Glenn Adamson is Head of Graduate Studies in the Research Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He holds degrees in Art History from Cornell University (BA) and from Yale University (PhD). His research interests include 20th century craft and design, furniture and ceramics in England and America in the 17th and 18th centuries, and decorative arts theory. Dr Adamson was previously curator at the Chipstone Foundation, and in that capacity prepared exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum and taught Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His previous full-length publications include: Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World (MIT Press), and the co-authored Wood Turning in North America Since 1930 (Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia/Yale University Art Gallery). His writings have also appeared in journals such as American Furniture, Ceramics in America, and American Craft, and in exhibition catalogues for the Racine Art Museum, the Elvehjem Museum of Art, the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, and other museums.

2006 publications include: 'A Doctrine of Handy-Crafts' (an essay for the volume Questions of Practice: What Makes A Great Exhibition?, published by Pew Exhibitions Initiative); 'The American Arcanum: Bonnin and Morris Porcelain and the Alchemical Tradition' (an essay in the journal Ceramics in America); and Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets Its Maker (a full-length study published by the University of Wisconsin Press).

Research activity at the moment is focused on the development of the new Journal of Modern Craft (Berg Publictions; co-edited with Tanya Harrod and Edward S. Cooke, Jr., and set to launch in March 2008); the publication of a book entitled Thinking Through Craft (Berg Publications); and contributions to the 2007 V&A exhibition Out of the Ordinary: 21st Century Craft.

Claire Leighton