Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the staff and curators of the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology for their many contributions to this exhibition. We also thank the directors and staff of our museums’ sponsored field projects for photographs and information on their projects. Portions of the exhibition were developed with input from students in our courses, and we would like to thank them for their thoughtful and challenging ideas and discussion.
We owe special thanks to Kelsey Museum Assistant Exhibition Designer Emily Pierattini for her innovative and creative design work, often on very short notice, to Julia Falkovitch-Khain for her creative web design, and to Elizabeth Noll and Lisa Bessette for their editorial work on exhibition text. Lisa Young of the Department of Anthropology generously shared her work on the “Michigan Relics” and we are grateful for her help.
We also thank the University Library for loans from its Papyrology Collection and the Bentley Historical Library for permission to reproduce historical photographs from its collections.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous funding provided by:
- University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- University of Michigan Bicentennial Committee
- University of Michigan Museum Studies Program and our respective museums
- Carla M. Sinopoli, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Program in Museum Studies
- Terry G. Wilfong, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies