Susanne Küchler

Küchler studied anthropology at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, graduating with a magister degree in 1981.^[1] She then moved to England to undertake postgraduate research in anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.^[2] She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1985, and her doctoral thesis was titled "Malangan, Exchange and Regional Integration in Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea ".^[1][2]

For the 1985/1986 academic year, Küchler held a "New Blood Lectureship" in the history of non-western art at the School of Art History and Music of the University of East AngliainNorwich, England.^[1] From 1986 to 1990, she was an assistant professor of anthropology and art history at the Johns Hopkins UniversityinBaltimore, United States.^[1] In 1991, she joined University College London (UCL) in England as a part-time lecturer in anthropology.^[1][3] She was a full-time lecturer from 1994 to 1999, a senior lecturer from 1999 to 2002, and a Reader from 2002 to 2006.^[1] In September 2006, she was appointed Professor of Material Culture.^[3][2] In 2010, she became head of the Department of Anthropology at UCL; she will hold the post for ten years.^[3]

Küchler has been co-editor of the Journal of Material Culture since 1996.^[3][1] She was co-editor of Art in Translation from 2008 to 2012.^[1]

Küchler has undertaken fieldworkonNew Ireland, Papua New Guinea and on the Cook Islands.^[2] From 2000 to 2004, she was principal investigator of "Clothing the Pacific: The Study of the nature of Innovation".^[1]

In 2016, Küchler was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[4]

• Forty, Adrian; Küchler, Susanne, eds. (1999). The Art of Forgetting. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1859732861.
• Kuchler, Susanne (2002). Malanggan: art, memory and sacrifice. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1859736173.
• Küchler, Susanne; Were, Graeme (2005). Pacific Pattern. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0500512371.
• Küchler, Susanne; Miller, Daniel, eds. (2006). Clothing as material culture. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1845200664.
• Küchler, Susanne; Eimke, Andrea (2009). Tivaivai: The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0714125800.
• Tilley, Christopher; Keane, Webb; Küchler, Susanne; Rowlands, Mike; Spyer, Patricia (2013). Handbook of material culture. London: SAGE. ISBN 978-1446270561.
• Drazin, Adam; Küchler, Susanne, eds. (2015). The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials and Society. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1472592644.