Duane Jethro is a junior research fellow at the Centre for Curating the Archive, based in the Michaelis School of Fine Art, at the University of Cape Town. His current project is a multiperspectival investigation of the loss and salvaging of the University of Cape Town Jagger Library and its collections after a devastating fire in April 2021. He is a graduate of the University of Utrecht, and has worked as a researcher at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage, CARMAH, at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and also held a Georg Forster Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral research fellowship between 2017 and 2019. His research interests include the cultural construction of heritage and contested public cultures, as well as intersections between museums, heritage, religion, the secular, and the sacred. He is the editor of the journal Material Religion and published his book Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power in 2020.