Staff

For general inquiries call 785.864.4710 or email spencerart@ku.edu.

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Leadership

Saralyn Reece Hardy
Marilyn Stokstad Director
785.864.4710
srh@ku.edu
Stephen Goddard
Associate Director/Senior Curator, Works on Paper
785.864.0127
goddard@ku.edu

Curatorial

Susan Earle
Curator, European & American Art
785.864.0144
earle@ku.edu
Kris Ercums
Curator, Global Contemporary & Asian Art
785.864.0143
kiercums@ku.edu
Cassandra Mesick Braun
Curator of Global Indigenous Art
785.864.5253
cmesick@ku.edu
Kate Meyer
Curator, Works on Paper
785.864.0128
kmm0045@ku.edu
Luke Jordan
Photography Specialist
785.864.0128
lukej@ku.edu

Internal Operations and Administration

Jennifer Talbott
Director of Internal Operations
785.864.0135
jenneu@ku.edu
Emma Davison
Financial and Systems Coordinator
785.864.4710
e669d655@ku.edu
Robert Hickerson
Database Manager/Archivist
785.864.0134
farmn@ku.edu
Jared Johanning
IT Support Technician
785.864.5692
jaredjohanning@ku.edu
Matt Miller
HR Coordinator
785.864.6585
mmiller32@ku.edu
Brittany Nanney
Assistant to the Director
785.864.0140
bnanney@ku.edu
Ryan Waggoner
Photographer
785.864.0134
wag44@ku.edu
Deven Knapp
Digital Imaging Assistant
d158k412@ku.edu
Megan Murphy
Digital Imaging Assistant
785.864.0134
m673m092@ku.edu
Rose Wolf
Student Archive Assistant
785.864.0134
r415w021@ku.edu

External Affairs

Amy Duke
Public Programs & Visitor Experience Manager
785.864.0126
aduke@ku.edu
Alexis Fekete
Grant Writer
785.864.3127
fekete@ku.edu
Elizabeth Kanost
Communications Coordinator
785.864.0142
elizacat@ku.edu
Ashley Aranda
Student Public Programs and Visitor Experience Assistant
785.864.0130
visitors@ku.edu
Kristy McKinney
Visitor Services Weekend Manager
785.864.0130
visitors@ku.edu
Jacque Vaughan
Student Public Programs and Visitor Experience Assistant
785.864.0130
visitors@ku.edu

Academic Programs & Education

Celka Straughn
Andrew W. Mellon Director of Academic Programs
785.864.0136
straughn@ku.edu
Kristina Walker
Director of Education
785.864.0137
kemitch@ku.edu
Joey Orr
Assistant Curator of Research
785.864.7686
joeyorr@ku.edu
Amanda Martin-Hamon
Associate Director of Community Engagement
785.864.0137
akmartin@ku.edu
Kristan Hanson
Exhibition Research Assistant
khanson1@ku.edu
Gretchen Pille
Student Tour Coordinator
785.864.0215
arttours@ku.edu

Collections

Sofía Galarza Liu
Interim Assistant Director for Collections
785.864.0146
reina@ku.edu
Sarah Schroeder
Collection Assistant
scschroeder@ku.edu
Angela Watts
Associate Collection Manager
785.864.4979
awatts@ku.edu
Morgan Hunter
Rights & Reproductions Assistant
785.864.6368
photorr@ku.edu

Design & Installation

Richard Klocke
Exhibition Designer
785.864.0132
klocke@ku.edu
Sue Ashline
Matter/Framer
785.864.0129
sashline@ku.edu
Doug Bergstrom
Exhibition Technician
785.864.0132
dug@ku.edu
Dan Coester
Exhibition Technician
785.864.0132
dcoe@ku.edu
Jeffrey McKee
Graphic Designer
785.864.0133
jeffreymckee@ku.edu
Eugene Sarmiento
Exhibition Intern
785.864.0132
e_sarmiento@ku.edu
Naomi Shultz
Graphic Design Intern
graphicsintern@ku.edu

Graduate Interns

Marco Polo Camacho
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Integrated Arts Research Initiative Fellow
mpcamacho@ku.edu
Haley Claxton
Legal Intern
heclaxton93@ku.edu
Sydney Gaylord
Berkley Multicultural Coordinator
785.864.0136
smadiversity@ku.edu
Will Hickox
Berkley Intern, Education
785.864.0137
educate@ku.edu
Sam Lyons
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Loo Family Intern, European and American Art
painting@ku.edu
Sydney Pursel
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Loo Family Intern, Global & Indigenous Art
785.864.5253
globalandindigenous@ku.edu
Rajat Shanbhag
Andrew W. Mellon Intern, Academic Programs
785.864.0136
academic@ku.edu
Reilly Shwab
Sloan Intern, Works on Paper
785.864.0127
prints@ku.edu
Weitian Yan
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Loo Family Intern, Asian Art
785.864.0143
asian@ku.edu
Rebecca Younker
Collections Intern
collections@ku.edu