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Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 13:50
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Lorenzo Allori

Lorenzo Allori

Technology Director
lallori(at)medici(dot).org
Italy

Lorenzo Allori, native of Florence, is currently attending the University of Siena majoring in Business Communication. Primarily a Unix and networking specialist, he has worked for Syracuse University and for several other firms, building ad hoc IT solutions and packages integrating proprietary and opensource products.

Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 12:37
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Dr. Alessio Assonitis

Dr. Alessio Assonitis

Research Director
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2003
assonitis[at]medici[dot]org
Italy

Dr. Alessio Assonitis was born in Rome in 1970, attended Saint Stephen's School on the Aventine hill, graduated from Bennington College in Vermont, and received his doctoral degree in Renaissance art history from Columbia University in 2003.

He has taught art history at Columbia University, Barnard College, Herron School of Art, and the Christian Theological Seminary and served as Clowes Fellow at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Submitted by rachel on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 13:56
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Dr. Sheila Barker

Dr. Sheila Barker

Educational Programming Director
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2002
barker[at]medici[dot]org
Italy

Dr. Sheila Barker graduated from Amherst College in 1993 and completed her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph. D. at Columbia University with a specialization in Italian Baroque painting. She has extensive teaching experience (Barnard College, The College of St. Rose, and The American University of Rome); she has managed a private Old Master art gallery; and she has worked in the curatorial department of the Indianapolis Museum of Art as the Allen Whitehill Clowes Curatorial Fellow. She was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2005, and she was a Samuel H. Kress Fellow at The Medici Archive Project from 2005-2007 and a Medici Archive Project Fellow in 2007-2008.

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 10:33
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Rachel Harms

Rachel Harms

Administrative Director
M.F.A.-Painting, Chelsea School of Art, London, 1989
rharms[at]medici[dot]org
United States

Rachel Harms attended Bennington College, received her B.F.A. from Parson’s School of Design in New York City and studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in London, where she received her M.F.A. In addition to her career as an artist, she has had extensive administrative experience, having worked for several non-profit organizations, art galleries and restoration companies. She has been with the Medici Archive Project since 1996.

Submitted by admin on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 16:27
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Dr. Manfredi Piccolomini

Dr. Manfredi Piccolomini

President and Cultural Director
PhD, Harvard University, 1978
mpiccolomini[at]medici[dot]org
United States and Italy

Dr. Manfredi Piccolomini, a native of Florence and a resident of New York, graduated from the University of Florence and went on to receive his PhD from Harvard in 1978.

Dr. Piccolomini is a professor at the City University of New York and was a member of the Council of National Endowment for the Humanities (2006-2009). He has published several books and editions on the Italian and European Renaissance, including the Brutus Revival, which received praise and recognition from the scholarly community.

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 17:36
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Sara Ridings Morrow

Sara Ridings Morrow

Administrative Assistant
smorrow[at]medici[dot]org
United States

Sara Ridings Morrow attended Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania. She has previously worked as a design assistant/marketing coordinator for Southeastern Galleries in Charleston, South Carolina and was the executive secretary for the director and board of trustees for the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. She has been with The Medici Archive Project since 2006.