Professional Development

Being based in Europe for a year allowed me to explore a wide range of cultural and historical sites, while also networking with international colleagues at in-person and virtual workshops and conferences.

Sites by the Numbers

Since the end of my second year through the end of my third year, I visited 116 cultural sites in 47 cities or towns across 10 different countries.

I use the term “sites” to refer broadly to museums of all kinds, zoos, and landmarks or historic structures of great cultural significance. I aimed specifically to visit anthropological and ethnographic collections whenever possible to assess different approaches to decolonization and the display of culturally sensitive materials.

I also visited the conservation labs of 16 different institutions in Switzerland, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Complete Site List

*Making bobbin lace during a two-week course on non-woven textile structures*

Workshops Attended

Ancient Peruvian Textile Structures, Abegg-Stiftung
Fiber Processing and Spinning, Abegg-Stiftung
Natural Dyeing, Abegg-Stiftung
Non-woven Textile Structures, Abegg-Stiftung
OCAD for Textile Illustration, Abegg-Stiftung
Hydrogels in Conservation, British Library

Conferences Attended

Association of Dress Historians Conference, Turin, Italy, October 2021
Linen Damask Colloquium, Riggisberg, Switzerland, October 2021
APOYOnline Conference,* Virtual, November 2021
RECH6 – 6th International Meeting on Retouching of Cultural Heritage,* Virtual, November 2021
American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting,* Los Angeles, California, USA, May 2022
*For more information on presentations I gave at these conferences, please see my CV.