Emilia Epštajn obtained her BA in Anthropology and MA in Gender Studies at the University of Belgrade. She has developed as a curator primarily through her work at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade and is currently on the executive board of ICOM – Serbia. Recent projects and research-exhibitions dealt with feminist perspectives on archives, cultural heritage of the Non-Aligned Movement, decolonisation within the museum framework, as well as the history of African art collections, restitution and repatriation. Her writing has been published in exhibition catalogues and academic journals, and she also translates extensively in the field of museology, feminist and art theory. She was awarded the Reconstruction Women’s Fund “Žarana Papić” Stipend (2011) and is an alumna of the Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust (2007, UK) and the Open World Leadership Program (U.S. Congress, 2022).