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 and Chair, Department of Anthropology
Robert Bain Associate Professor of Education, Director Academic Program, Teacher Education, School of Education and Associate Professor of History
Nicola Barham Assistant Professor of History of Art, Assistant Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Kerstin Barndt Associate Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Kira Berman Director for Education, Museum of Natural History
Andrea Blaser Collection Manager, Research Museums Center
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 Senior Program Lead 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 Chief Curator and Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art, Museum of Art
Chris W. Dick Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and 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
Paul Erickson Director, William L. Clements Library, Adjunct Professor of History
Michael Galaty Professor of Anthropology and Curator, Museum of  Anthropological Archaeology
Linda Groat Professor of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Christiane Gruber Professor of Islamic Art, History of Art
Tiffany Fryer Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Amy Harris Director, Museum of Natural History
Kristin Hass Director Academic Program, Humanities Collaboratory, 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, History of Art
Stuart Kirsch Professor, Anthropology
Anthony Kolenic Director, Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum
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, 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
Bryan Miller Assistant Professor, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, and Assistant Professor, History of Art
Keith Mitnick Associate Professor of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Jim Moss Research Museum Collection Manager, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
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, 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
Katherine Prichard Associate Registrar, Museum of Art
Helmut Puff Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, and interim Chair, History of Art
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 Assistant Professor of History and Assistant Professor of the International Institute
Janet Richards Professor of Egyptology, Middle East Studies, and Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Jennifer Robertson Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Women’s Studies,  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, and Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
Adam Rountrey Collection Manager, Museum of Paleontology
Andrew Shryock Professor, 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, Museum of Zoology, and Assistant Research Scientist, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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, Romance Languages and Literatures
Terry Wilfong Professor of Classical Studies, Professor of Egyptology, Middle East Studies, and Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Lisa Young Lecturer IV, Anthropology, and Intermittent Lecturer, Residential College
Rebecca Zurier Associate Professor, History of Art