Education

• University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering – Heritage Conservation Science
Dissertation title: Journeys of Our Ancestors: Conservation science approaches to the analysis of cultural material

• University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering

• New York University, New York, NY, USA
M.A., Art History and Advanced Certificate in Objects Conservation

• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
B.A. with Honors, Art History, magna cum laude
Minors: Chemistry and Economics

Areas of Interest

Caitlin is an objects conservator with a specialty in archaeological materials and a conservation scientist with research interests in nondestructive analytical technologies and technical reconstructions of original manufacturing technologies and artifact deterioration to inform conservation.

Selected Publications

• O’Grady, Caitlin R. expected 2024. A temporary arrangement: Research and conservation science at the British Museum. In History of conservation: The first scientific laboratories, ed. Georgianna Moraitou. Athens: Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development.

• O’Grady, Caitlin R. expected 2023. Conservation, expertise, and identity: Acknowledging silent voices in the production and preservation of archaeological knowledge. In Unsilencing the archives. AASOR 75. Ed. Aaron Brody. Alexandria, VA: The American Schools of Oriental Research.

• O’Grady, Caitlin R. expected 2023. Assembling a sustainable past: The role of conservation, expertise, and institutions in transforming archaeological heritage. In Working towards a sustainable past: ICOM-CC 20th triennial conference preprints, Valencia, 18 – 22 September 2023, ed. Janet Bridgland. Paris: International Council of Museums.

• O’Grady, Caitlin R. expected 2023. Legitimizing the past: Conservation, expertise, and the power of transformation. In AIC 50th annual meeting general session postprints. Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Conservation.

• O’Grady, Caitlin R. 2022. Ceramic lockdown stories: Remote teaching in a pandemic. In Recent advances in glass and ceramics conservation 2022: 6th interim meeting of the ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group, eds. Rebecca Gridley and Victoria Schussler. Paris: International Council of Museum – Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC), pp. 95-105.

• O’Grady, Caitlin R. 2022. Conservation and the archaeological gaze: Field manuals and handbooks – their role in transforming preservation knowledge in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 14th international ANAMED annual symposium: Heritage, world heritage, and the future: Perspectives on scale, conservation, and dialogue, eds. B. Nilgün Öz and Christina Luke. Istanbul: Koç University Press, pp. 189-216.

• O’Grady, Caitlin R. 2022. Mending, sticking and repairing: Negotiating conservation expertise in archaeology in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Histories of conservation and art history in modern Europe, eds. Sven Dupré and Jenny Boulboullé. London: Routledge, pp. 79-94.

• O’Grady, C.R. 2021. Interventions: Contesting time, expertise and perspective in conservation decision-making. In Transcending boundaries: integrated approaches to conservation. ICOM-CC 19th triennial conference preprints, Beijing, 17–21 May 2021, ed. Janet Bridgland. Paris: International Council of Museums, 10 pages.

• Mokrišová, Jana, Christopher H. Roosevelt, Christina Luke, and Caitlin R. O’Grady. 2020. Made from mud. Functional categorization and analyses of Bronze Age earthen materials from western Turkey. Studia Hercynia 24(1): 30-65.

• O’Grady, Caitlin R. 2019. Waxing enthusiastic: Transmission and migration of consolidation materials and techniques in the early 20th century. In Migrants: art, artists, materials, and ideas crossing borders, eds. Lucy Wrapson, Victoria Sutcliffe, Sally Woodcock, and Spike Bucklow. London: Archetype Publications, pp. 59-76.

• O’Grady, Caitlin R., Christina Luke, Christopher H. Roosevelt, and Jana Mokrišová. 2018. Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and preserving mudbrick architecture in regional and diachronic contexts. Cogent Arts and Humanities, 25 pages. DOI:10.1080/23311983.2018.153326 / https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2018.1553326

• Roosevelt, Christopher H., Christina Luke, Sinan Ünlüsoy, Canan Çakilar, John M. Marston, Caitlin R. O’Grady, Peter Pavúk, Madga Pieniążek, Jana Mokrišová, Catherine Scott, Nami Shin, and Francesca Slim. 2018. Exploring space, economy, and interregional interaction at a second-millennium B.C.E. citadel in central western Anatolia: 2014–2017 research at Kaymakçı. American Journal of Archaeology 122(4): 645-688. DOI: 10.3764/aja.122.4.0645 / https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3764/aja.122.4.0645

• O’Grady, Caitlin R. 2017. Gentlewomen in the field and museum: Unacknowledged pioneers in the development of conservation as both profession and university discipline – the London case. In Engaging conservation: collaboration across disciplines, eds. Nina Owczarek, Molly Gleason, and Lynn A. Grant. London: Archetype Publications Ltd. in association with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, pp. 3-18.

• O’Grady, Caitlin R. 2017. The model conservator: Unpicking the past to understand discipline development. In ICOM-CC 18th triennial conference preprints, Copenhagen, 4–8 September 2017, ed. Janet Bridgland, art. 1906. Paris: International Council of Museums, 8 pages. • Odegaard, Nancy and Caitlin R. O’Grady. 2016. The conservation practices for archaeological ceramics of Sir Flinders Petrie and others between 1880-1930. In Recent advances in glass and ceramics conservation 2016, eds. Hannelore Roemich and Lauren Fair. Paris: International Council of Museum – Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC), pp. 85-95.