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K RISTEN GILLETTE
Student Conservator
Oxford, United Kingdom
CONSERVATION & RELATED E XPERIENCE

WORK PLACEMENT, ASHMOLEAN
MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2015-2016
Under the excellent guidance of the conservation staff, Ive been given a wide range of treatment and
museum responsibilities and opportunities to assist with activities including IPM, gallery cleaning, Oddy
Testing, condition assessments, object installations and developing object surveys. Object treatments
include Egyptian organics, amber consolidation, ceramic repairs and fills, plaster repairs and in-painting,
bead restringing, and coin cleaning. I also take and process images for the department with a RTI dome.
Ive also participated in local Oxford courses for Kintsugi lacquer repairs and masonry stone carving.
BILLINGSGATE ROMAN BATH

CONSERVATION SURVEY
Spring 2015
I participated in an evaluative survey of salt growth in the site of a Roman period bath house in urban
London coordinating with the Museum of London and London Monuments. The project intends to
find localised examples of salt damage in promotion of regular salt removal. Photographic and
descriptive map recording were the primary methods.
GRESHAM SHIP PROJECT, UCL

2014-2015
I assisted in the final stages of the Gresham Ship Project under the supervision of Dean Sully of
University College London packaging objects recovered with the Gresham shipwreck.
MUSEUM OF THE ORDER OF ST.

JOHN, LONDON
2013-2014
I have completed several treatments at the museum, the cleaning and documenting of an ebony
veneered Iberian cabinet from the 1670s with over forty drawers, some hidden, the cleaning of a
ceramic medicine jar given on loan to the St. Johns chapter in Jerusalem, and an unglazed porcelain
mask from a Resusci-Anne used for first-aid training, which also was set for loan exhibit at the
Wellcome Collection. Additionally, I assisted in the completion of a furniture survey and helped to
research the necessities required to submit a funding request which was granted for new housing
materials in the collection storage.
POSTER PRESENTER, INSTITUTE OF

ARCHAEOLOGY, UCL
SPRING 2014
This conference was in conjunction with the Conservation and Development Research Network and
titled Impact of Cross-Disciplinary Conservation on Social Development. I presented a poster
concerning the ethics of conserving entire collections coming from conflict.
HINEMIHI
SPRING 2014, 2015
I participated in the annual conservation of the Maori meeting house, Hinemihi, at Clandon Park,
Surrey.
BRONZE CASTING COURSE

SUMMER 2014
I participated in a master class for luted bronze casting at UCLs Institute of Making, a method of
casting particularly isolated to West Africa and India.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO,
ORIENTAL INSTITUTE, ILLINOIS, USA
SUMMER 2010
My experience with the conservators at the Oriental Institute gave me the confidence to pursue
conservation as a career choice. I spent my time primarily treating and recording stone reliefs from
Sargon IIs palace in Khorsabad. I also completed the reconstruction and treatment of a ceramic platter
from Megiddo.
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

