Sanchita Balachandran
Bio
Sanchita is associate director and conservator of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum and senior lecturer in the department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Since 2008, she has taught courses related to the technical study and analysis of ancient objects, and the history, ethics and practice of art conservation. She first became interested in the technology of ancient Greek ceramics through an undergraduate course She co-taught with potter Matthew Hyleck in 2015 called Recreating Ancient Greek Ceramics. Her current research investigates the technical and sensory “signatures” the ancient makers of Greek ceramics left on their objects. She began her rapport with Getty through a Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internship while a college student, a Getty Graduate Internship for antiquities after she completed her conservation training, and most recently, a Getty Conservation Institute scholarship in 2017.
