About me
Dr. Cancy Chu is a Paper Conservator at the National Museum of Australia. She was the inaugural Fulbright-National Archives Heritage Science Fellow at the National Archives and Records Administration, USA. She has a research focus on modern book and paper materials, as demonstrated by publications on stone paper, plastics in archives, and plastic-covered notebooks. She holds a PhD on the conservation of plastics in paper-based collections (2023) and a Master of Cultural Materials Conservation specialising in Works on Paper (2017), both from the University of Melbourne, Australia; and a BA in Studio Art from Reed College, USA (2015). She has worked as an Assistant Conservator at the State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, as well as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Master of Cultural Materials Conservation at the Grimwade Centre. She owes her interest in book and paper conservation to formative internships at State Library Victoria in Melbourne, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the National University of Singapore Museum in Singapore.
