Advisory Board
A board of museum professionals from Harvard University and the Greater Boston area has been formed to advise the Extension School administration on museum-related issues, trends in museums today, curriculum development, and oversight of thesis directors.
Members of the advisory board from Harvard
- David Gordon Mitten, James Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Chair
- Robert E. Cook, Arnold Professor and Director, Arnold Arboretum
- William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology, and Howells Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
- Ivan Gaskell, Senior Lecturer on History and Margaret S. Winthrop Curator, Harvard University Art Museums
- Thomas Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard University Art Museums
- Donald H. Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium
Members of the advisory board from the Greater Boston museum community
- John Durant, Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum
- Christaud M. Geary, Curator for African and Oceanic Art, Museum of Fine Arts
- Beverly Morgan-Welch, Executive Director, Museum of Afro American History
- Lawrence J. Yerdon, President, Strawberry Banke Museum
- Nina Zannieri, Executive Director, Paul Revere Memorial Association