Museums, transculturality, and the nation-state : case studies from a global context /

Susanne Leeb works as a professor of contemporary art at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. She is the cofounder (together with Beate Söntgen) of the program PriMus - Promovieren im Museum (PhD in Museums research program). Additionally, she is the cofounder of the book series »Polypen« at b_books, Berlin. Her research focusses on post-, anti-, and decolonial art histories, with a focus on contemporary art.
Nina Samuel works as a postdoctoral researcher at the »Matters of Activity: Image Space Material« Cluster of Excellence at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. An art historian and curator, she has been the program director of PriMus Promovieren im Museum. Her doctorate was sponsored by a scholarship from eikones - Center for the Theory and History of Images at the University of Basel, and she has held various research positions, including at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. Her research interests are image theory and the history of science, knowledge practices, contemporary curatorial strategies, and a material epistemology of the museum.