Meet the Peabody
Curators & Collections Staff
The exceptional collections in the care of the Museum’s curatorial staff are at the heart of University teaching, the interdisciplinary studies of researchers from around the world, and the Museum’s exhibitions that communicate the importance and excitement of studying Earth’s history and diversity.
The 10 divisions charged with the care of more than 14 million specimens and objects housed in the Yale Peabody Museum are overseen by curators appointed from the Yale University faculty.
Board of Curators
Jay Ague
Curator-in-charge,
Mineralogy & Meteoritics
+1 203 432 3171
jay.ague@yale.edu
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Paola Bertucci
Curator-in-charge,
History of Science & Technology |
Bhart-Anjan Bhullar
Associate Curator,
Vertebrate Paleontology, Vertebrate Zoology, Herpetology |
Derek Briggs
Curator-in-charge, Invertebrate Paleontology; Curator, Invertebrate Zoology,
Invertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Zoology |
Richard Burger
Curator,
Anthropology |
Leo W. Buss
Curator Emeritus,
Invertebrate Zoology |
Oswaldo Chinchilla
Curator-in-charge,
Anthropology |
John C. Darnell
Curator,
Anthropology |
Michael R. Dove
Curator,
Anthropology |
Casey Dunn
Curator-in-charge,
Invertebrate Zoology |
Erika Edwards
Curator-in-charge,
Botany, Paleobotany |
Jacques Gauthier
Curator-in-charge, Reptiles,
Vertebrate Paleontology, Vertebrate Zoology, Herpetology |
Frank Hole
Curator Emeritus,
Anthropology |
Pincelli Hull
Associate Curator,
Invertebrate Paleontology |
Roderick J. McIntosh
Curator Emeritus,
Anthropology |
Martha Muñoz
Assistant Curator, Amphibians & Reptiles,
Vertebrate Zoology, Herpetology |
Leonard Munstermann
Curator-in-charge,
Entomology |
Thomas J. Near
Curator: Ichthyology,
Vertebrate Zoology, Ichthyology |
Noah Planavsky
Associate Curator,
Mineralogy & Meteoritics
+1 203 432 9043
noah.planavsky@yale.edu
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Richard Prum
Curator-in-charge, Birds,
Vertebrate Zoology, Ornithology
+1 203 432 9423
richard.prum@yale.edu
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Eric Sargis
Curator: Mammals,
Vertebrate Paleontology, Vertebrate Zoology, Mammalogy |
David Skelly
Curator: Amphibians,
Vertebrate Zoology, Herpetology |
Lidya Tarhan
Assistant Curator,
Invertebrate Paleontology |
Jessica Thompson
Assistant Curator,
Anthropology |
Anne P. Underhill
Curator,
Anthropology |
Elisabeth Vrba
Curator Emeritus,
Vertebrate Paleontology, Vertebrate Zoology |
Collections Staff
Alexi Baker
Collections Manager,
History of Science & Technology
+1 203 437 3084
alexi.baker@yale.edu
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Dan Brinkman
Museum Assistant,
Vertebrate Paleontology
+1 203 432 3760
daniel.brinkman@yale.edu
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Susan Butts
Senior Collections Manager,
Invertebrate Paleontology |
Roger H. Colten
Senior Collections Manager,
Anthropology |
Maureen DaRos White
Museum Assistant,
Anthropology
+1 203 432 3770
maureen.white@yale.edu
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Becky DeAngelo
Museum Assistant,
Divisions and Collection Support |
Carol DeNatale
Renovation Director,
Divisions and Collection Support
+1 203 432 9856
carol.denatale@yale.edu
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Mariana Di Giacomo
Natural History Conservator,
Divisions and Collection Support
+1 203 432 3965
mariana.digiacomo@yale.edu
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Dan Drew
Museum Assistant,
Divisions and Collection Support
+1 203 432 4735
daniel.drew@yale.edu
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Marilyn Fox
Chief Preparator,
Vertebrate Paleontology
+1 203 432 3747
marilyn.fox@yale.edu
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Larry Gall
Collections Manager,
Entomology |
Erin Gredell
Registrar
+1 203 737 4695
erin.gredell@yale.edu
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Ellie Howell
Museum Assistant,
Divisions and Collection Support |
Shusheng Hu
Collections Manager,
Paleobotany
+1 203 432 3790
shusheng.hu@yale.edu
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Lynn Jones
Museum Assistant; IPM Coordinator,
Divisions and Collection Support
+1 203 464 3975
lynn.a.jones@yale.edu
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Andrew Koh
Museum Scientist (Ancient Pharmacology)
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Cathy Lash
Preparator,
Vertebrate Paleontology
+1 203 432 3747
catherine.lash@yale.edu
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Agnete Wisti Lassen
Associate Curator,
Yale Babylonian Collection |
Eric Lazo-Wasem
Senior Collections Manager,
Invertebrate Zoology
+1 203 432 3784
eric.lazo-wasem@yale.edu
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Celia Lewis
Museum Assistant,
Divisions and Collection Support
+1 203 432 2874
celia.lewis@yale.edu
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Christina Lutz
Project Preparator,
Vertebrate Paleontology
+1 203 432 3747
christina.lutz@yale.edu
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Samantha Murphy
Museum Assistant,
Divisions and Collection Support |
Barbara Narendra
Archivist; Senior Museum Assistant,
Mineralogy & Meteoritics, Divisions and Collection Support
+1 203 432 0729
barbara.narendra@yale.edu
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Stefan Nicolescu
Collections Manager,
Mineralogy & Meteoritics
+1 203 432 3141
stefan.nicolescu@yale.edu
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Ray Pupedis
Senior Collections Manager,
Entomology |
Vanessa Rhue
Collections Manager,
Vertebrate Paleontology
+1 203 432 3748
vanessa.rhue@yale.edu
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Lourdes Rojas
Museum Assistant II,
Invertebrate Zoology
+1 203 432 5221
lourdes.rojas@yale.edu
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Piper Stepule
Museum Assistant,
Vertebrate Zoology |
Patrick Sweeney
Senior Collections Manager,
Botany |
Jessica Utrup
Museum Assistant,
Invertebrate Paleontology
+1 203 432 1722
jessica.utrup@yale.edu
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Nate Utrup
Museum Assistant,
Divisions and Collection Support
+1 203 494 2619
nathan.utrup@yale.edu
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Greg Watkins-Colwell
Senior Collections Manager,
Vertebrate Zoology, Herpetology, Ichthyology |
Charmaine Wong
Collections Manager, Pacific Ethnology,
Anthropology
+1 203 737 1899
charmaine.wong@yale.edu
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Kristof Zyskowski
Collections Manager,
Vertebrate Zoology, Mammalogy, Ornithology
+1 203 432 9821
kristof.zyskowski@yale.edu
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Honorary Curators
The category of Honorary Curator is reserved for past Directors of the Museum who are no longer at Yale and for other distinguished natural scientists whom we wish to honor and whose appointment will honor the Museum. The appointment is without term.
A.W. Crompton
Alison F. Richard
Keith Stewart Thomson