Faculty and Staff

The Museology Interdisciplinary Faculty Group is comprised of University of Washington graduate faculty who provide scholarly oversight to the Program. Their expertise is widely dispersed over many academic fields relevant to contemporary museology, including anthropology, architecture, art history, biology, earth and space sciences, education, history, information science, preservation, zoology.

Jordanna Bailkin, PhD
Associate Professor, History and Women's Studies

Patricia Failing
Professor, Art History, School of Art

Leslie Herrenkohl
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology

Bruce Hevly, PhD
Associate Professor, History
Director, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest

Miriam Kahn, PhD
Professor, Anthropology
Adjunct Curator, Pacific Ethnology, Burke Museum

James Kenagy, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Biology
Curator of Mammals, Burke Museum

Steven Kerr, PhD
Professor, Education

Peter Lape, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Curator of Archeology, Burke Museum

Galen Minah, PhD
Associate Professor, Architecture
Graduate Advisor, Architecture

James Nason, PhD
Emeritus Professor, Anthropology
Emeritus Curator of Pacific & American Ethnology, Burke Museum
Emeritus Director, Museology Graduate Program

Richard Olmstead, PhD
Professor, Biology
Curator of Botany, Burke Museum

Theodore W. Pietsch, PhD
Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Curator of Fishes, Burke Museum

Bradley Portin, PhD
Director and Professor, Education, UW Bothell

Julie Stein, PhD
Director, Burke Museum

Robin Wright, PhD
Professor, Art History, School of Art
Curator of Native American Art, Burke Museum
Director, Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art

Shirley Yee, PhD
Associate Professor, Women Studies