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Sarah E. Lawrence, director. Areas of interest include art theory and Renaissance art. Publications include Piranesi as Designer (2007), Jacopo Strada (2007); exhibitions include Piranesi as Designer (2007-08) Crafting a Jewish Style: The Art of Bezalel, 1906–1996 (1998–99). Ph.D., Columbia University.

Ethan Robey, associate director. Specialist in American and European nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual culture. Publications include contributions to Distinction and Identity: Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (forthcoming), Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology (2008) and Philadelphia’s Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy (2000). Ph.D., Columbia University.

Eric Anderson, Specialist in nineteenth-century German architecture and theory of design. Exhibitions include Garden Communities in Queens, 1909-1949 (2005). Ph.D., Columbia University.

Donald Albrecht, Museum of the City of New York. American twentieth-century material culture. Exhibitions include National Design Triennial (2003) and Russel Wright: Creating American Lifestyle (2001), On the Job: Design and the American Office (2001) Glass and Glamour: Steuben’s Modern Moment (2003) Publications include Russel Wright: Creating American Lifestyle (2001), articles in Interiors, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record. B.Arch., Illinois Institute of Technology.

Laura Auricchio. Art and Design Studies Department, Parsons. Areas of interest: eighteenth-century French women artists, gender studies and contemporary visual culture. Publications include A Woman Artist of the French Revolution: Adelaide Labille-Guiard (2008); articles in Art Journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Genders; and art criticism in Art on Paper, Art Papers, and Time Out New York. Ph.D., Columbia University.

David Brody. Art and Design Studies Department, Parsons. Specialist in material culture, visual culture, and design studies. Publications include Design Studies: A Reader (2009); Visualizing Empire: Orientalism and American Imperialism in the Philippines (forthcoming), and articles in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, American Quarterly. Ph.D., Boston University.

Susan Brown. Assistant Curator of Textiles, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Specialist in textile history. Publications include contributions to Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance (2005), and articles in National Design Journal and Hali. M.A. Fashion Institute of Technology.

Hazel Clark. Chair of Art and Design Studies Department, Parsons. Areas of interest include the history, theory, and culture of design, fashion and textiles. Publications include Design Studies: A Reader (2009); Old Clothes New Looks Second Hand Fashion (2005), and articles in Design Issues, Design, and Management Journal. Contributing editor to Design Philosophy Papers. Ph.D., Brighton University.

Marilyn Cohen. specialist in popular culture. Exhibitions include Reginald Marsh’s New York (1983), papers on “Furnishing I Love Lucy,” “The Material Culture of Toy Story,” and “The World’s Fair in the Movie Meet Me in St. Louis.” Ph.D., The Institute of Fine Arts.

Elizabeth de Rosa. Director, American Friends of Attingham. Areas of interest include in Art Nouveau and American and European art glass. Exhibitions include Tiffany: Behind the Glass (2000); History’s Mysteries (1998). Ph.D., Columbia University.

Clive Dilnot. Art and Design Studies Department, Parsons. Areas of interest include design theory, history of art, and social philosophy. Publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and articles in Design Issues, ID, Kunst & Museumjournaal. M.A. Leeds University.

Tracy Ehrlich, specialist in architecture and landscape design of early modern Italy. Publications include: Landscape and Identity in Early Modern Rome: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era (2002), contributions to the Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium the History of Landscape Architecture (2005), Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France (2001) and articles in Die Gartenkunst, Landscape and the Journal of Garden History. Ph.D., Columbia University.

Barry R. Harwood, curator of decorative arts, The Brooklyn Museum. Exhibitions include The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America (1997), Tiffany Glass and Lamps at The Brooklyn Museum (1991). Publications include The Furniture of George Hunzinger (1997), and articles in The Magazine Antiques, Studies in the Decorative Arts. Ph.D., Princeton University.

Kristin Herron, director of the museum program of the New York State Council on the Arts. Specialist in historic house museums. Publications include “The Modern Gothic Furniture of Pottier & Stymus” in The Magazine Antiques. M.A., Winterthur Program; MFA, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Ulrich Leben, associate curator of furniture, The Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, Great Britain. Specializes in French and German decorative arts. Publications: monograph on Bernard Molitor (1755–1833) and works on French and German decorative arts. Exhibitions: Jean Jacques Bachelier (1724–1806), Musée Lambinet, Versailles; and Charles Honoré Lannuier (1779–1816), Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ph.D., Universität Bonn.

Sarah A. Lichtman, Art and Design Studies Department, Parsons. Areas of interest include interiors, feminist design history, and twentieth-century design. Publications include Interior Design in the Twentieth Century: Europe and the USA (forthcoming), and articles in Studies in the Decorative Arts and The Journal of Design History. Ph.D. candidate in Design History, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts.

Mary Cheek Mills, Corning Museum of Glass. Specialist in American glass history. Publications include “The Cooperative Venture of Union Glass Works, Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1826–42,” Journal of Glass Studies (1992). M.A., Winterthur Program in Early American Culture.

Tessa Murdoch, deputy keeper, department of sculpture, metalwork, ceramics and glass, Victoria and Albert Museum. Based in metalwork and specializing in 17th- and eighteenth-century English Silver. Curator of numerous exhibitions. Publications include Huguenot Goldsmiths in Northern Europe and North America (2008) Noble Households: 18th-Century Inventories of Great English Houses (2006). Ph.D., University of London.

Anne-Marie Quette, conférencière at the Musées Nationaux de France and Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Specialist in French furniture. Publications include Le Mobilier Français: Louis XIII, Louis XIV (1996), and Le Mobilier Français: Art Nouveau 1900 (1995).

Kristel Smentek. Mellon Curatorial Fellow, The Frick Collection, specialist on French eighteenth-century art and decorative arts. Publications include Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelains and the Allure of the East (2007), contributions to À l’origine de livre d’art. Les recueils d’estampes comme entreprise éditoriale en Europe (forthcoming) and French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century (2007). Ph.D. University of Delaware.

Denny Stone, collections manager, European sculpture and decorative arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Curated numerous exhibitions including Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch (2003). M.A., Fashion Institute of Technology.

Sean Sawyer. Architectural historian and former executive director of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum. Publications include articles in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural History and contributions to Architecture and Pictures from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (2002) and The Houses of Parliament: History, Art, Architecture (2000). Ph.D., Columbia University.

Deborah D. Waters, deputy director, collections and exhibitions, Museum of the City of New York. Publications include Elegant Plate: Three Centuries of Precious Metals in New York City (2000), Plain and Ornamental: Delaware Furniture, 1740–1890 (1984), and contributions to Art and the Empire City (2000). Ph.D., University of Delaware.

John Wilton-Ely, professor emeritus, University of Hull. Scholar of eighteenth-century art, architecture, and decorative arts. Publications include Piranesi: The Complete Etchings (1994), Piranesi as Architect and Designer (1993), The Art and Mind of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1988), and articles on Beckford, Hawksmoor, Wren. M.A. Cambridge University, M.A. Courtauld Institute of Art, London University.

Diane C. Wright. Curatorial Intern, Yale University Art Gallery. Specialist in the history of glass. Publications include articles in Decorative Arts Society Newsletter. M.A. Parsons The New School for Design/Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

Karen Zukowski. Former curator, Olana State Historic Site. Specialist in nineteenth-century American decorative and fine arts, and interior design. Publications include Creating the Artful Home: The Aesthetic Movement (2006) and contributions to Frederic Church’s Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art (2001). Ph.D. City University of New York.