Position: Senior Curator, Research Department
About
Joanna is a historian and art historian interested in monarchical history of the 17th-21st centuries. In particular, she has studied the construction of a visual image for the monarchy and court through the palaces and royal gardens, as well as by members of the royal family, courtiers and palace employees, especially women. Much of her scholarship is grounded in HRP’s Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection. She has led numerous exhibition and research projects at Kensington Palace, including ‘Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of the Modern World’, and ‘Queen Victoria’s Self-fashioning: Curating the Royal Image for Dynasty, Nation and Empire’. She has been Chair of DATS and the Costume Committee of ICOM, and now works for HRP part-time.
Select publications
Marschner, J., Queen Caroline: Cultural Politics at the Early Eighteenth Century Court (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014)
Marschner, J., (ed.), Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of the Modern World (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017)
Marschner, J., Homans, M., Munich, A., (eds.), Queen Victoria’s Leaves of the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, and More Leaves. Critical edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)