William Shelley

Laboratory Manager

Email: wshelley@ucla.edu

Biography

William Shelley is currently the Laboratory Manager for the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the conservation program, William was an assistant conservator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in the Antiquities Conservation Department. He is a graduate of the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program and has an undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of Miami, Florida and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Conservation from the Studio Arts Center International (S.A.C.I.) in Florence, Italy. He completed his third year graduate practicum internship in Kalamata, Greece working at both the Laboratory of Archaeometry at the University of Peloponnese and the 38th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. He has previously held internships at the Toledo Museum of Art, the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, the Anthropology Conservation Laboratory at the National Museum of Natural History, and the Western Archaeological and Conservation Center.