Affiliated Faculty and Museum Partners

Museum Studies Program Affiliated Faculty and Museum Partners

The MSP Affiliated Faculty are members of the University of Michigan faculty and staff who are actively involved in the Museum Studies Program as members of the MSP Steering Committee, participants in the MSP Proseminar, and/or instructors of Museum Studies cognate courses. Currently, the MSP Affiliated Faculty includes 72 individuals representing 27 different disciplines and 9 museums/libraries.

Hakem Al-Rustom Professor of Modern Armenian History, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Professor of History
Kelly Askew Professor, Department of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies; Chair, Department of Anthropology
Robert Bain Associate Professor of Education, Director Academic Program, Teacher Education, School of Education and Associate Professor of History
Ferran Barenblit Lecturer I, Romance Languages and Literature
Kira Berman Director for Education, Museum of Natural History
David Choberka Andrew W. Mellon Curator for University Learning and Programs, Museum of Art
Y. David Chung Professor, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design
Joe Cialdella Program Manager for Public Scholarship, Rackham Graduate School
James W. Cook Professor, Department of American Culture and Department of History
Suzanne Davis Associate Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Laura De Becker Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art, UMMA
Chris W. Dick Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Curator, Herbarium
Angela Dillard Professor, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Residential College; Chair, Department of History and Professor of History
David Doris Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, Department of Afroamerican & African Studies, and Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Geoffrey Emberling Associate Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Intermittent Lecturer in Middle East Studies
Sebastian Encina Collections Manager, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Michael Galaty Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Classical Studies, Director, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology and Curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Roberta Frey Gilboe Chief Registrar, Collections and Exhibitions, Museum of Art
Linda Groat Professor of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Christiane Gruber Professor and Chair, History of Art
Amy Harris Director, Museum of Natural History
Kristin Hass Director Academic Program, Humanities Collaboration and Associate Professor of American Culture
Andrew Herscher Professor of Architecture, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Professor of History of Art
Megan Holmes Professor, Department of History of Art
Stuart Kirsch Professor, Department of Anthropology
Amanda Krugliak Assistant Director, Arts Programming, Humanities Institute
Melissa Levine Librarian, Library Research – Copyright, University Library and Adjunct Lecturer in Information, School of Information
Despina Margomenou Lecturer IV, Department of Classical Studies
Michelle McClellan Assistant Archivist, Bentley Historical Library
Timothy McKay Professor, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, and Professor of Education, School of Education
David Michener Curator, Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum
Keith Mitnick Associate Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Lisa Nevett Professor, Department of Classical Studies; Director, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology
Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo Professor, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Sally Oey Professor, Department of Astronomy
Diarmaid O’ Foighil Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Curator, Museum of Zoology
Derek Peterson Professor of History and African Studies, Professor of History and Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies
Rebecca Price Librarian, Arts and Humanities, University Library
Ricky Punzalan Associate Professor, School of Information
Christopher Quintana Associate Professor, School of Education
Christopher Ratte’ Professor of Classical Studies, Professor of History of Art, and Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Sanne Ravensbergen Lecturer I, History of Art
Janet Richards Professor of Egyptology, Department of Middle East Studies and Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Jennifer Robertson Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, Department of Anthropology, Professor Emerita of History of Art, and Professor Emerita of Art & Design, Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design
Carrie Roberts Conservator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Mireille Roddier Associate Professor of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Adam Rountrey Collection Manager, Museum of Paleontology
Andrew Shryock Professor, Department of Anthropology
Patricia Simons Professor Emerita of History of Art and Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies
Hannah Smotrich Associate Professor, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Amy Stillman Professor of American Culture and Professor of Musicology, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Cody Thompson Collection Manager and Assistant Research Scientist, Museum of Zoology
Joe Trumpey Associate Professor of Art, Penny W Stamps School of Art and Design and Associate Professor of Natural Resources, School for Environment and Sustainability
Gustavo Verdesio Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Terry Wilfong Professor of Classical Studies, Professor of Egyptology, Department of Middle East Studies and Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Lisa Young Lecturer IV, Department of Anthropology
Rebecca Zurier Associate Professor, History of Art