Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
Cardiff University
Welsh Crucible 2024
Jasmine obtained her BA degree in History at the University of Cambridge and subsequently completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Before taking up a lectureship in Early Modern History at Cardiff University in 2020, she was Fellow in History at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and a postdoctoral researcher for a Leverhulme Trust-funded project at the University of Kent. Jasmine’s research explores sixteenth-and seventeenth-century urban culture and society, specifically artisanal and ‘scientific’ networks and built environments. Her publications and methodology are fundamentally interdisciplinary, bridging historical, architectural, and material culture studies. Her first book, Crafting Identities (MUP, 2021), was short-listed for the 2022 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, awarded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Throughout her career, Jasmine has also been closely involved with public-facing museum and gallery exhibitions which engage audiences with themes of early modern science, technology, and material cultures.