Mary-Ann Middelkoop

Mary-Ann Middelkoop is a Researcher on the AHRC-DFG funded project ‘The Restitution of Knowledge’ at the Pitt Rivers Museum and a Junior Research Fellow in History of Art at St Peter’s College, Oxford. She completed her PhD ‘Art and Foreign Cultural Policy in Weimar Germany, 1917-1933’ in History at the University of Cambridge in 2019. She has previously worked as a researcher at the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, London, and contributed to the development of the ‘Looted Art 1939-1961’ database for the National Archives in Kew Gardens. Prior to becoming a Researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Mary-Ann was a Teaching Associate in the Department of History of Art, Cambridge, and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, with the project ‘A Thing of Fragile Beauty: Porcelain, War and Plunder in the Third Reich, 1939-1949’. Her current research focuses on German modernism, Nazi- and colonial-era looted art and artefacts, and she has a continuing interest in the study of Raubkunst and restitution in comparative perspective. She is co-convenor of the DAAD funded workshop series ‘Thinking Provenance, Thinking Restitution’.