Museum Collections Care

Katherine Burton Jones has taught in the Museum Studies Program at the Harvard Extension School for the last decade and has served as research advisor for the program since it moved from a certificate program to a masters degree in 2004. She was assistant dean for information technology and media services at the Harvard Divinity School for nine years.

Jones volunteers for non-profits in the New England area. She is a member of the board of directors and chairs the Museum Committee of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum in Newport, RI. She is a member of the board of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum in Chestnut Hill, MA.

Jones was an assistant director at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology from 1994 to 2000, where she introduced the importance of websites and multimedia to all of the Harvard museums. She was responsible for raising funds for the various public-facing technology projects, including the virtual exhibit Against the Winds: American Indian Running Traditions. While at the Peabody, she served on the boards of the Museum Computer Network and the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Mildred Morse Allen Center.

Jones edited and contributed to two books on the use of technology in museums, The Wired Museum (American Association of Museums, 1997), and Museum Informatics: People, Information, and Technology in Museums (with Paul F. Marty, Routledge, 2007). In the last two decades she has also authored numerous articles on topics related to museums, and given presentations at national and regional museum conferences.

Dr. Adam Aja is chief curator at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and a field archaeologist with decades of experience working on expeditions in the Eastern Mediterranean. He has written about the discoveries at Tel Ashkelon in Israel and currently directs work at Tel Shimron in the Jezreel Valley.

Adam Baldinger is Curatorial Associate/Collections Manager of Invertebrate Zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

Joshua Gorman is Executive Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University, which he joined in 2024 following many years at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, overseeing the museum's collections management, registrars, and conservation offices. He holds a PhD in United States history from the University of Memphis and an MA in museum studies from the University of Leicester.

Cynthia Wang-Claypool is the Manager of Genetic Resources at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). She manages the operations of Cryogenic Collection which houses tissues associated with specimens in the museum.