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instructionsCONSERVATION CENTER FACULTY
FULL-TIME FACULTY
Michele
D. Marincola
Sherman Fairchild Chairman and Professor of Conservation
Conservator, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art (part-time), New York,
NY
Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra, New York University
MA in Art History and Advanced Certificate of Conservation, Institute of Fine
Arts, Conservation Center, New York University
BA, Ancient Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI
Dr.
Norbert S. Baer
Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Conservation
PhD, Physical Chemistry, New York University
MSc, Physical Chemistry, University of Wisconsin
BSc, Chemistry, Brooklyn College
Margaret
Holben Ellis
Eugene Thaw Professor of Paper Conservation
Director, Thaw Conservation Center, Morgan Library & Museum (part-time),
New York, NY
Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra, New York University
MA in Art History and Advanced Certificate in Conservation, Institute of Fine
Arts, New York University
BA, Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Dr. Hannelore Roemich
Associate Professor of Conservation Science
PhD in Chemistry, University in Heidelberg, Germany
Diploma in Chemistry, University Dortmund, Germany
INSTITUTE LECTURERS FOR THE CONSERVATION CENTER
These instructors teach courses in conservation, conservation science, and technical art history within the curriculum:
Conservation Science
James H. Frantz (aka Tony)
Research Scholar, The Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University
Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, NY
Christopher McGlinchey
Sally and Michael Gordon Conservation Scientist, Museum of Modern Art, New
York, NY
Objects Conservation and Technical Studies
Samantha Alderson
Associate Conservator, Conservation Department, American Museum of Natural
History, New York, NY
Drew Anderson
Associate Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Joan Breton Connelly
Professor of Fine Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, New York University
Director, Yeronisos Island Excavations (Cyprus), New York University
Pete Dandridge
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
Leslie Ransick Gat
Objects Conservator/Proprietor, Art Conservation Group, New York, NY
Ellen Howe
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
Judith Levinson
Head of Objects Conservation, Anthropology Division, American Museum of
Natural History, New York, NY
Linda Nieuwenhuizen
Objects Conservator in Private Practice, Give Me A Break Conservation Services,
Inc., Ocean Grove, NJ and Long Island City, New York, NY
Lisa Pilosi
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
Deborah Schorsch
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
Jack Soultanian, Jr.
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra, New York University
Richard Stone
Senior Museum Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Glenn Wharton
Research Scholar, Museum Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science and the Institute
of Fine Arts, New York University
Paintings Conservation
Jean Dommermuth
Paintings Conservator in Private Practice, New York, NY
Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra, New York University
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator, Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation,
Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Dorothy Mahon
Conservator, Paintings Conservation Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, NY
Suzanne Siano
Paintings Conservator in Private Practice, Brooklyn, NY
Special Projects Conservator, Department of Paintings Conservation, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, NY
Paper, Book, and Photograph Conservation
Reba Fishman Snyder
Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, Morgan Library & Museum, New
York, NY
Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, Sherman Fairchild Center for
Conservation of Works on Paper and Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, NY
Textile Conservation
Lucy Commoner
Head of Conservation/Senior Textile Conservator, Cooper-Hewitt National
Design Museum, New York, NY
Kathy Francis
Textile Conservator in Private Practice, Francis Textile Conservation LLC,
Summit, NJ
Elena Phipps
Senior Museum Conservator, Antonio Ratti Textile Conservation Center, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
GUEST LECTURERS FOR THE CONSERVATION CENTER
Academic Year 2007-2008 (Sept. 2007 – Aug. 2008)
The following instructors lecture on special topics within the conservation curriculum:
Paula Artal Isabrand
Objects Conservator, Conservation Department, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,
MA
Dr. Roy S. Berns
Richard S. Hunter Professor, Munsell Color Science Library, Chester F. Carlson
Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Matthew Cumbie
Associate Conservator Preparator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Meg Loew Craft
Senior Objects Conservator, Objects Conservation Department, Walters Art
Museum, Baltimore, MD
Jean-Francois de Laperouse
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
Terry Drayman-Weisser
Director of Conservation and Technical Research, Objects Conservation Department,
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Barbara Duggan
Collections Manager, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
Betty Fiske
Paper Conservator, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Winterthur, DE
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art Conservation Department, University of Delaware
at Winterthur, Winterthur, DE
Monica Griesbach
Conservator in Private Practice, Griesbach Studio, LLC, Panel Paintings
Conservation, New York, NY
Roger Griffith
Associate Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Anne van Grevenstein-Kruse
Director, Limburg Conservation Institute, The Netherlands
Alexis Hagadorn
Head of Conservation, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University,
New York, NY
Joan Jonas
Artist, New York, NY
Daria Kenyan
Conservator in Private Practice, Daria Kenyan Paper Conservation, New York,
NY
Dr. Robert J. Koestler
Director, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
DC
Stephen Koob
Conservator, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
John Krill
Senior Paper Conservator, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Winterthur,
DE
Adjunct Associate Professor, Art Conservation Department, University of Delaware
at Winterthur, Winterthur, DE
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro
Associate Director of Conservation and Research, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, NY
Founding Director, Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Harvard University
Museums, Cambridge, MA
Letizia Montalbano
Conservator, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence, Italy
Denyse Montegut
Associate Chair and Professor, Fashion and Textiles Studies Department,
School of Graduate Studies, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Rachel Mustalish
Associate Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Conservation of Works
on Paper and Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Dwight Primiano
Photographer, New York, NY
Carolyn Riccardelli
Associate Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
David Saunders
Keeper, Department of Conservation, Documentation and Science, The British
Museum, United Kingdom
Christian Scheidemann
Conservator in Private Practice, Contemporary Conservation, New York, NY
Kent Severson
Senior Field Conservator to the Excavations in Aphrodisias, Turkey
Consulting Conservator at Sardis Excavations, Turkey
Marjorie Shelley
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Conservation of Works on Paper
and Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Anthony B. Sigel
Associate Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Straus Center for Conservation,
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Anthony Snodgrass
Emeritus Professor in Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Classics, University
of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Milton Sonday
Freelance Textile Conservator, New York, NY
Donna Strahan
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
Karen Thomas
Assistant Paintings Conservator, Paintings Conservation Department, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
Carolyn Tomkiewicz
Paintings Conservator, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Julie Unruh
Associate Conservator, Conservation Department, American Museum of Natural
History, New York, NY
Dr. René Van Grieken
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Steven Weintraub
Conservator in Private Practice, Art Preservation Services, New York, NY
Dr. George Wheeler
Director of Conservation for the Historic Preservation Program, Columbia
University, New York, NY
Dr. Georgia Wright
Co-Director, The Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project
Mark Wypyski
Research Scientist, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
Lynda Zycherman
Conservator of Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
For information on the art history faculty, please see the
individual listings on the IFA web site.