Dr Philip Hatfield is Head of the Eccles Centre for American Studies and has held a range of curatorial posts at the British Library. He worked as Curator for Canadian and Caribbean Collections at the Library from 2010 and holds a doctorate in the history of Canadian photography, based on the Library's Colonial Copyright Photography Collection. He has also curated the Australasian and US Collections and held the post of Lead Curator for Digital Mapping.
Phil has published on Canadian photography and British social issues and has a wide range of interests based on the Library's collections. One of these interests, in the history of the North American Arctic, resulted in the recent exhibition 'Lines in the Ice: Seeking the Northwest Passage' and the subsequent book Lines in the Ice: Exploring the Roof of the World. He also curated the photography exhibition 'Canada Through the Lens' and will publish a monograph drawing from the Library's Canadian photographic collection with UCL Press in 2018.
