Director: Linda Ellis
San Francisco State University
Humanities 515
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 405-0599
museumst@sfsu.edu
Hours: M-Th, 10-4
Museum Studies Faculty
Jean DeMouthe, Lecturer, Museum Studies
Linda Ellis, Professor & Director of Museum Studies
Christine Fogarty, Program Administrator & School Outreach Manager; Lecturer, Museum Studies
Andrew Fox, Lecturer, Museum Studies
Mark Johnson, Professor of Art, Department of Art
Edward M. Luby, Associate Professor of Museum Studies
Marian Bernstein, Curator & Lecturer Emerita, Museum Studies & Classics
Jean DeMouthe, Lecturer, Museum Studies
Dr. Jean DeMouthe holds degrees in Geology and Science Education from Humboldt State University (BS), San Francisco State University (MA), and the University of California at Berkeley (EdD). Currently, she is Senior Collections Manager for Geology at the California Academy of Sciences, where she has worked for 30 years, and also as a consulting engineering geologist. She is an active member of a number of geologic and museum conservation organizations and has published and lectured on various subjects related to geology and specimen conservation. Dr. DeMouthe teaches museum studies courses in collections care and conservation (M S 740 & M S 760).
Linda Ellis, Professor & Director of Museum Studies
Prof. Linda Ellis holds a B.A. (1978) in Anthropology with a minor in Classics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.A. (1979) and Ph.D. (1984) in Anthropology from Harvard University where she specialized in Old World archaeology and the applications of the physical sciences to the analysis of archaeological materials. Over the course of nine years at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Prof. Ellis taught courses on scientific applications to cultural materials, and conducted chemical and microscopic analyses on prehistoric ceramics. Prior to her current position, Dr. Ellis also taught in the Anthropology Department at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and in the Classics Department at Tufts University. Dr. Ellis has taught at SFSU since 1987 in the following fields: history and organization of museums; authentication of art and antiquities; collections management and registration; exhibit design; museum education;law and ethics; curatorship & collecting; censorship & culture wars in museums; as well as occasional courses in ancient history and archaeology. In 1989, Dr. Ellis received the Meritorious Performance & Professional Promise Award from SFSU. The Museum Studies Program and the many years of joint exhibition programs between the Museum Studies Program and Mills College Art Museum have received nationwide attention in the following article by Nan Hoffman "Collaboration & Community Outreach," in the journal, Liberal Education 81(3):48-51, 1995, published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Dr. Ellis has been conducting archaeological research in Romania since 1979 and was the first Western archaeologist after WWII permitted to conduct archaeological excavations in Romania and to export Romanian museum objects for analysis in the U.S. She was invited by UNESCO to go to Romania in 1992 as part of an international effort to assist museums damaged by the revolts of December 1989. Dr. Ellis has on-going excavations at the Neolithic site of Scânteia in northern Moldavia and is Director of the American Field School at the Roman city of Tropaeum Traiani near the Black Sea, to which students and avocational volunteers are invited. As an expert on Balkan archaeology and history, Dr. Ellis has delivered public lectures on crises in the Balkans and on May 7, 1999, was invited to make a guest appearance on "Forum", KQED radio (PBS, San Francisco), a one-hour program devoted to the history of the Balkans. She also appeared in the 2006 BBC/History Channel series, Terry Jones' Barbarians.
Dr. Ellis has published three books on the applications of science to archaeology, ancient ceramic technology, archaeological method and theory and many professional articles in World Archaeology, Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin, Arheologia Moldovei, Journal of Indo-European Studies, and has contributed articles in several volumes of conference proceedings in Europe and the US. Dr. Ellis was editor of Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia, Garland Publishing, 2000. She has delivered scholarly papers at over two dozen national and international conferences, including meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America, Society for American Archaeology, American Anthropological Association, Association of Ancient Historians, and Society for Late Antiquity. In 2001, Dr. Ellis co-organized the international conference at SFSU on Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity, the fourth biennial conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity.
