Name: Kimberley Weir

Title: Research Fellow, Treatied Spaces Research Group, University of Birmingham

Location: UK

Pronouns: She/Her

Email address: k.l.weir@bham.ac.uk

Languages: English

Areas of research: Memory, commemoration, nineteenth and twentieth century United States and Philippine history

Biography: Kimberley Lustina Weir is a Knowledge Exchange Fellow in the Treatied Spaces Research Group at the University of Hull. Kim is extending the Impact agenda of TSRG’s collective externally funded awards globally; helping to build TSRG’s relationships with global education services providers, strengthening new international partnerships with significant museums, heritage institutes, charities and Indigenous bodies. Her research examines monument building, memorialisation and commemoration in colonial and postcolonial contexts. In 2022, she completed a PhD at the University of Nottingham. Her thesis, ‘“A Heritage of Freedom”: Monuments and the American Legacy in the Philippine Memoryscape, 1898-1978’, examined the impact of US colonial rule (1898-1946) on the Philippine memorial landscape. Kimberley also has an undergraduate degree in American and English Studies from the University of Nottingham, and a Masters in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester. She is Operations Director for the Association of Southeast Asian Studies.