Specialization • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Europe • Global
Affiliation • Penn Museum

Jessica is interested in the study of both ancient and modern materials and their modes of deterioration. While at the Penn Museum she has researched and published on inorganic and organic consolidate for ancient Egyptian limestone, and the reconstruction of an ancient Egyptian Palace.

Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Global • Middle East • Pacific
Affiliation • Penn Museum

I am interested in improving treatment efficacy as well as the examination on of objects using multi -modal imaging, X-radiography, and microscopy.

Specialization • Conservation • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Pacific
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Kecia Fong is a heritage conservation educator and practicing professional who specializes in heritage conservation theory, history, and practice with a research focus on the technical and socio-political dimensions of conservation work in postcolonial societies and the global heritage arena particularly as they intersect issues of civil society, governance, and development.

Specialization • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Global
Affiliation • Penn Museum

The care and conservation of museum collections must incorporate and prioritize people-centered and community-engaged work.

Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Africa • Europe • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Specialization • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Pacific
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Diagnostic thinking and sustainable environmental management for preventive conservation of fixed and movable cultural heritage.

Specialization • Museums
Region • Africa
Affiliation • Penn Museum

My work has focused on ancient Egyptian literature, in particular Demotic Wisdom literature. I have been a part of the Penn Museum’s expeditions to Abydos (1997-present) and Saqqara (1992-2007). Recent research projects have included the history and significance of materials in the Penn Museum’s Egyptian collection.

Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Africa • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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I ask how ancient cultures of a global Mediterranean world ca. 350 BCE-500 CE talked, by means of images, things, structures, spaces and landscapes, both to themselves and with other groups among and beyond them (not least in conditions of empire); in today’s visually saturated environments and global contexts, that antiquity offers telling models for how art and artifice make, or challenge, identities in small worlds as in big ones.

Specialization • Museums
Region • Africa
Affiliation • Penn Museum
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Museum collections provide insight into colonial-era collecting, knowledge production, and display practices that inspire critical investigation of the political, social, and cultural contexts that made the accumulation of material culture possible.

Specialization • Conservation • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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I explore how and why heritage and preservation function in contemporary society — through work that spans history, theory and practice.

Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Asia • Europe • Global • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum • Weitzman School of Design
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I’ve always been drawn to social and political issues, whether in the past or indeed how the past comes to matter in the present. As famously said, the past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Africa • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum

Humanity in a prehistoric world of hunter-gatherers and how we became who we are today.

Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Africa • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • Penn Museum

Ancient Lives Still Speak, It Behooves Us All to Listen

Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Global • Middle East • Pacific
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Through DNA analysis, we reconstruct the origin and migration history of human populations, linking evidence from the past with present day understandings of ancestry, genealogy, and history.

Specialization • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Global • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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With my students, I aim to produce public-facing scholarship that explores the history of the Penn Museum, the University of Pennsylvania, and associated scholars and resources while drawing connections to the United States, the Middle East and North Africa, and the wider world!

Specialization • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Europe • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Weitzman School of Design
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Domenic Vitiello is a historian and urban planner whose research, teaching, and practice focus on migrant communities, sanctuary, community development, urban agriculture and community food systems.

Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Africa • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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Surprising new archaeological discoveries made through ongoing excavations at Abydos show how archaeological research continues to transform our understanding of the society and history of Ancient Egypt.

Specialization • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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My academic production includes teaching, researching, filmmaking, and curating.