Museum Studies Faculty
Erin A. Anderson
Erin A. Anderson is an art conservator specializing in objects conservation based in New York City. She currently acts as the website coordinator for Art Bio Matters, a community of curators, conservators, and scientists interested in the research of biological materials in cultural heritage. Read More
Suse Anderson
Suse Anderson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at The George Washington University. Prior to joining GW, Anderson was Director of Audience Experience at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she was responsible for creating a seamless and positive experience of the BMA for visitors to the museum and across its digital platforms. Read More
Jacquelyn Clements
Jacquelyn Clements holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from the Maryland Institute College of Art, an MA in Classics from Florida State University, and a PhD in the History of Art from Johns Hopkins University. Read More
Mary Coughlin
Professor Coughlin has an interest in the conservation challenges of contemporary museum collections, particularly with respect to plastic. Before coming to GW full time, she worked for five years in the Objects Conservation Laboratory of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History where she conserved objects as diverse as FDR’s leg braces and Star War’s C-3PO and R2-D2. Read More
Theresa A. Esterlund
Theresa Esterlund’s professional career spanned 30 years as an educator and leader at the Smithsonian Institution, private museums, art centers, and both public and private schools.Read More
Jakki Godfrey
Jakki is an art conservator based in the NYC area. She was an Object Conservator at the Brooklyn Museum for 14 years, where she worked with fine and decorative art, historic, ethnographic and archaeological collections. Read More
Robert Horton
Bob Horton studied history at Brown, Ohio State and Yale, then started his archival career at the State Archives of Indiana.Read More
Rebecca Kennedy
With over 15 years of experience, Rebecca has worked with a variety of collections in storage and on exhibition. Read More
Tessa Lummis
Senior Collections Manager at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art; Museum Registrar, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum.Read More
Paula Lynn
Paula Lynn has worked in art museums for over twenty years and has served as the head of planning and evaluation for the National Gallery of Art since 2014.Read More
Lisa Palmer
While a graduate student at the George Washington University Museum Studies Program, Professor Palmer was a student of Marie Malaro. She now applies the same rigor to the collections management class that she co-teaches with Deb Hull-Walski. Read More
Laura Schiavo
Before joining the Museum Studies faculty in 2009, Professor Schiavo worked in museums in the DC area, including the City Museum, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, and the National Building Museum, where she curated Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s.Read More
Kathy Southern
For more than 35 years, Kathy Dwyer Southern has provided leadership in major museums, cultural and philanthropic organizations, associations and government in the Washington, Virginia and Maryland region.Read More
Max van Balgooy
Max A. van Balgooy is a national leader in historical interpretation and community engagement, with extensive experience in developing solutions in collaboration with diverse audiences, including volunteers, staff, trustees, residents, scholars, design professionals, business leaders, and elected officials.Read More
John Wetenhall
A museum director for over two decades, John Wetenhall served for nine years as Executive Director of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, leading a $150 million capital and endowment transformation.Read More
Zinnia Willits
Zinnia Willits is the Executive Director of the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) and former Director of Collections and Operations at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina.Read More
