Kimberly Glassman
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Botanical Collections
Kimberly Glassman is the Research Associate for the Botanical Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge University Herbarium, a PDRA position with the Natural History Humanities Initiative. Kim obtained an MSt in History of Art & Visual Culture from the University of Oxford working with the Pissarro Family Archives at the Ashmolean Museum to investigate Camille Pissarro's use of Chevreul's optical mixture theory. Kim received a BFA in History of Art & Psychology at Concordia University in her hometown of Montreal, during which time she founded a research residency, Diversifying Academia at Concordia (2018). Her PhD research at Queen Mary University of London and Kew Gardens investigated the history of transatlantic exchanges of knowledge between Canadian and British botanists in the long nineteenth-century with special interest in highlighting the work of women within Kew's archives and herbarium.
Email: kg577@cam.ac.uk
“Deciphering Botanical Notation in William Jackson Hooker’s Flora Boreali-Americana (1829-1840),” Library & Information History joint special issue with Archives of Natural History (forthcoming December 2025).
“Decolonising the Flora: Indigenous Botanical Knowledge in Flora Boreali-Americana (1829-1840).” Holotipus rivista di zoologia sistematica e tassonomia, vol. 6 (1) (2025): 1-10. DOI: 10.5281/zonodo.15363163.
“Harriet Sheppard’s (1786–1858) Scientific Writings: Nineteenth-Century Canadian Periodicals in Transatlantic Print Culture,” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Issue 18.2 (2022). ISSN # 1556-7524.
“The Bifocality of Dance in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: An Analysis of Shakespearean Dance Adaptations,” Litinfinite Journal, Vol-3, Issue-1, (2nd July 2021): 22-30. DOI: 10.47365: 22-30.
- Postdoctoral Affiliate of Newnham College
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