f15ee3ad-b7ec-4960-a259-65fcc5974952 Rachel Popelka-Filcoff Rock Art Australia Minderoo Chair in Archaeological Science School of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science University of Melbourne Melbourne VIC, Australia Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff is the Rock Art Australia Minderoo Chair in Archaeological Science in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she leads archaeological science initiatives. Her laboratory integrates advanced characterisation, spectroscopic and statistical-driven approaches, in the areas of archaeological science and cultural heritage chemistry. Her research is to the first comprehensive integrative characterisation of Australian natural mineral pigments on cultural heritage materials by several analytical methods to answer questions about provenance and composition. Rachel holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Missouri as a National Science Foundation Research Fellow and completed a National Research Council postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Archaeomicrobiology: Method Development to “Fingerprint” Australian Cultural Ochre Using Microbial DNA Analysis Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

444568eb-9c2f-413b-aae3-9859490848f9 Ruth Ann Armitage Professor of Chemistry Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Ruth Ann Armitage is a Professor of Chemistry at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She studied chemistry at Thiel College and obtained her Ph.D. at Texas A&M University in analytical chemistry. Her broad research interests include determining the composition and age of rock paintings and developing ambient ionization mass spectrometric methods for characterizing dyes in ancient textiles. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Member Conversations - June 2024 Member Conversations Host An interdisciplinary conversation: Chemistry and anthropology insights on wild silk materials Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b25be158-bdc8-4518-8913-52662c4e0e1d John Stuart Gordon Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Curator of American Decorative Arts Yale University Art Gallery Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter New Thoughts on Old Wood: Differentiation of Mahogany and Its Look-alikes Using Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Co-authored with Richard Hark. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

9cde2529-5224-4b21-9ed6-082f5544caea Christine Giuntini Conservator Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Christine Giuntini is a conservator working with the collections of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the MMA. Her research interests focus on fibrous organic materials, their associated attachments, fabrication/construction methods, and mount-centered display in lieu of invasive treatments. She has written or contributed to technical and historical essays and articles on West and Central African woven textiles, and Peruvian archeological featherworks and textiles. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter Identifying trace amounts of brain-tissue-specific proteins in emulsion cured animal skins Co-authored with Aleksandra Popowich. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

3deffd66-ee2e-430e-b26a-54cb99e16a7b Monica Grasty Laboratory Assistant Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Monica Grasty is the laboratory assistant at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, where she supports research operations among their laboratory groups. She also works as a research technician on grant work in collaboration with the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry department at Yale, utilizing her background in molecular biology and genomics to recover and characterize trace amounts of DNA from historical objects. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

36586ecf-0bf2-41cc-9ba1-5f041cad1bf8 Angélica Isa-Adaniya Conservator Hamilton, ON, Canada Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Angélica Isa-Adaniya completed her MA studies in Conservation of Archaeological and Museum objects at the University of Durham (UK) in 2015. For several years, she worked for the Pachacamac Museum (Ministry of Culture of Peru) in Lima, Peru. She is a Community Board Member for Conserv and Website Coordinator for Art Bio Matters. She currently volunteers as the Vice Chair of the Talent and Participation Committee for the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC). She is also associated with The Research Center for Heritage Conservation in Lima. One of Angélica’s primary interests is sharing information about museum conservation with the wider public through a small website where she publishes articles, guides, and courses for non-specialists and students. She has an active social media presence promoting the wider visibility of heritage conservation on Instagram, Twitter, and Linkedin. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Website Coordinator Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

f71c86d6-4c27-4395-ac43-b7069bed77ec Jesse Meyer President Pergamena Parchments & Leathers Inc. Montgomery, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Jesse Meyer hails from a long line of leather tanners extending back to at least 1550. He has been working at his family's tannery, Pergamena Parchments & Leathers Inc. since 1997. He has spent the last 30 years rediscovering and refining the process of parchment making as well as doing hands-on leather production. He's had the opportunity to consult on and/or produce parchment and leather for projects in fields such as fashion and leather goods, interior and furniture design, manuscript conservation, medieval studies and anthropology, sustainable farming and manufacturing and modern leather manufacture. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

f3812ce4-f0d8-4bf8-b917-6640b2874be4 Andrew Miranker Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Yale New Haven, CT, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Andrew Miranker is a full professor with 25-years of experience running a federally funded biomedical basic research lab. He is also an active, hands-on experimentalist with personal projects and lab-based undergraduate teaching of his own design in DNA engineering. In 2013, his undergraduate course, two years in the making, was the first of its kind at Yale. This was an elective biology lab, jointly taught with conservators and Yale’s History of Art Department. Since that time, his contacts with conservators and curators at Yale’s museums, particularly the Yale University Art Gallery, has only increased. In 2017, he chose to spend his sabbatical in the laboratory of team member Aniko Bezur, 10 miles from his own lab, in the Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. It was this daily contact with the Bezur lab while on his sabbatical that cemented his desire to contribute scholarship to this field. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

d126ca55-65f9-45b0-a139-3da8129e8172 Catherine Matsen Scientist Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library University of Delaware Winterthur, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Catherine Matsen is a conservation scientist at Winterthur Museum’s Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory (SRAL). She performs analysis on all types of decorative arts in the museum collection using a variety of spectroscopic and chromatographic instrumental techniques. Catherine teaches in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), and guest lectures about the role of materials analysis in material culture research to students in the Winterthur Program in America Material Culture (WPAMC). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

5fc00f92-0e8d-4f8d-a84f-2333162b29d7 Sven Haakanson Jr., Ph.D. Curator of North American Anthropology, Burke Museum, Professor and Chair in Anthropology, University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Sven Haakanson Jr., Ph.D., is Sugpiaq from Old Harbor, Alaska. He is a Curator of North American Anthropology at the Burke Museum, Professor and Chair in Anthropology at the University of Washington. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2007), the Museums Alaska Award for Excellence (2008), the ATALM Guardians of Culture and Lifeways Leadership Award (2012), and his work on the Angyaaq led it to be inducted into the Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame (2020). He joined the University of Washington in 2013. He engages communities in cultural revitalization using material reconstruction as a form of scholarship and teaching. His projects have included the reconstruction of full-sized angyaaq traditional open boats from ethnographic models, as well as halibut hooks, masks, paddles, and traditional processing of bear gut into waterproof material for clothing. He has and continues to collaborate with the community of Akhiok at their Akhiok Kids camp since 2000. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Invited Speaker Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS