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Special topics in art history
Course: Special topics in art history > Unit 1
Lesson 1: A beginner's guideARCHES advisors
Project directors
Beth Harris (Executive Editor, Smarthistory)
Steven Zucker (Executive Editor, Smarthistory)
Steven Zucker (Executive Editor, Smarthistory)
Project strategy advisors
Jeffrey Becker (Visiting Assistant Professor, Binghamton University)
Senta German (Dual Associate Professorship, Departments of Art & Design and Classics, Montclair State University)
Senta German (Dual Associate Professorship, Departments of Art & Design and Classics, Montclair State University)
Project advisors
Lisa Ackerman (Executive Vice President, World Monuments Fund)
Susan Ackerman (President of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College)
Neville Agnew (Senior Principal Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute)
Douglas Boin (President, SAFE, Saving Antiquities for Everyone)
Neil Brodie (Senior Research Fellow, Trafficking Culture Project)
Robin Coningham (UNESCO Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, Durham University)
Tess Davis (Executive Director, The Antiquities Coalition)
Steven Fine (Director, Center for Israel Studies and Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University)
Bernard Frischer (Professor of Informatics, Indiana University)
Morag Kersal (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, DePaul University, Affiliated Faculty, Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law, DePaul College of Law)
Salam Al Kuntar (Lecturer Assistant Professor – Classics, Rutgers University)
Elizabeth Lee (Managing Director, Cyark)
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (Assistant Professor and Deputy Executive Officer, MA in Liberal Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
David Penney (Associate Director for Museum Scholarship, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution)
Matthew Postal (Research staff, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission)
Sarahh Scher (Visiting Lecturer, Emerson College)
Erin L. Thompson (Assistant Professor, Art Crime, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York)
Kristina Van Dyke (independent scholar, previously Director, Pulitzer Arts Foundation)
Susan Ackerman (President of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College)
Neville Agnew (Senior Principal Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute)
Douglas Boin (President, SAFE, Saving Antiquities for Everyone)
Neil Brodie (Senior Research Fellow, Trafficking Culture Project)
Robin Coningham (UNESCO Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, Durham University)
Tess Davis (Executive Director, The Antiquities Coalition)
Steven Fine (Director, Center for Israel Studies and Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University)
Bernard Frischer (Professor of Informatics, Indiana University)
Morag Kersal (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, DePaul University, Affiliated Faculty, Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law, DePaul College of Law)
Salam Al Kuntar (Lecturer Assistant Professor – Classics, Rutgers University)
Elizabeth Lee (Managing Director, Cyark)
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (Assistant Professor and Deputy Executive Officer, MA in Liberal Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
David Penney (Associate Director for Museum Scholarship, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution)
Matthew Postal (Research staff, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission)
Sarahh Scher (Visiting Lecturer, Emerson College)
Erin L. Thompson (Assistant Professor, Art Crime, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York)
Kristina Van Dyke (independent scholar, previously Director, Pulitzer Arts Foundation)
Backstories author
Naraelle Hohensee (Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Smarthistory)
Want to join the conversation?
- these are the only people in the world that work to protect these panting(5 votes)
- no , there must be a team of other people(9 votes)
- Why do they need to protect the paintings?(3 votes)
- Paintings need to be protected because they are fragile. Many are also old.(6 votes)
- What is this for?(4 votes)
- Recognition. :D(2 votes)
- so how do we now how old the bowl is(0 votes)
- I have no idea how old the bowl is.
But, archeologists do!(3 votes)
- why do i need to learn this? someone please tell me.(1 vote)
- Why did you pick the course?(1 vote)