CV highlights
A detailed copy of my CV is available on request.
Please contact henrietta.hammant@cantab.net.
Museum work
National Maritime Museum
2022 - Present
Family Program Freelancer (Science Engagement). Developing and delivering accessible science engagement sessions.
Cambridge Corn Exchange 2025 - 2026
Archival Research Manager. Leading a team of volunteers to research the Cambridge Corn Exchange and curating the subsequent exhibition to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
University of Nottingham
2025 - 2026
Impact Fellow. Researching Nottingham City Museums and Galleries' collection of Indigenous North American ethnographic objects to facilitate future repatriation efforts.
Polar Museum, Cambridge
2022 - 2024
Collections Manager. Caring for collections both physically and through facilitating both internal and external research.
Polar Museum, Cambridge
2019 - 2020
Collections Project Cataloguer with responsibility for temporary exhibitions. Leading on a co-curated exhibition on climate change with 12 teenagers from across the UK and curating the Institute's centenary exhibition.
Itsanitaq Museum, Manitoba
2018
Assistant Curator. Collections management and research in this museum which specialises in Inuit art and heritage.
Guest speaking, consultancy and teaching
Arts Society
2025 - Present
Accredited Lecturer. I provide lecturers for Arts Societies on a range of topics from 'The History of Inuit art in the Canadian Arctic' to 'Art in Antarctica'.
Harper Collins
2025
Polar Consultant. I provided expert advice on the use of bone as a raw material among Inuit cultural groups for a children's publication. (Forthcoming).
Fairbrother Lecture, University of Reading
2025
Invited Lecturer. Each year the Graduate School of the University of Reading selects one doctoral student to present their research to a public audience in central reading. My lecture was entitled: Memory and Myth in Antarctic Exploration.
Thames Hudson
2026
Polar Consultant. I provided expert advice and extensive fact checking for the children's publication: Race to the South Pole: a two-sided story.
Norwegian Cruise Lines
Feb 2025 - March 2025
and
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Antarctic History Lecturer. I researched and wrote five lecturers on a variety of topics relating to Antarctic history, which I presented without notes to audiences of up to 500 people. Following onboard evaluation, my passenger ratings were 93%, with an overwhelming majority of guests rating me as 'Excellent'.
SCAR Humanities and Social Sciences Conference
June 2023
Invited Lecturer. I presented the paper: The Heroic Age and ‘hero objects’: the impact of museum practice on the interpretation of British Antarctic explorers of the early twentieth century.
​I was also invited to participate in the roundtable: Curating Antarctica: Shaping histories and futures through ideas, art, and objects.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Reading
Spring 2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant. I lead seminars and marked coursework for the module 'Contemporary World Cultures - An Introduction to Social Anthropology'.
I also gave a guest lecture entitled: Heritage and Nationalism for the third year undergraduate module 'The anthropology of heritage and cultural property'.
Education
University of Reading
2020 - 2025
PhD in the Anthropology of Heritage. My thesis considered explorers of the 'Heroic Age' of Antarctic exploration and asked how museum practice influences the way that they are understood by the public. Ultimately, I sought to uncover a more diverse network of actors involved in the success of these historic expeditions and their memorialisation in British museums.
University of Oxford
2015 - 2016
MSc in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology. Dissertation fieldwork in the photographic archive of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
University of Cambridge
2012 - 2015
BA in Archaeology and Anthropology. Dissertation fieldwork in Utqiagvik, Alaska.