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

3737fd6f-ea07-4b6f-92be-4650b8725302 Adam DiBattista Hirsch Fellow American School of Classical Studies at Athens Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Adam DiBattista (PhD, UCLA) is an archaeologist researching objects made from animal materials in the Greek world, as well as the ivory trade in the Mediterranean during the Iron Age. Most recently, Adam was the Hirsch Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He is also in the early stages of a project using ZooMS to analyze ivory production waste from the site of ancient Methone to better understand its origin. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Seminar Series - December 2022 Seminar Series Presenter Archaeological Perspectives on Worked Animal Materials in the Greek World Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6ae33d3b-a39d-4728-81ab-dd57edc1e8fe Rozelle Greyling Student, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Rozelle Greyling holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2021) and recently (2024) graduated cum laude from the University of Pretoria’s MSocSci Heritage and Cultural Sciences, (Heritage Conservation) programme. This pioneering programme, the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, has provided Greyling with a unique platform for her research on the conservation of fluid-preserved cadaveric collections, which include archaeological, anatomical, and pathological wet specimens. Greyling’s research aims to address the significant gaps in the knowledge of fluid preservation techniques in Africa, to contribute to the preservation and conservation of fluid-preserved collections in the fields of Medicine and Zoology. Her research aims to advance the understanding of these preservation methods and ensure the continued integrity and longevity of these invaluable collections within the broader context of heritage conservation. ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Round Table - July 2024 Round Table Presenter ABM Round Table - July 2024 Has anyone come across any existing studies or research specifically addressing lipid profiling in natural history collections, and what are the potential implications and applications of lipid profiling in these collections? Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

5eca56c6-b091-4559-a4fb-4d5df870cf16 Ludovico Geminiani PhD student Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy Como, Italy Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Ludovico Geminiani obtained his Master degree in Chemistry at Università degli Studi dell’Insubria (Como, Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Laura Rampazzi, with the thesis “Analytical study of the materials of Japanese samurai armours”. He is actually attending the Ph.D. Program in Chemical and Environmental Sciences at the same university. His research project is focused on the decay behavior of Japanese artistic materials. He presented at international conferences about Heritage Science and published papers in international peer-review journals. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Poster Presenter Study on the formation of calcium oxalate on stone materials and on Japanese lacquer Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

072a45b2-e2b4-4a95-a819-a752b0225d2b Alister Sutherland Postdoctoral Researcher The GLOBE Institute University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Cultural Heritage Initiatives (2014-2019), Stefan Simon prioritized the advancement of sustainable conservation strategies triggered by global climate change and the green museum debate, and questions of conservation documentation, authenticity and access in the digital age. Between 2001 and 2005 he led the Building Materials Section at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles. Simon is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute, and has been recognized with Honorary Professorships at X ́ian Jiaotong University, China, and the Technical University Berlin. He has co-authored and published more than 150 articles on the preservation of cultural heritage. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6353cefa-e279-42fc-b31f-f08b53406302 Kate Wight Tyler Conservator Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS