Past Conservation Guest Scholars

A component of Conservation Guest Scholars
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2024–2025

  • Medhanie Andom, Senior Urban Planner and Director, Asmara Heritage Project Office, Central Region Administration, Eritrea

  • Jigna Desai, Professor, Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India

  • Cass Fino-Radin, Founder and Lead Conservator, Small Data Industries, New York

  • Terry Little, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria

  • Elena Lucchi, Senior Researcher, University of Pavia, Italy

  • Camilla Mileto, Professor, Department of Architectural Composition, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

  • Amanda Pagliarino, Head of Conservation and Registration, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Australia

  • Luiz Souza, Professor, Center of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

  • Kararaina Te Ira, Independent Scholar, Wellington, New Zealand

  • Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares, Professor, Department of Architectural Composition at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

2023–2024

  • Yael Alef, Scientific Manager, National Cultural Heritage Inventory Project, Israel Antiquities Authority

  • Giorgio Buccellati, Professor Emeritus, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Marie Dubost, Conservator in Private Practice, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, France

  • Cornelius Holtorf, Professor of Archaeology and UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

  • Stephen Kelley, Architect and Structural Engineer, Oak Park, Illinois

  • Bertrand Lavédrine, Professor, Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris

  • Barbara Lubelli, Associate Professor, Department of Architectural Engineering and Technology, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands

  • David Saunders, Conservation Scientist and Independent Scholar, Hertfordshire, England

  • Aga Wielocha, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute Materiality in Art and Culture, Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland

2022–2023

  • Kate Clark, Adjunct Researcher, Western Sydney University, Australia

  • Rachel Jackson, Principal and Company Director, GML Heritage, Canberra, Australia

  • Karen Mack, Founder and CEO, LA Commons, Los Angeles, California

  • Eduardo Luis Rodríguez, Independent Scholar, Havana, Cuba

  • Deborah Schorsch, Conservator Emerita, Department of Objects Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  • John Stewart, Independent Scholar, United Kingdom; formerly Senior Building Conservation Advisor, Historic England

  • Jørgen Wadum, Specialty Advisor Dutch and Flemish Art, Nivaagaard Collection, Nivå, Denmark

2021–2022

  • Alison Rose Jefferson, Independent Scholar, Los Angeles, California

  • Jill Sterrett, Independent Scholar, Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin

2020–2021

  • Clemencia del Pilar Vernaza, Independent Scholar, Morges, Switzerland

  • Pia Gottschaller, Senior Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom

  • Marilyn Kaplan, Independent Scholar, Albany, New York

  • Anita Quye, Senior Lecturer, Conservation Science and Head of History of Art, University of Glasgow, Scotland

  • Henri Van Damme, Independent Scholar, Olivet, France

2019–2020

  • Susanna Caccia Gherardini, Full Professor of Restoration, Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

  • Anica Draganić, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

  • Silvia Fernández Cacho, head of the Cultural Landscape Laboratory, Andalusian Historical Heritage Institute, Seville, Spain

  • David Gole, Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  • W. Brent Seales, Professor and Chair, Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington

2018–2019

  • Darius A. Arya, CEO and co-founder, American Institute for Roman Culture, Italy

  • Jonathan Ashley-Smith, Independent Scholar, United Kingdom

  • Nancy J. Bell, Department Head, Collection Care, The National Archives, Kew, and Visiting Researcher, Northumbria University, United Kingdom

  • Giancarlo Buzzanca, Head of Web & Informatics Development, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Rome

  • Stephen J. Farneth, Founding Principal, Architectural Resources Group, San Francisco

  • Olga Gago Muñiz, Senior Conservator, Santiago Cathedral Foundation, Spain

  • Stavroula Golfomitsou, Senior Lecturer, Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

  • Mario Eduardo Santana Quintero, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

2017–2018

  • José Rodrigues, Independent Scholar, Portugal

  • Glenn Wharton, Clinical Associate Professor of Museum Studies, New York University

  • Mary Kerrigan, Independent Scholar, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  • Paulo Lourenço, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal

  • Mona Jimenez, Associate Arts Professor and Co-Associate Director, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, New York University

  • Katharine Whitman, Photograph Conservator, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

2016–2017

  • Sanchita Balachandran, Curator/Conservator, Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, Baltimore

  • Tami Clare, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Portland State University, Oregon

  • Hanna Hölling, Teaching Fellow, History of Art and Material Studies, University College London

  • Hossam Mahmoud Mahdy, Independent Scholar, United Kingdom

  • Jongseo Park, Senior Researcher, National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejeon, South Korea

  • Angela Rojas, Professor, School of Architecture, Havana, Cuba

  • Christina Wallace, Senior Architectural Conservator, The Presidio Trust, San Francisco

2015–2016

  • Alain Colombini, Independent Scholar, Marseilles, France

  • Margaret Holben Ellis, Eugene Thaw Professor of Paper Conservation at the Conservation Center Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

  • David Hallam, Independent Scholar, Australia

  • Maria Isabel Hernandez Llosas, Independent Scholar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Colm Murray, Independent Scholar, Ireland

  • David Saunders, Independent Scholar, United Kingdom

  • Thea Van Oosten, Independent Scholar, Amsterdam

  • Elizabeth Vines, Independent Scholar, Australia

2014–2015

  • Thordis Eva Kristina Arrhenius, Professor, Architectural History and Conservation, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway

  • Jon Allison Brewer, Paintings Conservator, Royal Household of the United Kingdom, Windsor, England

  • John Andrew Escarsega, Research Chemist, Team Leader for Coating Research Group, US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland

  • Susanne Grieve, Director of Conservation/Teaching Instructor, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

  • Anna Laganà, Independent Scholar, Amsterdam

  • Frank Matero, Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

  • Ralph Scott Wiegandt, Assistant Director, Conservation Education, George Eastman House International Museum of Photograph and Film, Rochester, New York

2013–2014

  • David Bourgarit, Head of the Metal Group, Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, Paris

  • Francesca Merrick Esmay, Conservator, Panza Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

  • Filiz Kuvvetli, Senior Conservator, The Art Conservation Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Ruven Lucio Saravana Pillay, Research Scientist, Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, Paris

  • Paul Schwartzbaum, Independent Scholar, Venice, Italy; formerly Senior Technical Advisor and Conservator for Museum Construction and Overseas Exhibitions, Guggenheim Foundation

  • Marianne Elizabeth Webb, Conservator, Webb Conservation Services, British Columbia, Canada

  • Gregory Cyril Young, Independent Scholar, Sydney, Australia

2012–2013

  • Lynn Pamela Campbell, Conservator, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand

  • Neil McKerrow Thornton Jackson, Professor of Architecture, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

  • Katarina Kristianova, Professor, Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Bratislava, Slovakia

  • Marina Pugliese, Director, Comune di Milano, Museo del Novecento, Italy

  • Donald Shelby Sale, Preventive Conservation Manager, Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton, United Kingdom

2011–2012

  • James Ashby, Independent Scholar, Ottawa, Canada

  • Tharron Bloomfield, Independent Scholar, Melbourne, Australia

  • Stephen Hackney, Independent Scholar, United Kingdom; formerly The Tate, London

  • Yvonne Shashoua, Senior Researcher, National Museum of Denmark

  • Heather Viles, Professor, Oxford University, United Kingdom

2010–2011

  • Thalia Kennedy, Independent Scholar, United Kingdom; former Director, Turquoise Mountain Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture, Kabul, Afghanistan

  • Ian MacLeod, Executive Director, Collections Management and Conservation, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia

  • Tim Winter, Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Sydney, Australia

  • Dorji Yangkii, Independent Scholar, Thimphu, Bhutan

2009–2010

  • Dina D'Ayala, Senior Lecturer, University of Bath, United Kingdom

  • Roy Stephen Berns, R. S. Hunter Professor in Color Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Center for Imaging Science, New York

  • Monique Fischer, Senior Photograph Conservator, Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, Massachusetts

  • Daniela Pinna, Scientist, Opificio Delle Pietre Dure, Florence, Italy

  • Michael Taylor, Cultural Resources Manager and Historic Architect, US National Park Service, Santa Fe, New Mexico

  • Christina Young, Senior Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom

  • Ronald Van Oers, Program Specialist, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Paris, France

2008–2009

  • Richard Mackay, Partner, Godden Mackay Logan, Canberra, Australia

  • Christian Ost, Dean, ICHEC Brussels Management School, Belgium

  • Lassana Cissé, Head, Cultural Mission of Bandiagara, Mali

  • Silvio Zancheti, Professor, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

2007–2008

  • Nancy Odegaard, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson

  • Marcelle Scott, Professor, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, University of Melbourne, Australia

  • Franziska Frey, Professor, School of Print Media, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

  • Véronique Vergés-Belmin, Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques, Paris, France

  • Zhang Yanhua, National Research Center for Historic Cities, Shanghai, China

2006–2007

  • Gilberto Artoli, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Milan, Italy

  • Brian Egloff, Professor, Heritage Studies, University of Canberra, Australia

  • Sophia Labadi, Project Coordinator, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Paris, France

  • John Fidler, Conservation Director, English Heritage, London, United Kingdom

  • John McElhone, Photograph Conservator, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

  • Bertrand Lavédrine, Director, Conservation Training Program, University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne

  • Maria Nuria Sanz, Program Specialist, Latin American and Caribbean Unit of the World Heritage Centre at UNESCO, Paris, France

  • Iwona Szmelter, Professor, Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

2005–2006

  • Mary-Lou Florian, Emeritus Research Associate and Conservation Scientist, the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada

  • Lorenzo Lazzarini, Professor of Applied Petrography, Department of Architectural History, Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy

  • Alan Phenix, Senior Lecturer, Conservation of Fine Art Department, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, United Kingdom

  • Henri Van Damme, Professor, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, Paris, France

  • Jan Wouters, Laboratory for Materials and Techniques, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (IRPA), Brussels, Belgium

2004–2005

  • George Okello Abungo, Heritage Planning and Management Consultant; former Director General, National Museums of Kenya

  • Maria Barbara Bertini, Director of State Archives, Milan, Italy

  • Ulrich Birkmaier, Conservator, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

  • Andreas Krase, Curator of the Hermann Krone Collection, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

  • Maria Pia Riccardi, Researcher, Mineralogy and Petrology of Ancient Artifacts, University of Pavia, Italy

2003–2004

  • Denis Byrne, Manager, Research Unit, Cultural Heritage Division, New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney, Australia

  • Gerhard Eggert, Head, Objects Conservation Study Program, Department of Cultural Heritage Conservation, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany

  • Jane Lennon, Adjunct Professor, Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

  • Alice Paterakis, Head Conservator, Agora Excavations and Museum, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece

  • Hans-Jürgen Schwarz, Research Scientist and Project Coordinator, North German Center for Material Science of Cultural Property, Hannover, Germany

  • Daniel Torrealva, Principal Professor, Department of Engineering, Catholic University of Peru, Lima

  • Isabelle Vinson, Editor in Chief, Museum International, Sector for Culture, UNESCO, Paris, France

  • Antoine Wilmering, Professor, Wooden Objects Conservation, Graduate Institute of Conservation of Cultural Relics, Tainan National College of Arts, Taiwan

2002–2003

  • Alicia García Santana, Senior Researcher, Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment, Havana, Cuba

  • Setha Low, Professor of Environmental Psychology and Anthropology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

  • Carl Pruscha, Chair, Architectural Design, Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

  • Aparna Tandon, Curator/Conservator, Amar Mahal Museum and Library, India

  • Koenraad Van Balen, Professor, R. Lemaire Centre for Conservation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

  • Albert Wiedemann, Lecturer, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

2001–2002

  • Mary M. Brooks, Head of Studies and Research, and Senior Lecturer, Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

  • Angel E. Cabeza, Archaeologist, Professor of Cultural Heritage Conservation, University of Chile, and Executive Secretary, Chilean Council of National Monuments

  • Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, Conservator of Historic Buildings, Historic Landmarks Office, Berlin, Germany

  • Catharina M. Groen, Conservation Scientist, Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, Amsterdam

  • M. Isabel Kanan, Architect, Instituto do Patrimônio Historico e Artistico Nacional (IPHAN), Florianópolis, and Lecturer, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil

2000–2001

  • Raquel Carreras, Laboratorio de Investigaciones, Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museología, Cuba

  • Leonardo Barci Castriota, Chair, Department of Architectural History and Theory, and Professor of Architecture, Minas Gerais Federal University, Brazil

  • Sharon Cather, Deputy Director, Conservation of Wall Paintings Department, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom

  • Giacomo Chiari, Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Scienze Mineralogiche e Petrologiche, Università di Torino, Italy

  • Thomas Learner, Conservation Scientist and Conservator of Twentieth Century Paintings, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom

  • Blanca E. Niño Norton, Architect, UNDP Voluntarios and University Francisco Maoruduin, Guatemala

  • Olga Pizano, Architect, Consultant in Cultural Heritage, Colombia

  • Eugenio Yunis, Head, Sustainable Development of Tourism, World Tourism Organization, Madrid, Spain

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