Annissa Malvoisin Post-doctoral fellow African Art Brooklyn Museum Previous Next New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 Annissa’s research specializes in Egyptology, Nubian archaeology, and Museum Studies. Her doctoral thesis investigates the ceramic production and trade industry during Meroitic Nubia and its potential far-reaching networks linking the Nile Valley to Iron Age West African cultures. She examines trade networks by identifying artistic similarities on pottery which she combines with piecing together the objects’ biography in order to better understand Nubian collections in North American museums. ​ ​ All members

Ashley Coutu Research Fellow Pitt Rivers Museum University of Oxford, UK Previous Next Oxford, UK MEMBER INFORMATION Poster Presenter 2021 Ashley Coutu is currently a Research Fellow at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Her background is as an archaeological scientist, and she primarily uses techniques and methods from biology and organic chemistry to understand archaeological materials. Her specialism is the use of stable isotope, ancient DNA, and proteomics analyses as applied to archaeological and museum collections of organic materials. She is particularly interested in method development in relation to the needs of museums for display and the care of objects in terms of their conservation. The geographical focus of her work is sub-Saharan Africa, and therefore most of her research is on the ivory trade, past and present, and the use of ivory as a raw material for crafting objects. Life histories of ivory objects in museum collections Read Abstract ​ All members

David Peggie Senior Scientist The National Gallery Previous Next London, UK MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 David obtained a Masters degree in Chemistry at The University of Edinburgh (2002) and then a PhD (2006) for research into the identification of dyes on historical textiles (in collaboration with the National Museum of Scotland). He joined the scientific department at the National Gallery, London, where he is now a Senior Scientist, using a variety of chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques for the characterisation of materials in support of conservation treatments and for the understanding of painting technique. ​ ​ All members

Vanessa Jones Assistant curator of dress and textiles Leeds Museums and Galleries Previous Next ​ MEMBER INFORMATION Team Presenter 2023 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. Victorian Parasols: Scientists, Artisans, Historians and Curators in Conversation Co-authored with Cordula van Wyhe. Read Abstract ​ All members

Sarah Fiddyment Postdoctoral Research Associate ERC Beasts to Craft Previous Next Cambridge, UK MEMBER INFORMATION Poster Presenter 2021 Dr Sarah Fiddyment received her BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2006, having completed three years of medical school and two years specialization in Biochemistry. Her MSc and subsequent PhD (awarded in 2011) were both completed at the same university, working in the field of proteomics in cardiovascular research. She moved to the University of York in 2012 after being awarded a Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellowship to focus on the protein analysis of parchments throughout history. During this time she developed a non-invasive sampling technique that has allowed her unprecedented access to thousands of parchment documents, helping to establish the emerging field of biocodicology. She was subsequently awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow continuing her biomolecular analysis of parchment through history. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Beasts 2 Craft ERC project at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge). A labour of love: Biocodicological analysis of a medieval birthing girdle Read Abstract ​ All members

Laura Cartechini Research Scientist Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM) – National Research Council (CNR) Previous Next Milan, Padova, Perugia, ITALY MEMBER INFORMATION Speaker 2018 Laura Cartechini received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Perugia in 1998. Her research activity is aimed at understanding the chemical and physical properties of art historical materials and relative degradation processes for diagnostic and conservation purposes. Immunodetection of proteins in paint media by ELISA and IFM Read Abstract ​ All members

David McFadden Retired; formerly Chief Curator and Vice President for Programs and Collections Museum of Arts & Design Previous Next New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2018 David Revere McFadden served as Chief Curator and Vice President for Programs and Collections at the Museum of Arts & Design from 1997 to 2013. McFadden has organized more than 120 exhibitions, including Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art, which brought together artists who use materials such as bones, insects, dead plants, fish, and seeds. ​ ​ All members

Catherine Matsen Scientist Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library University of Delaware Previous Next Winterthur, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 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). ​ ​ All members

Margaret Holben Ellis Eugene Thaw Professor Emerita Institute of Fine Arts New York University Previous Next New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Co-organizer 2018, 2021 Professor Ellis teaches the conservation treatment of prints and drawings and technical connoisseurship for art historians. She served as founding Director of the Thaw Conservation Center at the Morgan Library & Museum until January 2017. She is a Fellow and current President of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), a Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC), a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and an Accredited Conservator/Restorer of the Institute of Conservation (ICON). She was Editor for Philosophical and Historical Issues in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper (2014; Getty Conservation Institute); the 2nd edition of her book, The Care of Prints and Drawings appeared in 2017. ​ ​ All members

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