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The department faculty includes nationally and internationally recognized conservators and other conservation specialists with extensive experience in conservation education. All of its instructors' sole teaching assignments are in the department, allowing them to provide students with uninterrupted guidance both in the classroom and outside scheduled class periods. In order to augment the instruction provided by the faculty, adjunct faculty and consultants in specialized areas of conservation and allied fields are invited throughout the year to enrich the instructional program through lectures, demonstrations, and workshops.

 
Elizabeth S. Peña, Ph.D. , Director & Professor

Ph.D., Archaeology, Boston University
B.A., Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan
 
James Hamm, Professor, Paintings Conservation

M.A., C.A.S., State University College at Oneonta (Cooperstown Graduate Program - Art Conservation)
B.S., Art History, University of Michigan
 
Dan Kushel, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Technical Examination and Documentation

M.A., C.A.S., State University College at Oneonta (Cooperstown Graduate Program - Art Conservation)
M.A., Art History, Columbia University
B.A., English, Clark University
 


Aaron Shugar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Conservation Science
Ph.D., Archaeometallurgy, University College London
M.S., Archaeomaterials, University of Sheffield
B.A., Anthropology and Law & Society, York University

 
Gregory Smith, Ph.D., Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor in Conservation Science
Ph.D., Analytical/Physical Chemistry, Duke University
B.S., Chemistry and Anthropology/Sociology, Centre College
 


Jonathan Thornton, Professor, Objects Conservation
M.A., C.A.S., State University College at Oneonta (Cooperstown Graduate Program – Art Conservation)
B.A., Art History and Studio Art, Antioch University

 
Judith C. Walsh , Associate Professor, Paper Conservation

M.A., C.A.S., State University College at Oneonta (Cooperstown Graduate Program – Art Conservation)
B.A., Interdisciplinary and American Abstract Expressionism, Trinity College
Art Conservation Department
Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Rockwell Hall 230
Buffalo, NY 14222-1095
Phone: 716.878.5025
Fax: 716.878.5039

Email: artcon@buffalostate.edu
 
Last Updated 4/3/06
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