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Staff Directory

Slought staff are located in Philadelphia and around the world. Connect with the key individuals who contribute to our daily operations. Learn about their interests and values and the programs they support.

Tung Chau
Curatorial and Research Fellow

Chau researches the cultural politics of empathy, witnessing, and trauma in modern and...

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Anastasia Colzie
Curatorial and Research Fellow

Colzie researches Weimar art, in particular the implications of social and political upheaval and...

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Aaron Levy
Executive Director and Chief Curator

Levy works with artists, communities, and institutions to develop cultural projects that...

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Megan Schmidgal
Communications

Schmidgal is interested in big think, or how to draw ideas from fields outside your own that may...

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Current interns include Akili Davis and Youssef Semlali Yacoubi.

Boards and Committees

For over fifteen years, committed individuals of different generations and backgrounds have come together to guide this organization. These trusted advisors recognize the importance and complexity of shaping a new institution. Their continued commitment to Slought's mission, economy and values demonstrates the organization's resilience.

Board of Directors

Performs administrative oversight and offers legal and ethical guidance

Eduardo Cadava
President

Cadava is Professor of English at Princeton University, where he also is affiliated with the...

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Michelle Coffey

Coffey is the Executive Director of the Lambent Foundation, which leverages the critical role of...

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Judith Stein
Secretary

Stein is a writer and independent curator. Her biography-in-progress of the art dealer Richard...

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Kira Strong
Treasurer

Strong is Vice President of Community and Economic Development at the People's Emergency Center...

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The Executive Director is an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors.

Curatorial Committee

Guides the organization's programming and reports to the Board of Directors

Jean-Michel Rabaté
Curator, Discursive Programs

Rabaté has authored or edited 35 books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art,...

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Osvaldo Romberg
Curator Emeritus

Romberg was born and raised in Argentina. In the early 1970s, as a painter and conceptual...

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Advisory Committee

Offers guidance to the organization and reports to the Board of Directors

Nora M Alter

Alter is Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. Recent books...

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Yona Backer

Backer provides strategic planning and fundraising counsel to cultural leaders of the nonprofit...

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Teddy Cruz

Teddy Cruz is recognized internationally for his urban and architectural research of the...

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Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

Weiss is a Serbian-born architect and theorist and the principal of Normal Architecture Office...

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William Menking

Menking is the Editor-in-chief of The Architect's Newspaper, which serves as an...

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Ken Saylor

Saylor has designed numerous gallery and museum exhibitions and media installations with visual...

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Faculty Committee

Facilitates relationships with faculty and students at the University of Pennsylvania

Amy Hillier

Hillier is an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the School...

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Ken Lum

Lum is known worldwide for his conceptual and representational art in a number of media,...

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Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw

Shaw is Associate Professor of History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She...

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Kaja Silverman

Silverman is a visual and film theorist and the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs professor of...

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We acknowledge the contributions of former Board of Director members Louis Cabri, Abe Levy, Jeffrey Kallberg, Tom Lussenhop, and Robert Whitehead (d. 2002). We also gratefully acknowledge the contributions of former Advisory Committee members Shusaku Arakawa (d. 2010), Madeline Gins (d. 2013), Lorand Hegyi, John Higgins, Dennis Oppenheim (d. 2011), Dieter Ronte, and David Slovic.