9b9f6866-0758-427b-8486-eb1f0b8badf5 Caroline Solazzo Museum Conservation Institute Smithsonian Institution Suitland, MD, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Solazzo has been a research scientist at MCI since 2017 and a research fellow since 2012. Her research is focused on the utilization of protein products in material culture and the development of proteomics methods for the analysis of ancient proteins in cultural heritage. She specializes in the characterization of keratin-based tissues and other textile fibers. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

853e5082-9a75-418f-8a96-8d2ac53a930d Hitomi Fujii Research Associate Scientist The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Hitomi Fujii holds a Ph.D. in chemistry applied to food residues in Roman Amphorae from Avignon University, France. She worked on the organic analysis of heritage objects from mainly Louvre Museum, at the Center of Research and Restoration of the French Museum (C2RMF) from 2018. In 2023, she joined the Met as a staff for Scientific Research Partnerships. Her research area is natural and synthetic organic materials with gas chromatography mass spectrometry and infrared spectrometry. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

654ce48a-5bcb-476a-9bf5-360a4ad69f70 Stephanie Hornbeck McCarter Chief Conservator Department of Anthropology Field Museum Chicago, IL, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Stephanie E. Hornbeck is McCarter Chief Conservator, Anthropology Collections, Field Museum. From 2010-2017 she was Director of Conservation, Caryatid Conservation Services, her private practice. From 2010-2012, as Chief Conservator, Smithsonian Haiti Cultural Recovery Project, she directed conservation recovery of cultural patrimony damaged in the 2010 earthquake. From 1998-2009, she was Conservator, National Museum of African Art. Stephanie’s research involves identification and regulation of ivory and intersections of conservation practice for indigenous material culture and contemporary art. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

e65c9667-fc1e-4c47-bf47-6d19f96706df Vanessa Jones Assistant curator of dress and textiles Leeds Museums and Galleries Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Vanessa Jones is a curator and lecturer of dress and textile histories and theories. She has worked within the heritage sector for a decade and has taught in higher education for the last two years. She is an expert in curatorial practice around diversifying narratives of eighteenth-century dress, with broader specialisms including sustainable practices of dress consumption and production, global networks of trade, decolonisation and women’s history. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter Victorian Parasols: Scientists, Artisans, Historians and Curators in Conversation Co-authored with Cordula van Wyhe. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6d8239b9-954e-466a-92c3-7ef1a4152bea Cecil Krarup Andersen The Royal Danish Academy Copenhagen, Denmark Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Cecil’s research focuses on painting’s technique, mechanical properties in paints and painting material including mechanical degradation related to climate control in museums/collections and the effect of structural conservation of canvas paintings. At present Cecil is involved with the Horizon2020 EU research and innovation project CollectionCare. The aim of this project is to create an integrated decision support system for small and medium size collections with regards to preventive conservation. This involves computer simulation of degradation scenarios for canvas paintings. Cecil is chair of the advisory board and member of the steering committee in this project. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter Non-traditional materials in the ground layer of paintings from the Danish Golden Age identified via MS-based proteomics Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

8ee51053-3f20-4a35-90ab-76ed1b2d69fb Nancy Turner Conservator of Manuscripts The J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, CA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Nancy Turner (B.A. Art History/Anthropology, Stanford Univ.; M.A. History, UCLA) has been responsible for the care of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of illuminated manuscripts since 1984. She specializes in the conservation treatment of parchment and painted illuminations, and publishes on the materiality of medieval manuscripts based on collaborative scientific research. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

8e55e854-b2de-4743-99fe-cbca772cc892 Emily Lynch Conservator for Special Collections Columbia University Libraries New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Emily is currently the Conservator for Special Collections at Columbia University Libraries. She received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in physics and art history and earned her MA from the Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University with a focus in Library and Archive conservation. Emily has held positions at the Morgan Library & Museum, the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, and Harvard Library’s Weissman Preservation Center, in addition to completing internships at several institutions, including the Folger Shakespeare Library, the New-York Historical Society, and the American Museum of Natural History. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

964921b2-3b25-453b-a1be-c0dec523fe38 Isabel Schneider Project Conservator Brooklyn Museum New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Isabel Schneider is a recent graduate of the UCLA/ Getty Conservation of Cultural Heritage MA program who recently accepted a project conservator position at the Brooklyn Museum. Previously, she has held conservation internships with the Brooklyn Museum, Arizona State Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Florissant National Monument, and the Israel Antiquities Authority. She has participated in archaeological excavations in Greece and Israel. Previously, she has worked as an artist, teacher, curator, and museum development officer. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Graduate Student Assistant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2023 Poster Presenter “Like” for Provenance Research and Conservation Treatment Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

af99383d-c2fa-401b-bc8d-4a630856057d Elizabeth Cleland Curator European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION At The Met since 2004, Elizabeth Cleland is curator of post-medieval European textiles. She has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles about historic European tapestries. She curated Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance (2017), co-curating Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry (2014) and Art at the Tudor Courts (2022). She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, receiving her MA and PhD as a British Academy scholar. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

7b20846a-225e-4035-8d1c-5025e8830534 Robin Fleming Historian Boston, MA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Robin Fleming is Professor of History at Boston College. She earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She writes and teaches Roman and early medieval history, migration and mobility, material culture, and historical archaeology. She is the author of Kings and Lords in Conquest Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Domesday Book and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Britain after Rome (Penguin, 2010), the Material Fall of Roman Britain (University of Pennsylvania, 2021), and has a book on dogs in Roman Britain forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She is currently working on a collaborative project investigating the early medieval cemetery at Alton, in Hampshire, U.K. The project aims to reevaluate the cemetery’s dating, material culture, and human remains. She was President of the Medieval Academy of America in 2023–24. She has been awarded a Guggenheim, has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and The Radcliffe Institute, and is a MacArthur Fellow. ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Roundtable Discussion - August 2024 Roundtable Speaker Perceptions of Human Remains - Continued Following the overwhelming response to our March 27th session. We are pleased to announce an upcoming online Roundtable discussion on the topic of human remains in museums, cultural centers, and religious spaces. This session will offer an opportunity to examine the ongoing ethical and practical challenges surrounding the display, handling, storage, treatment, and scientific analysis of human remains. It will also provide a space to share diverse institutional experiences and foster thoughtful dialogue across disciplines. 
Our goal is to generate actionable insights that can support professionals navigating these responsibilities, and to encourage a respectful, informed approach to working with human remains in varied contexts. We welcome participants from across the field to join us for what promises to be a meaningful and necessary conversation. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS