Kimberly Glassman

BFA (Concordia), MSt (Oxon), PhD (Queen Mary University of London & Kew Gardens)

College roles

Postdoctoral Affiliate

University roles

Research Associate: Botanical Collections, Fitzwilliam Museum

Biography

Kimberly Glassman is the Research Associate for the Botanical Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge University Herbarium, a PDRA position with the Collections-Connections-Community (CCC) Natural History Humanities Initiative. Her PhD research at Queen Mary University of London and Kew Gardens investigated the history of transatlantic exchanges of knowledge between Canadian and British botanists in the long nineteenth-century with special interest in highlighting the work of women within Kew's archives and herbarium. Kim obtained an MSt in History of Art & Visual Culture from the University of Oxford working with the Pissarro Family Archives at the Ashmolean Museum to investigate Camille Pissarro's use of Chevreul's optical mixture theory. Kim received a BFA in History of Art & Psychology at Concordia University in her hometown of Montreal, during which time she founded a research residency, Diversifying Academia at Concordia (2018). Kim has published on the history of women in botany in the journal of Nineteenth Century Gender Studies (2022), on Indigenous knowledge communicated through colonial botanical publications in the Holotipus journal (2025), and on how to read nineteenth-century Floras, which will be published in the Library and Information History joint special issue with Archives of Natural History journal (forthcoming December 2025).