Dr Tiffany Jenkins is a writer, cultural historian and broadcaster. She is the author of the acclaimed Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There, described in the Sunday Times as, ‘An outstanding achievement, clear-headed, wide-ranging and incisive.’ She is also the author of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority, and editor of Political Culture: Soft Interventions and Nation Building. She’s a former honorary fellow in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and a former visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics. Her BA is in art history, her PhD in sociology.
Jenkins wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series ‘A History of Secrecy’ and ‘Contracts of Silence’, about the rise of non-disclosure agreements, and has appeared regularly as a critic on Radio’4 Saturday Review and Front Row. She hosts the Behind the Scenes at the Museum podcast. Her opinion pieces have appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, the Financial Times, The Spectator, and the Scotsman – where she was a weekly opinion columnist.