Dr Jenny Newell

British Museum (Assistant Curator)

National Museum of Australia (Research Fellow)

American Museum of Natural History (Pacific curator)

Australian Museum

Principal Investigator, Constantine S. Niarchos grant, ‘Analysing the Dynamics Shaping Community Responses to Climate Change in the Marshall Islands’, collaborative project, based at the American Museum of Natural History, New York and with University of the South Pacific (Majuro) and the Marshall Islands Conservation Society.

Co-Principal Investigator, ‘Conceiving biocultural resilience with Pacific island communities: bridging disciplines, language, and culture’, Catalysing New International Collaborations grant, National Science Foundation. Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, AMNH.

Principal Investigator, ‘Rethinking Home: Climate change in New York and Samoa’, Museums Connect grant, US State Department, in collaboration with the Museum of Samoa.

Humanities Travelling Fellowship, Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Australian Bicentennial Fellowship, Menzies Centre, London.

Leah Lui-Chivizhe and Jenny Newell, "Reflections: On Engagements with Indigenous Knowledges and Collections’, in J. A. Halvaksz II and J. A. Bell (eds), in Naturalist Histories: Making nature, knowledge and people in Oceania, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu March 2024, pp. 261-268.

Jenny Newell and Zehra Ahmed, ‘Taking Action on Climate Change and Sustainability at the Australian Museum’ in Nick Merriman, Museums and the Climate Crisis, Routledge, 2024, pp. 173-184.

Andrea Spencer-Cooke, Jenny Newell, Carmel Reyes and Zehra Ahmed, ‘Exhibiting Leadership: A proven approach to ambitious and effective action on sustainability and climate change by Australian museums’, Museum International, Volume 75 Issue 1-2.

‘Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Workers in a Climate-Changing World’, Stemming the Tide: Global Strategies for Sustaining Cultural Heritage through Climate Change, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington DC, USA, 2021, pp.87-98.

'The Australian Museum and Climate Change’, Australian Museums and Galleries Association Magazine, Vol 29 (2), Winter 2021, pp.41-43.

‘Climate museums: powering action’, Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, 35:6, 599-617, DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2020.1842236

C. Muir, K. Wehner and J. Newell (eds) Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis, NewSouth.

‘Creative Collaborations: Museums Engaging with Communities and Climate Change’, chapter in W. Leal et al. (eds), Addressing the Challenges in Communicating Climate Change across Various Audiences, Springer online.

‘Weathering Climate Change in Samoa: cultural resources for change’, chapter in Tony Crook and Peter Rudiak-Gould (eds), Appropriating Climate Change: Pacific Reception of a Global Prophecy, De Gruyter Open.

‘New Ecologies: Pathways in the Pacific, 1760s-1840s’, in Kate Fullagar and Michael McDonnell (eds), Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age 1760-1840, Johns Hopkins University Press.

J. Newell, L. Robin and K. Wehner (eds), Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change, Routledge Environmental Humanities.

B. Lythberg, J. Newell and W. Ngata, ‘House of Stories: The Whale Rider at the American Museum of Natural History’, Museum and Society, vol. 13, no. 2 (March 2015), pp. 188-214.

‘Old Objects, New Media: Historical collections, digitization and affect’, Journal of Material Culture, special issue, vol. 17, no. 3 (Sept 2012), p. 287-306.

Pacific Art in Detail, British Museum Press. Also editions published by Te Papa Press and Harvard University Press.

Trading Nature: Tahitians, Europeans and Ecological Exchange, University of Hawaii Press.