Provost Wendell Pritchett recently announced an ad hoc consultative committee to advise him on the appointment of a new Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Julian Siggers, who was appointed Williams Director in 2012, has been named President and CEO of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, beginning in September 2020.

The members of the committee are:

• Wendell E. Pritchett, Provost, Presidential Professor of Law and Education (Chair)
• Steven Fluharty, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences; Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience
• Peter Gould, Vice Chair, Board of Overseers, Penn Museum
• Christopher Gruits, Executive and Artistic Director, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
• Michael Kowalski, Chair, Board of Overseers, Penn Museum
• Trevor Lewis, Vice President for Budget and Management Analysis
• Amanda Mitchell-Boyask, Executive Director of Development, Penn Museum
• Kathleen Morrison, Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences; Curator, Asian Section, Penn Museum
• Deborah Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences
• Lucy Fowler Williams, Associate Curator and Sabloff Keeper of Collections, American Section, Penn Museum

The work of the committee will be supported by Mark Dingfield, Associate Provost for Finance and Planning; Lynne A. Hunter, Associate Provost for Administration; and Ufuoma Pela, Senior Director of Human Resources, Provost Administrative Affairs, working with Mary Gorman of the executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

Nominations and applications can be sent to PennMuseum@SpencerStuart.com