Class of 2020 Summer Internships

We’re just wrapping up the last week of instruction for the spring quarter and as the students are finishing up treatments and other assignments for their classes (as well as studying for exams next week), they’re also getting ready to head out to their summer internship sites.

Here is a list of all the sites and institutions they’ll be working at this summer:

• Austin Anderson – Yosemite Museum  (Yosemite National Park, CA) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium).
• Elena Bowen – Fowler Museum at UCLA and the Corral Redondo Project (Iquipi, Peru)
• Kasey Hamilton – Stone Conservation Workshop, National Museum of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
• Skyler Jenkins – Villa Romana di Poggio Gramignano excavations (Umbria, Italy), Tayinat Archaeological Project (Antakya, Turkey), and at Nea Paphos (Cyprus) to participate in a study of ancient Cypriot wall paintings
• Emily Rezes – Pachacamac Site Museum (Lima, Peru)
• Megan Salas – Laboratory of Archaeometry, University of the Peloponnese and

  Archaeological Museum of Messenia (Kalamata, Greece)

The students will be presenting on their summer internships when they’re back in the fall and we’re looking forward to hearing all about their amazing work!  Stay tuned to our social media sites for any posts and/or images from their internships. Hope everyone has a great summer and safe travels!

 

Skyler Jenkins reconstructs a ceramic vessel during the 2017 season of the Villa Romana di Poggio Gramignano excavations.

Class of 2016 3rd year Internship & Thesis Presentations

It’s the end of the quarter and today, the class of 2016 returns to our conservation training labs at the Getty Villa to give their final presentations as graduate students in our program.  They will be presenting on their 3rd year internships, as well as discussing the work they did for their MA thesis projects.  The day will end with a  small reception to celebrate the completion of their conservation degree and graduation!

A list of their 3rd year internship placements can be found on this previous post.   Here is a list of the M.A. thesis research they will also be sharing with us:

• Colette Badmagharian – Piecing together the History of an 18th-century printed Armenian Prayer Scroll: The Study of Cultural Context and Manufacturing Techniques
• Betsy Burr – Dye analysis of archaeological Peruvian textiles using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)
• Lesley Day – A Study of the Moiré Pattern of Tortoiseshell: Morphology of the Pattern, Techniques for Documentation, and Alterations of the Pattern and Shell by Accelerated Light Aging 
• Tom McClintock – Documentation and Technical Study of Torqua  Cave
• William Shelley – Biocorrosion of Archaeological Glass
• Heather White – An Analysis of Unidentified Dark Materials Between Inlaid Motifs on Andean Wooden Qeros

Congratulations to the class of 2016 and good luck on your presentations today!

Class of 2018 Summer Internships

The quarter is coming to an end and as our students are working to finish up object treatments and projects, they’re also getting ready to head out on their summer internships.  Here’s a list of the great places our students will be going to this summer:

• Morgan Burgess-Upper Sabina Tiberina Project and the Penn Museum
• Marci Burton-Methone Archaeological Project
• Mari Hagemeyer-Maluaka Field School and the Huhugam Heritage Center
• Hayley Monroe-Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park
• Lindsay Ocal-Methone Archaeological Project
• Michaela Paulson-Upper Sabina Tiberina Project

We hope they enjoy their time at their internship sites and we look forward to hearing about the work they did when they come back this fall!

Class of 2016 Summer & 3rd Year Internships

The quarter is coming to an end and students are busy finishing up treatments and thesis projects, as well as writing papers and studying for finals. On top of all that, they’re busy getting ready to leave LA for their summer and 3rd year internships. Below is a list of all the great places they’ll be working at in the upcoming year.

• Betsy Burr-Alaska State Museum and Arizona State Museum
• Lesley Day-Hibulb Cultural Center and American Museum of Natural History
• Colette Khanaferov-Shangri La Center for Islamic Arts and Cultures and Benaki Museum
• Tom McClintock-Stepwise Heritage and Tourism, Angkor Wat, and Conservation d’Angkor,
• William Shelley-Gordion Archaeological Project and Laboratory of Archaeometry, Univ. of Peloponnese
• Heather White-Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and The British Museum, Ceramics, Glass and Metals Section

We wish them good luck on their internships and safe travels!

Summer Internships 2012

The quarter is over and summer begins for the class of 2014. This means that everyone is gearing up to start their summer internships. This summer we have students working in 6 different countries, at museums and archaeological sites.

The summer internship placements  for our 2nd years (congratulations on completing your 1st year!) are listed below. We hope they have an amazing time this summer and we can’t wait to hear about their experiences when they are back in the fall.

• Brittany Dolph-Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center/Athanasakeion Archaeological Museum of Volos/Methone Archaeological Project
• Ayesha Fuentes-Shaanxi Archaeological Institute/Dept. of Archaeology of Sri Lanka
• Geneva Griswold-Siqueiros America Tropical Project, Getty Conservation Institute/Mural conservation project, Riserva Naturale del Sacro Monte di Varallo
• Caitlin Mahony-INSTAP Study Center for East Crete
• Casey Mallinckrodt-Arizona State Museum
• Madeleine Neiman-Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
• Alexis North-Tayinat Archaeological Project/Brooklyn Museum of Art
• Carinne Tzadik-Benaki Museum/Methone Archaeological Project

UCLA/Getty Program 3rd Year Placements-Class of 2010

The following are the 3rd year internship placements for the class of 2010:

• Siska Genbrugge – Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (Lisbon, Portugal); Luxor Temple, Epigraphic Survey, University of Chicago (Luxor, Egypt); Organics Conservation Laboratory, British Museum (London, UK)
• Lauren Horelick – Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles, CA); Alaska State Museum (Juneau, AK); American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)
• Jiafang Liang – Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum (China); Nelson Atkins Museum (Kansas City, MO)
• Linda Lin – Agora Excavations, American School of Classical Studies (Athens, Greece); Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA)
• Suzanne Morris – Santa Teresa Monastery Museum (Arequipa, Peru); UCLA/RUG Fayum Project (Fayum, Egypt); Aneta Zebala Conservation Studio (Los Angeles, CA)