Dr. Ana Baeza Ruiz

Biography

Ana Baeza Ruiz is a Lecturer in Museology at the University of Manchester. She has a background in museum studies, art history, and cultural studies. Ana completed her collaborative PhD at the University of Leeds in conjunction with the National Gallery in London, focusing on cultural democratization in mid-twentieth-century public art museums in Britain. Her research interests converge at the intersection of feminism and visual culture within museums, emphasizing contemporary participation and activism in public arts organizations. She investigates the role of social justice pedagogies and the histories of feminist art practices in the UK from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ana's ongoing work includes a post-doctoral fellowship at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, where she explores the visual construction of the concept of 'girl' in the museum's late-nineteenth-century collections. She co-founded Journals Pandemic, a project that archives personal experiences during the Covid-19 crisis. Ana was also a participant in the BBC New Generation Thinkers Scheme, where she has developed radio programs centered around feminist art and activism. Her forthcoming monograph, 'Modernisation Democracy: Twentieth-Century Art Museum Britain: Museum Everyone?' will be published by Routledge in 2025/2026.

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