Collections Manager, African Archaeology; and the Ethnography and Archaeology of Europe; the Middle East; South, Central, and East Asia; and Mainland and Island Southeast Asia
Gantz Family Collections Center
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Jamie is the McCarter Anthropology Collections Manager
Jamie is part of a team who cares for cultural collections from Asia, Europe, and ancient Africa. Together they connect folks to these collections.
As Jamie writes, "As part of a museum collections and curation team, my role is not only to help care for the roughly 1.5 million cultural items at the museum, but it is also to connect descendant communities, researchers, educators, and the general public to these collections through community partnerships, behind-the-scenes visits and tours, community-driven programs, museum education initiatives, public events, loans, and exhibitions. This work is possible through inter-department and community collaborations."
He is currently involved with colleagues on the renovation of the Africa and Ancient Egypt exhibitions at the museum. He also serves as a co-PI on an Andrew W Mellon Foundation-funded Read moreEducation and Work
- B.A. Anthropology and Art History with a minor in Museum Studies, Beloit College, 1996.
- M.S. Anthropology with certification in Museum Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2002.
- Before joining the Field Museum in 2006, Jamie was the museum registrar at the Wheaton Historic Preservation Council in Wheaton, Illinois. He has also served as a conservation assistant at the Milwaukee Public Museum and as a museum registrar at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Prior to his graduate studies in Milwaukee, he was a field archaeologist in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Accomplishments
Jamie has served on the Board of the Illinois Archaeological Survey (IAS) and is a member of:
- Midwest Archaeological Conference (MAC)
- Wisconsin Archeological Society (WAS)
- American Alliance of Museums (AAM)
- Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS)
- Association of Midwest Museums (AMM)
- Illinois Association of Museums (IAM)
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