Directory
Jessica Betz Abel
Project Conservator, Penn Museum
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.
Marie-Claude Boileau
Director, Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Asia • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • Penn Museum
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I am an archaeological scientist focusing on ceramics and interested in the relation between maker and material, and in the mobility of knowledge, people and objects.
Kim Bowes
Professor, Classical Studies
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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The Roman 90%: I work on the economic and social lives of poor and working Romans.
Ann Blair Brownlee
Associate Curator, Mediterranean Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Europe
Affiliation • Penn Museum
I am interested in objects and the stories they tell.
Margaret M. Bruchac
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Americas • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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I have long been committed to critical studies of Indigenous and colonial histories, material culture, archives, museums, and anthropological practice. My current research examines early collaborations among Indigenous informants and anthropological collectors that influenced the distribution and interpretation of cultural heritage in museums.
Gareth Darbyshire
Gordion Archivist and Researcher, Mediterranean Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • Penn Museum
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My work is comprehensively centred on the archaeology and history of Gordion—capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Phrygia, and one of the pre-eminent settlements of the Middle East in the first millennium BCE. My principal research interest is the character, use, and deposition of metalwork in the momentous and often troubled times of the Iron Age, Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman periods, to illuminate continuities and transformations in food production, craft and building work, transport, warfare, and ritual practices.
Tessa De Alarcon
Project Conservator, Penn Museum
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.
Ivan Drpić
Associate Professor, History of Art
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Drpić’s current research explores the formation of subjectivity in the premodern world through the lens of material culture.
Kecia Fong
Lecturer, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
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.
Peter Gould
Consulting Scholar, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Americas • Europe
Affiliation • Penn Museum
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My specialization is in the nexus among archaeological and museum practice, organizational management and governance, economic theory, and the manner in which markets and government properly aligned can protect rather than undermine the future of heritage.
Campbell A. Grey
Associate Professor, Classical Studies
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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I explore the space where human populations encounter, engage with, and imagine the world around them, employing contemporary conceptualizations of risk and inequality to examine societal responses to uncertainty in the Late Roman world.
Sarah M. Guérin
Assistant Professor, History of Art
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Africa • Europe • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Jason T. Herrmann
Lecturer, Anthropology
Teaching Specialist for Digital Archaeology Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum
Ann Kuttner
Associate Professor, History of Art
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.
Sarah Linn
Research Liaison, Academic Engagement, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Europe
Affiliation • Penn Museum
My research examines how material objects were used in the creation and maintenance of group identity in the Aegean Bronze Age, particularly Minoan Crete. I focus on objects of adornment and the multigenerational use of communal tombs. I am also committed to making archaeology and museums accessible to a range of audiences through engaging exhibitions and programs.
Lynn Makowsky
DeVries Keeper of Collections, Mediterranean Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Europe
Affiliation • Penn Museum
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As Keeper of the Mediterranean collections, I am in charge of caring for and providing access to approximately 30,000 object. I currently serve on several museum committees, including the Acquisitions Committee, Collections Committee, KeEMu Committee, and Scientific Testing Committee.
Frank G. Matero
Professor, Architecture and Historic Preservation
Director, The Center for Architectural Conservation
Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Heritage
Region • Americas • Europe • Global • Middle East
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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One definition of Preservation is it is the sum total of the ways in which the present maintains living contact with the past. To do that it must be both a physical and a social act. But we should remember it is also a ‘critical act’ in that observation, experience, reflection, and reasoning are essential to its practice.
Jeremy McInerney
Professor, Classical Studies
Specialization • Archaeology • Heritage
Region • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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I work across a range of topics related to the Greek World, from issues of landscape to identity and more. Currently I am working on hybridity as a distinctive mode of framing Greek interactions with the wider Mediterranean world.
Lynn Meskell
Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor, Anthropology, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Curator, Penn Museum
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.
Stephen R. Phillips
Curatorial Research Coordinator, Egyptian Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Africa • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • Penn Museum
Ancient Lives Still Speak, It Behooves Us All to Listen
C. Brian Rose
James B. Pritchard Prof. of Mediterranean Archaeology
Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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Brian Rose has served as the President of the Archaeological Institute of America, and is currently President of the American Research Institute in Turkey, having excavated for the last 40 years at Aphrodisias, Troy, and Gordion, which he now directs.
Theodore G. Schurr
Professor, Anthropology
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.
Thomas Tartaron
Associate Professor, Classical Studies
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Americas • Asia • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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My research is about bringing multiple ways of knowing to intriguing questions of the ancient past.
Domenic Vitiello
Associate Professor, City Planning and Urban Studies
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.
Chantel White
Teaching Specialist, Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum
Adjunct Faculty, Anthropology
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Americas • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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My research focuses on the tiny discarded items of everyday life – bits of seeds, nut shells, and other plant materials – to reconstruct the foods and beverages that people consumed in the past, and to better understand the specialized knowledge and skillsets of those who produced daily meals.
Mantha Zarmakoupi
Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture, History of Art
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Zarmakoupi has a multidisciplinary training in Classical Archaeology, History and Theory of Architecture, and Architecture and Engineering and brings together in her research and teaching a specialist’s knowledge of ancient architecture, classical archaeology and underwater archaeology with an interdisciplinary approach to classics and archaeology.
Tukufu Zuberi
Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations
Professor, Sociology and Africana Studies
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.