Dr. Ellis has studied museums and their collections in Germany, England, France, Greece, Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia, Romania, the Republic of Moldova, Austria, the South Pacific Islands, Canada, and across the U.S. In 1994 she received an invitation from the National Park Service to conduct an intensive course on museum collections management and cultural preservation for museum representatives from all Marianas Islands in Micronesia. Since 1994, L. Ellis has served as a national museum surveyor to conduct on-site evaluations of museums for the Museum Assessment Program (MAP I, institutional assessment; MAP II, collections management and conservation assessment; and MAP III, public dimension assessment) for the American Association of Museums. From 1997 to 2003, she has been the Western Regional Representative for the Committee on Museum Professional Training of the AAM. Dr. Ellis has delivered public lectures on museums at professional meetings (e.g., Restoration Expo, American Association of Museums, American Anthropological Association, Archaeological Institute of America) on such topics as gender issues in museum studies programs; future demographics of the museum workplace; preservation education and careers in heritage preservation; research and employment prospects in museums; censorship of art and museum exhibitions; and museums, politics, and the alteration of culture history. A review article on the state of museum studies and the museum profession was published in 2004 (Chapter 19: "Museum Studies". In: J. Bintliff, ed., A Companion to Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers).
Christine Fogarty, Program Administrator & School Outreach Manager; Lecturer, Museum Studies
Christine Fogarty has been the Program’s administrator since 2000, and teaches the course Museum Education and Schools Outreach (M S 710). An alumna of the Program (MA 2002), Christine also holds a degree in Art/Art History from San Jose State University (BA 1994), and a multiple subject teaching credential from SFSU's Dept. of Elementary Education (2005). Her areas of emphasis include object-based learning, museum outreach, and curriculum development.
Prior to SFSU, Christine worked for over 10 years in collections and educational programming for museums in the Bay Area and Washington state, including: the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University; the San Mateo County Historical Museum; Pacific Science Center (Seattle, WA); The Tech Museum of Innovation; and SF MOMA.
In addition to her duties in Museum Studies, Christine is an art outreach instructor for the School Program at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, teaching social studies-based art activities in Bay Area classrooms.
Andrew Fox, Lecturer, Museum Studies
Andrew Fox holds degrees in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (AB) and Museum Studies from San Francisco State University (MA). Currently, he administers web and new media programs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), where he has worked since 1998. Duties at FAMSF include ongoing development of Museums’ award-winning web site, Thinker.org, as well as work on new media installations for the landmark new de Young Museum, which reopened in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in October 2005. Prior work at FAMSF included conducting media relations campaigns for major touring exhibitions, including Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective, and Spirit Country: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Gantner Myer Collection. Andrew Fox teaches the course M S 810, Information Technology and Museums.
Mark Johnson, Professor of Art, Department of Art
Prof. Mark Johnson is Director of SFSU's Fine Arts Gallery and Professor of Art (Painting). He holds a BA from Yale University (1975) and a MFA from the University of California at Berkeley (1982). Prior to his appointment at SFSU, Prof. Johnson worked as an artist and professor of art at Humboldt State University and at the San Francisco Art Institute.
His areas of expertise include: exhibit design, arts administration, fundraising, and community collaborative arts programming. His projects have included many exhibitions, workshops, symposia and public events in multicultural American art history. Some of Prof. Johnson's exhibitions in the Fine Arts Gallery include "Black Power/Black Art... and the Struggle Continues", "With New Eyes: Toward an Asian American Art History in the West", and more recently, "Witness to War: Revisiting Vietnam in Contemporary Art."
Prof. Johnson teaches the course, Art 719 Exhibition Design, offered in the Dept. of Art, and serves as a thesis advisor for many Museum Studies students.
Edward M. Luby, Associate Professor of Museum Studies
Dr. Edward M. Luby teaches courses in the Museum Studies curriculum on museum governance, museum administration and management, cultural heritage preservation, NAGPRA, fundraising, and cultural property issues.
Dr. Luby was formerly Associate Director of the Berkeley Natural History Museums, a consortium of campus museums with over 100 staff members across 7 separate institutional entities: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Museum of Paleontology, Essig Museum of Entomology, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Botanical Garden, University and Jepson Herbaria, and the California Biodiversity Center. While at Berkeley, Dr. Luby developed and implemented research and educational initiatives, managed and advised staff, supervised regulatory compliance for collections, and conducted independent and collections-based research. He has generated substantial funds from private and governmental sources to support digitization of archives, field station development, research equipment, collections research, collections preservation and storage, dating of collections, documentation of Native American collections, conference funding, employment of museum scientists and preparators, and development of K-12 initiatives.
