Murielle Cornut, M.A.
Research Project Assistant
Murielle Cornut studied Cultural Anthropology and Art History at the University of Basel, earning her MA with a thesis on interpictoriality in Swiss expressionist caricatures. From 2021 to 2025, she worked as a project assistant in the interdisciplinary research project Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digital Image Archives (PIA) at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology in Basel. Her dissertation is being developed within the project and explores family photo albums as objects of knowledge, with a focus on digital materiality.
She previously worked in a textile collection of the Swiss silk industry and as an art mediator specializing in narrative arts such as graphic novels and caricatures.
She recently joined the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute as a research project assistant, where she is beginning work on the ‘Malandrini Collection’, comprising over 12,800 photographs and albums from c. 1850–1970.
- Vernacular photography and family photo albums
- History of women`s albums and scrapbooks
- Archiving and collecting as knowledge practices
- Digital materiality and the transformation of cultural heritage