Conville & Walsh

Dr Frances Larson is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Anthropology department at Durham University. She was previously with the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford, where she first came into contact with their famous shrunken heads. Last year she published a biography of Henry Wellcome, AN INFINITY OF THINGS, which drew wide acclaim. Her research focuses on how objects have shaped academic disciplines, institutions like museums, and individual people’s lives.