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The Queer Museum: Radical Inclusion and Western Museology, by Erica Robenalt. Routledge, 2024. REVIEWED BY KAL DEMAREE  Authored by Erica Robenalt, The Queer Museum: Radical Inclusion and Western Museology delves into the role of LGBTQ+ representation and queer theory in museums. Through ideas of queer utopia and futurity, the book combines queer theory and museology …

Effective Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism Practices for Museums, edited by Cecile Shellman. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022  REVIEWED BY KINZIE WHIPPLE  In recent years, many museums have made countless efforts to appear more inclusive, but most of these efforts have fallen flat. Museum diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion consultant, Cecile Shellman, took the …

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins, by Stefanos Geroulanos. New York, N.Y.: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2024.  REVIEWED BY G. BUTLER  “Theories of our past have shaped history and the world we live in today”: this is the thesis of NYU history professor Stefanos Geroulanos in his book The Invention …

Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck, by Natali Pearson. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2022.  REVIEWED BY THOMAS CRAIN  In Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck, Natali Pearson, an underwater cultural heritage researcher, attempts to untangle the many lives, contexts, and controversies of the Belitung shipwreck by exploring it through a unique contextual framework. The …