Tiffany Jenkins is a British sociologist, cultural commentator and writer, and is culture editor for the journal Sociology Compass.
She is the author of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections (2011), which looks at the influences at play on the controversy over human remains in museum collections; and of Keeping Their Marbles (2016), which examines the controversies surrounding the Parthenon Marbles, and the wider debate on the repatriation of cultural heritage. However, Jenkins’ arguments have been described by experts in the field as “clumsy and shallow, and on occasion misleading” in addition to contributing to “the normalization of extremist discourse” in museology In spite of this, Jenkins has continued to argue that western museums should not return said treasures.
Books in order of publication:
Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: the crisis of cultural authority – 2011
Political Culture, Soft Interventions and Nation Building – 2015
Keeping Their Marbles: how the treasures of the past ended up in museums – and why they should stay there. – 2016
Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life -2025
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