Emily Hyatt is a project coordinator of Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia. She also manages project’s website and supports the team in the reporting process. Emily holds a master of arts in Transcultural Studies from the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) within the focus area of Visual, Media, and Material Cultures, as well as a bachelor of arts in art history and visual art at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Previously, Emily worked for several years as a museum educator in New York City, where she developed and taught didactic workshops on social history, folklore, and craft at museums and historic sites. She has also worked as a student assistant at Heidelberg University’s chairs of Visual and Media Anthropology, the Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens (Institute of East Asian Art History), and the Heidelberg Centre for Cultural Heritage (HCCH). Her research interests include global circulations in art and craft history, transcultural entanglements in early modern Italy, and the use of plants, animals, and minerals in sixteenth-century artisanal production.