DEPT. OF ARCHAEOLOGY,
FORT SNELLING, MINNESOTA, USA
SUMMER 2009
LEON LEVY EXPEDITION TO
ASHKELON, ISRAEL
HARVARD UNIVERSITY & WHEATON
COLLEGE
SUMMER 2008
COORDINATOR, WESTLAWN
TUTORING GROUP
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA
2008-2010
WHEATON COLLEGE
ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY
PRESIDENT 2009-2010, MEMBER
2007-2010
HERSTMONCEUX CASTLE
ARCHAEOLOGY CLUB
2006-2007
I spent my time with the Minnesota Historical Society completing technical drawings of the stone
lithics in the collections as well as miscellaneous objects such as a 19 th Century clothespin. Several of
these drawings were purchased from me by the state park systems for related historical education and
publication.
This expedition comprised the field work experience required for my undergraduate degree. It took
place under the direction of Larry Stager of Harvard and Daniel Masters of Wheaton College.
I was a leader and participant of a tutoring group in an underprivileged area of the west side of
Chicago.
The Wheaton Archaeology Society were active with the Wheaton collections from early excavations
in Palestine as well as visiting local institutions such as the Oriental Institute and Field Museum in
Chicago.
We volunteered with a local archaeologist as well as practiced site management on the archaeology
present at Herstmonceux Castle near Hailsham, East Sussex.
E DUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, LONDON, UK
SEPTEMBER 2013- PRESENT
MSC CONSERVATION FOR ARCHAEOLOGY & MUSEUMS
SEPTEMBER 2014- PRESENT
Coursework:
Conservation Processes, Conservation Studies, Conservation
Materials Science, Work Placement
Year 2 Work Placement: 10 Months at the Ashmolean
Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Year 1 Coursework:
Technical analysis of a painting from Ecuador-SEM,
pXRF, PLM, FTIR, X-Ray.
Treatment of a ceramic grinder from Germanycleaning, reconstruction, fills, in-painting.
Treatment of an archaeological ceramic from
Early Dynastic Egypt-recons., structural fills, cleaning.
Treatment and analysis of a Bengalese cotton puller
figurine- Kew Gardens Economic Botany Collection.
Others:
Treatment of a copper alloy chain, a lead spindle whorl,
iron armature, engraved bone, a leather-cased set of
Dresden enamel portraits.
Volunteering in the completion of the Gresham Ship
project-includes waterlogged treatments, rehousing and
database collection.
WHEATON COLLEGE, WHEATON, ILLINOIS, USA

SEPTEMBER 2007- MAY 2010
BA ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY
Coursework:
Museum Installation
Archaeology of Syria/Palestine (with Ceramics Lab)
Archaeological Field Work
Geoarchaeology
GIS, GIS Practicum
Ancient Near Eastern History
Old Testament Archaeology
New Testament Archaeology
Economies of the Ancient Mediterranean
Koine Greek (Four semesters)
German (Two Semesters)
MA PRINCIPLES OF CONSERVATION
SEPTEMBER 2013- SEPTEMBER 2014
Coursework:
Conservation Management, Preventive Conservation, Context of
Conservation, Understanding Objects, Textile Archaeology,
Archaeological Glass & Glazes.
Dissertaton: Topic discussing the relationship of care of valued
objects in the home environment and consequent understanding
of preventive conservation care.
Significant Projects:
An environmental monitoring project, a ceramics
survey was completed which also evaluated survey
documentation.
An experimental archaeology project was conducted in
the Textile course which evaluated the behaviour of
several sheep fibres.
Research project concerning the ethical difficulties of
conserving collections of conflict, specifically
associated with the museum collection of the Royal
Museum of Central Africa. A poster from this
research was presented at the conference titled
Impact of Cross-Disciplinary Conservation Practices
on Social Development and held at the Institute of
Archaeology (UCL) on 16-17 May 2014.
INVERHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, INVER GROVE,

MINNESOTA, USA
SEPTEMBER 2010- MAY 2012
Coursework:
General Chemistry (Two Semesters)
Organic Chemistry (Two Semesters)
Art History (Classical-Present)
QUEENS UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTRE,

HERSTMONCEUX CASTLE, EAST SUSSEX UK
SEPTEMBER 2006- APRIL 2007
Coursework:
Earth Systems
History of Modern Europe
Art History (Ancient Renaissance)
World Religions.
SIGNIFICANT SKILLS
Scanning Electron Microscopy
Polarized Light Microscopy
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
ArcGIS with Archaeological Applications
RTIReflectance Transformation Imaging
German Language Competence
Microsoft Office
Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy

Portable X-Ray Diffraction
Object Photography
Technical Drawing
Textile Skills (Knitting, Crochet, Sewing, Spinning)
World Travel
Minnesota Driving License & U.S. Passport

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K RISTEN GILLETTE

CONSERVATION & RELATED E XPERIENCE

BILLINGSGATE ROMAN BATH

GRESHAM SHIP PROJECT, UCL

MUSEUM OF THE ORDER OF ST.

POSTER PRESENTER, INSTITUTE OF

BRONZE CASTING COURSE

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

E DUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

WHEATON COLLEGE, WHEATON, ILLINOIS, USA

INVERHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, INVER GROVE,

QUEENS UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTRE,

Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy

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