Bibliography and Acknowledgements
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I sincerely hope that everyone who has viewed this exhibition has come away with a bit more knowledge than they arrived with. For anyone who would like more information, I offer the bibliography at the bottom of this page. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank those who aided in bringing this exhibition to the public.
This project has been a labor of intellectual curiosity and would not have been possible without the help of several individuals and institutions. I would first like to thank James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell for gifting these objects to the Michael C. Carlos Museum in 2014 and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for providing the funding for this project through their Graduate Mellon Fellowship in Object-Centered Curatorial Research at Emory University, which allowed to me to travel to multiple national and international institutions to conduct research. Additionally, I would like to thank the High Museum of Art, specifically Stephanie Heydt, Katherine Jentleson, and Faron Manuel for working to create curatorial programing for us throughout the duration of the fellowship.
I would also like to the thank the museums I was able to visit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, specifically Christine Brennan, Andrea Achi, Joshua Feigin, and C. Griffith Mann, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Walters Art Museum, specifically Christine Sciacca, Mari Hagemeyer, Lisa Anderson-Zhu, and Lynley Herbert, the British Museum, specifically Christopher Dobbs and Sue Brunning, the Musée de Cluny, specifically Isabelle Bardiès-Fronty and Alain Decouche, and the Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid), specifically Sergio Vidal Álvarez and Beatriz Campderá Gutiérrez. These institutions and individuals allowed me access to their amazing collections which made this exhibition much more dynamic and rich.
Second, I would like to thank scholar Dr. Noël Adams, who was willing to travel to Emory to view the Michael C. Carlos Museum objects featured in this exhibition and offer her expert observations on the materials. Additionally, her expertise in Migration Period objects was indispensable in crafting the narrative and text of this exhibition. I would also like to thank Dr. William Size, Professor Emeritus in the Geology Department at Emory, for his consultation and valuable insight into the materials used to create these objects.
Third, I would like to thank the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, specifically Joanna Mundy for her patience, support, and encouragement as I learned to navigate a new digital platform.
Fourth, I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Elizabeth Pastan for supporting my idea for the project from the beginning and encouraging me to re-apply for the Mellon Fellowship which ultimately resulted in this exhibition.
Finally, I would like to thank the Michael C. Carlos Museum, specifically chief conservator Renée Stein, assistant conservator Brittany Dolph Dinneen, conservation fellows Kaitlyn Wright and Jessica Betz Abel, curators Amanda Hellman and Ruth Allen, Director of Education Elizabeth Hornor, as well as my partner in receiving this fellowship, Ellen Archie for their incredible and unrelenting support in completing this endeavor. I would never have been able to bring this project to fruition without their caring and critical input.