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Ashley Remer

Position: PhD Student, ICCR
School and/or Centres: Humanities Research Centre

Email: ashley.remer@anu.edu.au

Qualification:

M.A. (1st class Honours), History and Criticism of Art, University of Auckland B.A., History and Criticism of Art, Florida State University

Website: https://anu-au.academia.edu/AshleyRemer

Ashley E. Remer is an art historian, curator, and creative producer. She is the founder and Head Girl of Girl Museum, the first and only museum in the world dedicated to girlhood. She is currently researching representations of girls in fine arts and museums.

art history, public art museums, feminism & gender studies, anthropology of girlhood

Remer, A. and Tiffany Rhoades Isselhardt, Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021.

Remer A. Guest Editor, ‘Gender and Museums,’ [special Issue] Museum International, Vol. 72, Issue 1-2, 21 August 2020.

Remer, A. ‘Lesson Object as Object Lesson: The Embroidery Sampler,’ Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Volume 12, Number 3, Summer, 2019.

Remer, A. ‘#MeToo and Girlhood in Art,’ Girl Museum (blog), January 5, 2018.

Remer, A. and Tiffany Rhoades, ‘Girl Museum: Using the Digital to Showcase Feminism in Cultural Heritage’, Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption and Change, MuseumsEtc. Ltd: Edinburgh, 2017.

Remer, A. ‘Girl Museum: An International Project’, Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol.3 No.2, March 2011.

  • Society for the History of Children and Youth (2016- present)
    • Co-Chair of Girls’ History and Culture Network
  • International Girls’ Studies Association (2016- present)
  • International Association of Women’s Museums (2015- present)
    • Board member (2021-present)
  • American Alliance of Museums (2009- present)

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