The Kelsey Museum looks forward to welcoming Henrike Florusbosch as its new chief administrator in October. She previously managed the e-Health and Artificial Intelligence program (e-HAIL), a joint strategic initiative between the College of Engineering and the Medical School at the University of Michigan that connects and supports AI and health experts in developing multidisciplinary, externally funded research projects.
Henrike received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with potters, blacksmiths, and other endogamous groups in Mali. She also received a U-M graduate certificate in museum studies, which included an internship at the National Museum of Mali and community-engaged heritage work in Ghana.
After teaching for a few years in the Anthropology Department at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Henrike returned to U-M to manage the African Studies Center within the International Institute, before joining e-HAIL. She currently serves as a co-lead of the staff-led Grant Development Network and previously supported the e-Health and GenAI-research task forces in the Medical School’s Office of Research.
Welcome, Henrike!
