SHERRY HARLACHER

Director
Ph: (740) 587-5713
Email: harlachers@denison.edu

2013-03-14 harlacherSherry earned her Ph.D. in art history in 2010 from Arizona State University.  Her dissertation “Picturing the Dhamma: Text and Image in Late Colonial Sri Lanka” offers an interdisciplinary examination of Theravada Buddhist book art practices in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Sri Lanka (Ceylon).  Her museum experience includes curatorial and registration work at Arizona’s Phoenix Art Museum (2001-2006) where she continues to consult on the Museum’s Sri Lankan art collection.  Sherry has significant university classroom experience in teaching Western and Asian art. Her principal research interests include Buddhist and Hindu material culture, Chinese ceramics, materials analysis, and the transfer of art-making technologies.

ANNA CHRISTINA CANNIZZO

Curator of Collections
Ph: (740) 587-6554
Email: cannizzoa@denison.edu

Anna earned her B.A in anthropology in 2000, certificate in Museum Studies in 2004, and M.S. in Anthropology in 2007 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her museum experience includes collections based work at the Pabst Mansion, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archaeology Lab, and in the departments of Anthropology, Conservation, and Education at the Milwaukee Public Museum. She also took part in the Sicilian-Scandinavian Archaeological Project during the Summer 2000 in Salemi, Sicily. Anna is primarily responsible for the care and use of the Denison Museum’s collections. Her interests include Archaeology, Enthnology, Museology, and Cultural Heritage Preservation.

SARAH BAKER

Assistant to the Director
Phone: (740) 587-6255
Email: bakerse@denison.edu

Sarah graduated from Denison University in 2008 with a B.A. in Art History.  She earned her M.A. in History of Art from the University of Bristol in 2010 and her M.L.I.S. from Kent State University in 2011.  

Student Workers
  • Wataru Akamatsu ’14
  • Lindsey Beetem ’13
  • Tyler Carroll ’15
  • Karly Etz ’13
  • Tong Liu ’14
  • Kristine Mallinson ’15
  • Jennifer Murphy ’15
  • Samantha Scinta ’15
  • Marisa Zemesarajs ’15

“Working at the Denison Museum helped to activate my learning by giving me practical applications for my liberal arts degree, while I was still in school. The things that I learned while I was on the job made my coursework come to life.”

— Cara Lovati '09