Publications
Vibe Nielsen has published the findings of her research in English, French and Danish, in academic, peer-reviewed journals and anthologies for academic and broader audiences alike. Her first monograph, Palms and Prestige: Reproducing the Tropics in the Glasshouses of Copenhagen, is underway and will soon be published by Yale University Press. Its Danish version, Palmer og Prestige: Tropiske Reproduktioner i Københavns Glashuse, will soon be published by Aarhus University Press and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
In 2023, Vibe Nielsen co-edited and contributed to the Routledge-anthology Global Art in Local Art Worlds: Changing Hierarchies of Value, which is available to download Open Access. Praised for its ‘deeply researched case studies with reflections by some of the most eminent ethnographers and theorists working today’ (Thomas 2023), the anthology now also exists in a paperback version. Another co-edited anthology, Collecting and Classifying: How Museums of the Late-Nineteenth Century Shaped the Modern World, is underway.
Other highlights include the peer-reviewed journal articles Public Presentations of Plants: Colonial Legacies and Indigenous Perspectives in the Botanical Gardens of The Huntington, published by the Wiley-journal Museum Anthropology in 2025, and The Colonial Roots of Botany - Legacies of Empire in the Botanic Gardens of Oxford and Kew, which was published by Taylor & Francis in the Museum Management and Curatorship journal in 2023. In a little more than two years, the latter became one of the journal's most read articles of all times and has currently gathered nearly 8,000 views.
