Robin Boast, Date of Birth
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historian
Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1956
Profession: historian of science
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Robin Boast
- Robin Boast (born 2 March 1956) is the Professor of Information Science and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Media Studies.
- Until the end of 2012 Boast was the Deputy Director and Curator for World Archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
- He teaches on Cultural Information Science, Neo-colonial information governance, and the history and sociology of digitally and collecting.
- He has been a Visiting Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, a Scientific Advisor for several EU projects, and was the Director of the Virtual Teaching Collection Project.
- Boast has worked in museums in the US and Britain for over 30 years, specializing in museum access, classification and documentation, especially around diverse knowledge communities.
- Through a program of historical, theoretical and practical inquiry, his research explores forms of informed, collaborative and critical access to museum spaces and collections.
- Boast is currently working with many indigenous communities around the world that seek to enable and re-centre the many dimensions of local knowledge expertise within the academy – research informed by the critiques of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Post-colonial studies, Indigenous Studies and collaborative developments in e-Science.
- He has worked for several years on an international research project which subjects the museum and the academy to the ethnographic gaze of indigenous partners to de-centre the ownership and control of research of indigenous patrimony.
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- Boast has worked with source community museums and heritage organizations with Ramesh Srinivasan and James Enote, primarily at the A:shiwi A:wan Museum & Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico (USA).
- Most recently, Boast has been involved with repatriation and archiving projects with the Office of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement, Flinders University.
- His recent book projects include The Machine in the Ghost: Digitality and its Consequences, as well as an ongoing book project on Digital Information.
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