Michele Marincola is Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Conservation and Co-Chair of the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Before joining NYU in 2002, she was Conservator for The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her research interests include the conservation and technical art history of sculpture, as well as the history and ethics of art conservation. Professor Marincola is the editor of a new edition and translation of Johannes Taubert’s Polychrome Sculpture, Meaning, Form, Conservation (Getty Publications, 2015) and is co-author with Lucretia Kargère of The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture: History, Theory, Practice (Getty Publications, 2020), which was awarded the 2015 FAIC-Samuel H. Kress Publication Award, the 2023 CAA/FAIC Distinguished Scholarship in Conservation Award, and the 2023 AIC Book Award. Professor Marincola also received the 2021 AIC Sheldon and Carolyn Keck Award for Excellence in Teaching.