Conservation
Archaeology
Conservation Center Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty
Institute Lecturers for the Conservation Center
2015 – 2016
Samantha Alderson
Conservator, American Museum of Natural History
Sarah Barack
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, SBE Conservation
Lisa Bruno
Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Lucy Commoner
Head of Conservation, The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Joan Breton Connelly
Professor of Classics, New York University; Director, Yeronisos Island Excavations (Cyprus)
Corey D’Augustine
Paintings Conservator
Jean Dommermuth
Senior Paintings Conservator, ArtCare NYC; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Maria Fredericks
Drue Heinz Book Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Jakki Godfrey
Associate Conservator of Objects, Brooklyn Museum
Alexis Hagadorn
Head of Conservation, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University
Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dr. Marco Leona
David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator, Kress Program in Painting Conservation, Conservation Center
Katherine Sanderson
Assistant Conservator, Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Marjorie Shelley
Conservator in Charge, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Steven Weintraub
Conservator and Proprietor, Art Preservation Services
The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
2015 – 2016
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator
Rita Berg
Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation (Fall 2015)
Shan Kuang
Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation (Spring 2016)
Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies
Dr. Cathleen Baker
Conservation Librarian and Exhibit Conservator, University of Michigan Library
Additional Conservation Consultants Villa La Pietra
2015 – 2016
Pam Hatchfield
Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson Head of Objects Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jack Soultanian
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Deborah Trupin
Textile Conservator, NY State Bureau of Historic Sites
George Wheeler
Director of Conservation Research, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Guest Lecturers to the Conservation Center
2015 – 2016
Cynthia Albertson
Albertson & Nunan, Inc.
Rachael Perkins Arenstein
A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
Julie Arslanoglu
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Robert Baines
Emeritus Professor of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Sanchita Balachandran
Curator/Conservator, Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum and Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Julie Barten
Conservator of Collections and Exhibitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Eric Breitung
Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Susan Brown
Assistant Curator of Textiles, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Rebecca Capua
Associate Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Federico Caró
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Silvia Centeno
Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gerald Cloud
Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
Pete Dandridge
Objects Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Margo Delidow
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, Whryta Contemporary Art Conservation
Joyce Denney
Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Michael Duffy
Paintings Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Barbara Duggan
Textile Conservator
Beth Edelstein
Objects Conservator (part-time), Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Conservator and Co-Proprietor, SBE Conservation
Rebecca Fifield
Preservation Services, NY; Chair of AIC’s Collection Care Network
Michael Gallagher
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Leslie Ransick Gat
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, Art Conservation Group
Pamela Hatchfield
Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson Head of Objects Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Emily Holmes
Columbia University Libraries, Preservation and Digital Conversion Division
Larry Kanter
Chief Curator and Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery
Lucretia Kargère-Basco
Conservator, The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Stephen Koob
Conservator, The Corning Museum of Glass
Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar
Assistant Director for Collections, National Museum of the American Indian
Amy Lemaire
Urban Glass
Judith Levinson
Director of Conservation, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History
Laurence T. Maloney
Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
Jennifer Mass
Affiliated Associate Professor, Art Conservation Department, University of Delaware Art
Laura McCann
Conservation Librarian, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, NYU Libraries
Kelly McHugh
Objects Conservator, National Museum of the American Indian
Michael Alan Miller
Associate Paintings Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Denyse Montegut
Associate Chair and Professor, Fashion and Textiles Studies Department, School of Graduate Studies,
Fashion Institute of Technology
Ellen Moody
Assistant Projects Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Michael Morris
Assistant Objects Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rachel Mustalish
Paper Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Linda Nieuwenhuizen
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, Give Me A Break Conservation Services
Elizabeth Nunan
Conservator and Proprietor, Albertson & Nunan, Inc.
Vicki Parry
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Irma Passeri
Associate Conservator of Paintings, Yale University Art Gallery
Hugh Phibbs
Former Coordinator of Preservation Services, NGA Washington
Joanna Phillips
Associate Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Jerry Podany
Former Senior Conservator and Head of the Department of Antiquities Conservation, J. Paul Getty Museum
Serra Pradhan
Partner, Marianne Boesky Gallery
Dwight Primiano
Photographer
Megan Randall
Sculpture Conservation Fellow, Museum of Modern Art
Matt Reiley
Head Conservator, Central Park Conservancy
Meredith Reiss
Collections Manager, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carolyn Riccardelli
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dr. Ashok Roy
Chief Scientist and Director of Scientific Research, The National Gallery, London
Anna Serotta
Objects Conservator
Batyah Shtrum
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, SBE Conservation
Suzanne Siano
Paintings Conservator and Proprietor, Modern Art Conservation
Reba Fishman Snyder
Associate Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum
Karen Stamm
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Donna Strahan
Head of Conservation and Scientific Research, Freer & Sackler Galleries
Melissa Tan
Objects Conservator, Chemistry Ph.D. student, NYU
Norman H. Tennent
Emeritus Professor (Conservation Science), University of Amsterdam
Leanne Tonkin,
Fellow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lindsey Tyne
Assistant Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum
Anna Wall
Collections Specialist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brian Weissman
Brooklyn Metal Works
Glenn Wharton
Clinical Associate Professor, Museum Studies, New York University
Dr. George Wheeler
Director of Conservation Research, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Conservation Center
Lecturers & Afilliated Faculty
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013-2014
2012-2013
2011-2012
2010-2011
Contact the Institute
Building Hours
Contact Information
If you wish to receive information on our upcoming events, please subscribe to our mailing list.