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 • Conservation • Museums
Region • Global
Affiliation • Penn Museum

I treat objects from around the world so that they are stable enough for display.

Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums
Region • Global
Affiliation • Penn Museum

Julia is an archaeological objects conservator currently focusing on monumental Egyptian architecture and stone sculpture.

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 • 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 • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Americas • Global
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Not until Black American contributions in our national history are revered and protected, will our nation revere and protect Black lives and Black humanity. We must elevate and preserve the remarkable stories and places that evoke centuries of BIPOC activism, achievement, and community.

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 • 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.

Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums
Region • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum

Over the past two decades, Patrick McGovern has pioneered the exciting interdisciplinary field of Biomolecular Archaeology which is yielding whole new chapters concerning our human ancestry both physical and cultural, medical practice, and of course what our ancient ancestors were eating and drinking.

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 • Conservation • Museums
Region • Global
Affiliation • Penn Museum

Alexis specializes in the conservation of archaeological and ethnographic materials, with research interests that currently include the ethics around the preservation of human remains, and identifying novel materials for the storage and display of museum collections.

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.

Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Asia • Middle East
Affiliation • Penn Museum

My current research centers on the origins of writing and the rise of the world’s first cities in southern Mesopotamia (Iraq); as the former director of the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute and now the Penn Museum, I have been involved in large-scale conservation and cultural heritage projects, particularly in the Middle East and Central Asia.