Prior to his position as Associate Director, Dr. Luby was Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the NAGPRA Unit for the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at U.C. Berkeley. He supervised the university's compliance with the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the employment and training of up to 15 staff and numerous students, and worked with Native groups in California and elsewhere in the U.S. on the repatriation of cultural items and human remains. Dr. Luby also taught courses at UC Berkeley on museum studies, curation, and cultural property issues. In 1997, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Luby received his BA (Biology and Anthropology) from the University of Rochester, and his MA and PhD (Anthropological Sciences) from Stony Brook University, New York. His area of expertise is archaeology with field research in both North America (California and Mexico) and the Middle East (Syria and Iraq). He has published in North American Archaeologist, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Biblical Archaeology Review, Journal of Archaeological Science, Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology, California Anthropologist, as well as in several books on the prehistory of California, archaeology of Iraq, and archaeological method and theory. He has also presented numerous scholarly papers at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, American Anthropological Association, World Archaeological Congress, Society for California Archaeology, and the American Oriental Society.
Dr. Luby’s most recent publications include “More than One Mask: The Context of NAGPRA for Museums and Tribes,” (in press, in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, with co-author Melissa Nelson); “Maintaining Relationships with Native Communities: the Role of Museum Management and Governance” (in Museum Management and Curatorship, 22(3): 265-285, 2007, with co-author Elizabeth Scott); "Shell Mounds and Mounded Landscapes in the San Francisco Bay Area: An Integrated Approach" (in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, Volume 1: 191-214, 2006, with co-authors Clayton D. Drescher and Kent G. Lightfoot); and “A Survey of World War II-Era Provenance Research in American Art Museums” (in Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, Volume 1 (4):365-80, 2005, with co-author Meagan Miller).
Dr. Luby's most recent funding includes a multi-year, collections-based project for graduate student training with Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park (Richmond, CA), Pinnacles National Monument (Monterey/San Benito counties, CA), and Yosemite National Park (with Professor Linda Ellis). In 2004, he received funding from the National Science Foundation for a multi-year project with Professor Kent Lightfoot of UC-Berkeley to conduct a variety of technical analyses of a museum collection excavated from a key Bay area shell mound more than 90 years ago. With Professor Melissa Nelson of San Francisco State University’s Department of American Indian Studies, Professor Luby also received funding from the National Park Service in 2004 to conduct a training workshop.
Finally, among Dr. Luby’s most recent papers or lectures are “The Production of Mounded Landscapes by Hunter-Gatherers: A Perspective from San Francisco Bay, California” (by Kent G. Lightfoot, Edward M. Luby, and Lisa Pesnichak), presented at the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings in Vancouver, B.C., March, 2008; "Cultural Property and Museums," part of the "Conversations on Museums" Program at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, in Berkeley, April, 2007; “Outdoor Museums: The Current Trends,” presented at the National Association for Interpretation Region 9 Workshop, held at the Fort Ross Historical Park in May, 2005; and “The Context of NAGPRA,” presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, in January, 2005. Dr. Luby has also been a member of several, Bay area museum committees, including those at the California Academy of Sciences, the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, and the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley.
Marian Bernstein, Curator & Lecturer Emerita, Museum Studies & Classics
Marian Bernstein is Curator Emerita of the Sutro Egyptian Collection, Lecturer Emerita for Museum Studies and Classics, and co-founder of the Museum Studies Program. She received her BS in Bacteriology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also undertook biochemical research, and received her MA in Egyptology from San Francisco State University.
From 1961 through her retirement in 2006, Mrs. Bernstein curated annual public exhibitions of the Sutro Egyptian Collection at SFSU, and presented the Amarna Collections of Egyptian antiquities and Near Eastern cylinder seals from the UC Berkeley collections.
Mrs. Bernstein also taught courses in three areas: museum conservation and restoration, with emphasis on organic chemistry of ancient materials; courses in Egyptology, including Egyptian civilization, hieroglyphics, and literature; and museum exhibit production.