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George Okello Abungu a native of Kenya, has been active in the global effort of conservation of cultural heritage in Kenya and throughout Africa and has served as Chairman of the International Standing Committee on the Traffic of Illicit Antiquities since 1999. He was associated with the National Museums of Kenya for 18 years, where he was Director General from 1999-2002. He is Chairman of the Governing Council of the Kenya Cultural Centre/National theatre, responsible for developing and implementing a strategic plan to revitalize the 56-year old centre and playing a key role in enacting a national cultural policy. He is an advisor for a number of academic and training programmes including UNESCO's Heritage in Young Hands Program in Paris, Africa 2009, a joint project of African cultural institutions, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM and CRA-Terre, and the Robben Island Museum Training Program in South Africa. His other interests include environmental issues and heritage management, and he has been involved in cultural festivals in Kenya, Stockholm, Beijing and Paris among others. Dr. Abungu received his Masters and PhD degrees in Archaeology at Cambridge University in the UK, after completing undergraduate studies in archaeology at the University of Nairobi. Neil Brodie graduated from the University of Liverpool with a PhD Archaeology in 1991 and has held positions at the British School at Athens and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. Since 1998 he has been Coordinator of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre at the McDonald Institute. He was co-author (with Jennifer Doole and Peter Watson) of the report Stealing History commissioned by the Museums Association and ICOM-UK to advise upon the illicit trade in cultural material. He also co-edited Illicit Antiquities:The Theft of Culture and the Extinction of Archaeology (with Kathryn Walker Tubb; 2002) and Trade in Illicit Antiquities: The Destruction of the World's Archaeological Heritage (with Jennifer Doole and Colin Renfrew; 2001). Clemency Coggins has worked on problems of Cultural Property preservation and law since 1968. She served on the U.S. committee involved in drafting the 1970 UNESCO convention, and worked many years for the U.S. ratification and implementation of the Convention. She served on the US Cultural Property Advisory committee for its first decade and has received awards from the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Society for Conservation Archaeology, the U.S. Information Agency, and Rutgers University for work involving cultural heritage. She was a founding member of the International Society of Cultural Property and of its journal, still serving on the two boards. She has published extensively on Latin American and museum cultural property issues and designed the first college course to deal with them in the Archaeology department at Boston University in 1989 this is still taught. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Fine Arts with a thesis involving Maya art and archaeology and is currently Professor of Archaeology, and of Art History at Boston University. Doug Eyring is an Art Director at The Richards Group in Dallas,Texas. Over the years his accounts have included Motel 6, Corona, Learjet, 7- Eleven, Chick-Fil-A, Fruit of the Loom and Sub-Zero to name a few. His work has appeared in Archive, Creativity Magazine, Graphis, Print Regional and The One Show. Donny George a native of Al-Anbar province, Iraq, has centered his career on the study and practice of archaeology in Iraq and the Middle East region. He received his PhD in Archaeology from the University of Baghdad in 1995, has worked at the Iraq Museum since 1976, and has carried out academic excavations at important sites such as Babylon, Nineveh and Um Al-Agareb. He also served as Director General of the Iraqi Museums and Chairman of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and, as one of the world’s foremost experts in ancient Mesopotamian culture, has played a central role to the recovery of some of humanity’s most important antiquities following the looting of the Baghdad Museum. Dr. George is currently Visiting Professor of Archaeology at Stony Brook University in New York. Patty Gerstenblith has been Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law since 1984. She is Director of DePaul's program in art and cultural heritage law and Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's International Cultural Property Committee. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cultural Property from1995 to 2002 and as a public representative on the President's Cultural Property Advisory Committee from 2000 to 2003. Her book, Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law, was published in 2004. She received her J.D. from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Fine Art and Anthropology. She served as a clerk to the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 1983-84. Neil Levy began his advertising career at TBWA Chiat/Day in San Francisco where he worked on Levi’s, Sony PlayStation and Novartis crop protection. From there, he went to Odiorne Wilde Narraway and Partners in San Francisco where he worked on Lucky Brand Jeans, Caterpillar footwear and Electronic Arts. He is currently making his home at BBDO West in San Francisco working on The California Lottery, Air New Zealand and The Partnership For Drug Free America. Glenn Mack co-founder and Director of Education of the Culinary Academy of Austi n, worked as a photojournalist for Tim e Magazine in New York, Moscow, and Central Asia from 1988 through 1994. He earned a BA in Russian Language and Literature from The University of Texas in 1987 and a MA in International Affairs from Columbia University in 1990. He is currently the Project Director for Ukrainian preservation programs at UT's Institute of Classical Archaeology. Tom Mullen writer & proprietor, Exit3a.com. Tom's ten year advertising career has taken him to creatively driven agencies like Wieden & Kennedy, Portland where he worked on national and global campaigns for Nike, ESPN, Microsoft and to TBWA/Chiat/Day, San Francisco where he did the same for Levi's. He's also created campaigns for Wachovia Bank, UNICEF and Wharton Business School's Lauder Institute to name but a few. Tom now lives in The Internet where he freelances full time through his virtual site Exit3a.com. Michael Müller-Karpe who received his PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Heidelberg (Germany), has participated in excavations in Great Britain, Germany, Egypt, Oman, and Iraq. Since 1993, he has been a researcher at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz, coordinating projects with the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage Iraq. He is the author of Metallgefäße im Iraq I: von den Anfängen bis zur Akkad-Zeit. Samuel Paley is Professor of Classics, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His specialty is Ancient Near Eastern studies and this is his responsibility in his dept. He received his degrees from Columbia University in Art History and Archaeology and in Semitic Languages, graduating with distinction in 1974. Since 1975 he has been in Buffalo. Dr. Paley has excavated in Cyprus and Israel, where he directed a 13-year long project for the State University of New York, at a site which documented international trade among the Egyptians, Canaanites and Phoenicians. The final publications of that excavation are expected beginning in 2008. He began working in Turkey in 1993, first at Alishar and then at Cadir. Richard M. Pettigrew a Registered Professional Archaeologist, received his PhD from the University of Oregon in 1977. Since then, he has managed over 300 archaeological projects, many in the Pacific Northwest. In 1999, he founded Archaeological Legacy Institute. ALI utilizes Internet technology to share knowledge about the human past with the general population. The Archaeology Channel is one of its programs. Clemens Reichel who received his PhD in 2001, is a Research Associate at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute where he is Project Coordinator for the publication of the Diyala excavation. In April 2003, following the looting of irreplaceable historic artifacts from the National Museum in Baghdad, he created a web site dedicated to helping identify stolen items. For that achievement, he was named a Chicagoan of the Year 2003 by Chicago Magazine. Colin Renfrew Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, received his PhD from Cambridge University writing his thesis on Neolithic and Bronze Age Cultures of the Cyclades and their external relations. After receiving his degree in 1965, he joined the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Sheffield. In 1972, he became Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. He took up the position of Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University in 1981. In 1990, he was appointed Director of Cambridge's McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. He directed excavations at Sitagroi and Phylakopi in Greece and Quanterness in Orkney. He has been a member of the Ancient Monuments Board for England, the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, the Ancient Monuments and Advisory Committee of the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, and the Managing Council for the British School at Athens. He is the author of numerous books including Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology (2000). Lucille A. Roussin is the founder and director of the Holocaust Restitution Claims Practicum at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where she teaches a seminar, Remedies for Wartime Confiscation. She also teaches a course on "Art, the Law and Professional Ethics" at the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is an associate with the firm of McCallion & Associates and earned her law degree in 1996 from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was a Belkin Scholar. She was Deputy Research Director of the Art and Cultural Property Team of the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets and was an associate in the Art and International Law Practice Group at Herrick, Feinstein LLP in New York City. In 2001, she negotiated the first restitution of a rare Jewish ritual object to a private family in the United States. John Malcolm Russell is the Chairman of the Critical Studies Department and a Professor of Art History at the Massachusetts College of Art. Author of four books and numerous articles and winner of the James R. Wiserman Book Award and the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, he was a member of the UNESCO cultural mission to Iraq in May 2003. Until June 2004, he was the Deputy Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Culture for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He Shuzhong the 2004 recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America's Outstanding Public Service Award and Founder and Director of Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Research Centre (CHP), formerly Cultural Heritage Watch (Beijing), is the Director of the Division of Legislation and Policy, National Administration of Cultural Heritage. Associated with the NACH since 1991, he established its legal department. He began his involvement in cultural heritage law in 1986 while a lecturer of comparative law at China University of Political Science and Law. Ricardo A. St. Hilaire serves as Grafton County Attorney, the chief prosecutor and senior law enforcement authority in northwestern New Hampshire. He has been named one of New Hampshire’s top “40 Under 40” leaders by the Union Leader and the NH Business and Industry Association. In 2006 St. Hilaire received the honor of County Attorney of the Year by the NH Association of Counties. His duties as an elected official focus both on public safety and the development and implementation of criminal justice policy. A prosecuting attorney since 1995, St. Hilaire earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Columbia University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His career has been spent primarily as a trial lawyer responsible for prosecuting serious felony crimes. He is an avocational Egyptologist and is certified by the NH State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program (SCRAP) as a survey technician. In 2003 he created ARCHER, the Account for the Recovery of Cultural Heritage, to promote projects dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and protection of cultural resources. Currently, St. Hilaire is leading the effort to draft administrative regulations for the NH Division of Historical Resources, the agency responsible for the stewardship of the state’s cultural property. Gil Stein since July 2002 Director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and Professor in its Humanities Collegiate Division and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Department, received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. Prior to moving to the University of Chicago, he was a member of the Anthropology Faculty of Northwestern University where he directed several archaeological excavations in Turkey. His book, RethinkingWorld Systems: Diasporas, Colonies, and Interactions in Uruk Mesopotamia came out of his 1992-1997 work at Hacinebi. Elizabeth C. Stone received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1979. Since that time, her research has focused on the relationship between the urban structures and the social, political and economic organization of the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia. A Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the author of numerous scholarly and popular publications, in 2003 she was awarded a $10.9 million grant from USAID to help rebuild Iraqi universities in the fields of archaeology and environmental health. Jane C. Waldbaum received her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Harvard University in 1968. She is the author of three books and numerous articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes and has done archaeological fieldwork in Turkey, Cyprus and Israel. She retired from her position as Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2002. Since January 2003 she has been President of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), and also serves as a Board member for the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. She authors a bi-monthly column called "From the President," in Archaeology Magazine, a general-reader publication of the AIA. |
