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

Derek Briggs Curator-in-charge, Invertebrate Paleontology; Curator, Invertebrate Zoology,
Invertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Zoology
+1 203 432 8590 derek.briggs@yale.edu Website
Pincelli Hull Associate Curator,
Invertebrate Paleontology
Lidya Tarhan Assistant Curator,
Invertebrate Paleontology
+1 203 432 8078 lidya.tarhan@yale.edu Website

Collections Staff

Erynn Johnson Collection Manager,
Invertebrate Paleontology
Jessica Utrup Museum Assistant,
Invertebrate Paleontology
+1 203 432 1722 jessica.utrup@yale.edu

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