Pamela Vandiver
Dr. Pamela Vandiver joined the Faculty of the University of Arizona in 2004 after 18 years as senior research scientist in ceramics and glass at the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and has co-edited seven Materials Research Society proceedings, Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology. Prof. Vandiver spent thirteen years in the Department of Mmaterials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where David Kingery was her thesis advisor. Kingery and Vandiver co-authored the book, Ceramic Masterpieces. Vandiver has two master’s degrees: one in art and anthropology and the other in materials science. She is a leading scholar in the technological characterization of ancient materials, reconstruction of their technology(ies) of production and use, and the interpretation of their cultural and/or artistic significance. Her work has concentrated on Paleolithic pigments and figurative ceramics in Europe and Asia, Neolithic plasters and the beginnings of ceramic pottery in east and southwest Asia, as well as the physical chemistry of Chinese glazes, tin smelting slags from Goltepe in Turkey, Egyptian faience and the development of European porcelain. Recently she has been working to reconstruct the ceramic technologies from Angkor Wat and to see them relearned and the craft knowledge preserved as intangible cultural heritage. Another recently completed project involves analysis of glazed tile technologies based on ashing of desert plants for reconstruction of monuments in Samarkand and Bukkara, Uzbekistan. She participated in the joint Johns Hopkins University - Smithsonian graduate program in Conservation Science. She is currently involved in a project involving the egg tempera panel paintings executed about 1488 by the artist Gallego and his workshop for a church in Zaragosa, Spain. The paintings are part of the Kress Collection of the University of Arizona Museum of Art.
| Email: Vandiver@mse.arizona.edu | Phone: 520-400-2270 |

Nancy Odegaard
Dr. Nancy Odegaard studied at the Smithsonian’s Anthropology Conservation Laboratory and worked at Harvard University prior to joining the faculty of the University in 1983. She develops and directs programs for the Conservation laboratory at the Arizona State Museum. Graduate Students from programs in applied conservation regularly apply to complete their requisite internship year in this lab. In addition, she teaches classes in conservation and was a mentor for students in Dr. Kingery’s program. The concept for a Heritage Conservation Science Program at the University of Arizona began with their discussions. Prof. Odegaard is currently head of the American Institute of Conservation, and has published three books: one on pesticides in museums, another on skeletal remains and a third on the microchemical characterization of complex materials.
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R. Brooks Jeffery
R. Brooks Jeffery is Associate Dean in the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Coordinator of the college’s graduate certificate program in Preservation Studies. The program has developed a reputation of collaborative engagement with public institutions with a curriculum incorporating community service as a method of learning. Through grants and contracts to the curricular program, interdisciplinary preservation students are provided an opportunity to do real-world projects as an applied product of the professional standards and techniques introduced in the coursework. Jeffery has worked in historic preservation in Yemen, Spain, Mexico, Panama and the U.S. His popular book, A Guide to Tucson Architecture, is a classic building-based history of Tucson. He is a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, US/ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites), Arizona Historic Sites Review Committee, the University of Arizona Historic Preservation Advisory Committee, Tucson Community Design Academy, Vernacular Architecture Forum Executive Board and has collaborated with public and private agencies on preservation issues in Tucson, Arizona and the Southwest. His Preservation Studies program recently hosted a national conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum in Tucson.
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David Killick
David Killick is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He was born and raised in east Africa, received B.A. degrees in African History and Archaeology from the University of Capt Town and M.Phil. and PhD degrees in Anthropology from Yale University. He joined the University of Arizona in 1991 as the first hire in David Kingery’s interdisciplinary program in Culture, Science and Technology, and is now co-ordinator of the NSF IGERT Program in Archaeological Sciences. He teaches courses in African archaeology, archaeometry, industrial archaeology and optical microscopy. He established and maintains the Optical Imaging Laboratory in the Department of Anthropology, which provides microscopes for, and training in, optical petrography, metallography, ore microscope and soil micromorphology. He has done archaeological or ethnoarchaeological field studies of African iron smelting in Cameroon, Senegal, Malawi and South Africa, has conducted metallurgical studies of non-ferrous extractive metallurgy (copper, tin and silver) from archaeological sites in Kenya, Mali, Niger, Madagascar and the Dominican Republic, and has collaborated on studies of 19th-century iron smelting in upper New York State and of prehistoric transport of pottery in Botswana. Among the PhD dissertations that he is currently supervising are a study of power and control in a nineteenth-century company town in Michigan (Sarah Cowie); an examination of the growth of the trans-Saharan caravan trade, as shown by the chemical composition and lead isotope ratios of imported copper alloys (Tom Fenn); a translation of, and commentary upon, a medieval Moroccan treatise on precious metals (Martha Morgan); and a case of collaboration between Spanish colonists and native Americans in smelting copper and lead in seventeenth-century New Mexico (Noah Thomas).

Meredith Aronson
Dr. Meredith Aronson joined the MSE Faculty of the University of Arizona in 2005 to develop a research program in materials for architectural applications. Having roots formed with Kingery as her thesis advisor and a fellowship at the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, her prior work centered on early ceramic technologies of western Mexico, Italian majolica and Greco-Roman red wares, as well as studies in history of technology. After a 10-year hiatus doing anthropology of work at the Institute for Research on Learning and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, she has returned to the university with a focus on earthen architectural materials, coatings and pigments. She also runs the senior engineering design program.
| Email: maronson@arizona.edu | Phone: 520-626-3774 |