Dr.Neil Ewins has been Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, since 1987, and studied History of Art and Design at Staffordshire University, graduating in 1990. Immediately after graduating he was appointed as an Assistant Keeper of Ceramics at the Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent. This was followed by a variety of lecturing posts, teaching Art and Design History. He has been a full-time lecturer since 1998.
Neil’s main area of research has been ceramic history. His MPhil research examined Anglo-American ceramic trade. In order to complete his MPhil research he was awarded a grant from the Spode Factory Trust to research at the Museum of American History and Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Periods of study have also been spent at the Winterthur Museum and Library, Delawa
more...Dr.Neil Ewins has been Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, since 1987, and studied History of Art and Design at Staffordshire University, graduating in 1990. Immediately after graduating he was appointed as an Assistant Keeper of Ceramics at the Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent. This was followed by a variety of lecturing posts, teaching Art and Design History. He has been a full-time lecturer since 1998.
Neil’s main area of research has been ceramic history. His MPhil research examined Anglo-American ceramic trade. In order to complete his MPhil research he was awarded a grant from the Spode Factory Trust to research at the Museum of American History and Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Periods of study have also been spent at the Winterthur Museum and Library, Delaware.
Neil’s MPhil was published as “Supplying the Present Wants of Our Yankee Cousins” Staffordshire Ceramics and the American Market 1775-1880, City Museum & Art Gallery of Stoke-on-Trent, in 1997, followed by a second edition in 1998. Other publications have included a chapter on ‘Comparative Studies in Anglo-American Ceramic Demand’ in Ceramics in America (ed. by Robert Hunter), Chipstone Foundation, University Press of New England, Hanover and London, Autumn 2008. Neil has lectured in Toronto, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, and at a variety of UK conferences. He was made an Honorary Member of the ceramic Flow Blue Collectors’ Club, USA, after presenting two lectures in July 2002 at their Chicago Conference.
His PhD research at the University of Sunderland was concerned with the impact of globalization on the UK ceramic industry. On the basis of this research Neil was invited to speak on ‘UK ceramic manufacturing strategy, marketing and design’ at the 22nd Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Symposium on ‘Mobility of Design’, Decorative Arts and Design, New York on 26th-27th April 2013. In addition, he has been invited to lecture on ‘UK Ceramic Marketing in response to Globalization’ at The Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing (CHARM) held at Copenhagen, June 2013. His paper was included in their 2013 Proceedings.
A chapter on ‘The Formation of American Ceramic Preferences’ by Neil Ewins in Ceramic Identification in Historical Archaeology: the View from California, 1822-1940, edited by Rebecca Allen, Julia Huddleson, Kimberly Wooten and Glenn Farris, Society for Historical Archaeology, USA, was published in 2013.
