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After completing a DPhil at Merton College, Oxford, Jeffrey taught classical archaeology at University College London and the University of Arizona before joining the Getty Museum in 2014. He has published on many aspects of Greek art and iconography, gems and jewelry, numismatics, early Christian and Byzantine art, ancient magic, and the history of collecting. His books include Ancient Gems and Finger Rings: Catalogue of the Collections, The J. Paul Getty Museum (1992); Late Antique and Early Christian Gems (2007); Picturing the Bible: the Earliest Christian Art (2007); and Late Byzantine Rings, 1204-1453 (2013).

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Judith has been at the J. Paul Getty Museum since 2015 as part of the Antiquities Provenance Project. Her research focuses on the history of the Getty’s collection and on documenting the 20th-century art market for antiquities. She holds a BA in classical and near eastern archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and an MSt in classical archaeology from the University of Oxford. In 2019, she co-developed “Provenance Research: Collecting Histories” as a course for the Museum Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is a co-author of the book Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: Methods and Resources (forthcoming, Getty Publications.)

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Since joining the Getty in 2015, Nicole has worked on the Antiquities Provenance Project, researching the history of the permanent collection for the online collection pages. She received her BA from UC Berkeley in classical civilizations and integrative biology, and holds an MA in art history from UC Davis. Her research interests include Roman domestic art, history of collecting, and the reception of antiquity. While at the Getty, she has written provenance case studies for the Getty blog, contributed to the catalogue Roman Mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum (2016), and published a chapter in Collecting and Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (2019). She is a co-author of the forthcoming book Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: Methods and Resources.

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Sara holds a PhD in ancient history from Yale University. Her research focuses on Graeco-Roman Egypt, with an emphasis on hybridizing art. More broadly, she is interested in cross-cultural interactions in antiquity and their artistic manifestations. She previously worked at the Yale University Art Gallery and curated the exhibition Drink That You May Live: Ancient Glass from the Yale University Art Gallery (2017). Since joining the Getty in 2016, she has co-curated the exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World and co-edited the accompanying catalogue (2018). Her current projects include an upcoming exhibition on interactions between Persia and the Classical world (together with Jeffrey Spier and Tim Potts), and research on the use of Hellenistic honorific sculpture in Ptolemaic Egypt.

A native of Germany, Jens received a PhD in classical archaeology from Free University Berlin. Working at the Getty Museum since 2002, he curated several exhibitions exploring Hellenistic bronze sculpture, Roman imperial portraits and their modern copies, as well as the role of ancient art in 20th-century European modernism. He is the co-author and editor of several books, most recently the exhibition catalogue Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World (2015, together with Kenneth Lapatin). His current projects include the preparation of the Getty Museum’s collection catalogue of Roman sculpture and the reinstallation of the Getty Villa’s permanent galleries.

Kenneth holds degrees in classics and archaeology from Berkeley and Oxford and was a professor at Boston University before joining the Getty Museum in 2002. He has excavated in Greece, Italy, Israel, and England, both above ground and under water, and has curated over a dozen exhibitions on themes ranging from Athenian vases, polychrome sculpture, and Hellenistic bronzes to antiquity in the Middle Ages and the modern reception of Pompeii. The author/editor of many books and over 100 other publications, his principal research interests include the materials, techniques, and functions of ancient art; the history of collections; luxury in ancient art; and forgery.

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Since joining the Getty Museum in 2008, Claire has curated the exhibitions Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit: The Society of Dilettanti (2008);The Aztec Pantheon and Art of Empire (2010); Lion Attacking a Horse from the Capitoline Museums, Rome (2012–13); and Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome (2013). Her research centers on pre-Roman Italy and antiquities collecting in the modern era. In addition to the Sicily exhibition catalogue, she co-edited The Archaeology of Colonialism (2002); Antiquity & Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites (2005); and Altera Roma: Art and Empire from Mérida to Mexico (2016). Claire completed a PhD in classical archaeology at Bryn Mawr College and has excavated at Murlo, Corinth, Metaponto, and Morgantina.

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David's research interests focus on Greek and South Italian vase-painting and the histories of collecting and restorations. He has a doctorate in classical archaeology from Oxford University and joined the Antiquities department in 2008. He is co-editor of The Restoration of Ancient Bronzes: Naples and Beyond (2013); Dangerous Perfection: Ancient Funerary Vases from Southern Italy (2016) and the conference volume Collecting and Collectors from Antiquity to Modernity (2018). He has curated such exhibitions as Apollo from Pompeii: Investigating an Ancient Bronze (2011), Greece's Enchanting Landscape: Watercolors by Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi (2015) and Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife (2018).

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