Angus Martin
PhD candidate/Guest Staff Member
- Name
- Dr. J.A. Martin
- Telephone
- 071 5271966
- j.a.martin@arch.leidenuniv.nl
Research
His main research interests are the history and culture of Grenada, particularly slavery and colonialism. He is the author of the A-Z of Grenada Heritage (Macmillan Caribbean, 2007), and Island Caribs and French Settlers in Grenada, 1498-1763 (Grenada National Museum Press, 2013), the latter based on his master’s thesis.
Within NEXUS, Mr. Martin is investigating the sustainability of small museums and heritage institutions in the Eastern Caribbean. He will examine the historical and changing role of museums/heritage institutions in the Eastern Caribbean, and to look at ways of enhancing their sustainability, particularly through addressing issues of ownership, management, training, relevance, innovation, support and interactions with their respective communities. He will use as a case study the state of Grenada and its two primary museums, the Grenada National Museum and Carriacou Historical Society Museum, to illustrate a possible path to sustainability through actions/steps that can render museums and other heritage institutions in the region relevant.
Curriculum vitae
John Angus Martin was born in the tri-island state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique. He holds a BS degree in Biological Sciences and a minor in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1986), MS in Agricultural and Applied Economics (1995) and MA in History (1999) from Clemson University, South Carolina. Since 2012 he has served as the Director/Curator of the Grenada National Museum in St. George’s, Grenada. He is also a part-time Lecturer in History/Caribbean Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences at St. George’s University, Grenada.
PhD candidate/Guest Staff Member
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Archaeology of the Americas
- Martin J.A. (4 October 2023), We navel-string bury here: Landscape history, representation and identity in the Grenada islandscape (Dissertatie, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Hofman C.L. & Kolen J.C.A., Boomert A.
- Hofman C.L., Martin J.A., Boomert A., Manem S.Y.P., Jacobson K.F. & Hoogland M.L.P. (2022), Reimagining Creolization : the deep history of cultural interactions in the Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles, through the lens of material culture, Latin American Antiquity 33(2): 279–296.
- Hofman C.L., Hoogland M.L.P., Boomert A. & Martin J.A. (2019), Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles: Indigenous Resistance, Material Transformations, and Diversity in an Ever-Globalizing World. In: Hofman C.L. & Keehnen F.W.M. (Eds.), Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas. The Early Americas: History and Culture no. 9. Leiden: Brill. 359-384.
- Ariese C.E., Con Aguilar E.O. & Martin J.A. (2015), Transforming Global Theory to Local Practice: Case studies from museums and education in the Caribbean. ICOM-ICTOP Annual Conference 14 October 2015 - 16 October 2015.
- Ariese C.E., Con Aguilar E.O. & Martin J.A. (2015), ICOM-ICTOP 14 October 2015 Workshop: Applying Global Theory to Local Practice. [other].