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Christina Rozeik MA (Cantab), MSc, MA, ACR

Conservator, Polar Museum

Sponsored by the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust

Biography

Christina Rozeik read Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and then trained as an objects conservator at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She has worked as a project conservator on the redisplay of the Egyptian and Greek & Roman galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and at the Royal Institution, where she conserved objects as diverse as a Wimshurst machine, Michael Faraday's experimental induction coils and a boomerang used in one of the Institution's Christmas lectures! She has a particular interest in conservation outreach and publication, and was the founding editor of IIC's bi­monthly, international conservation newspaper, News in Conservation. She was also responsible for the maintenance of IIC's website, database and server and in 2008 managed the development and relaunch of the IIC website.

Career

• 2012 to date: Conservator, The Polar Museum, University of Cambridge
• 2011-2012: Editor (maternity cover), Journal of the Institute of Conservation
• 2008-2011: Research Associate (Conservation), AHRC Greece and Rome Project, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
• 2007-2008: Project Conservator, Faraday Museum, Royal Institution, London
• 2006-2008: News and Web Editor, International Institute for Conservation
• 2005-2006: Assistant Conservator, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

Qualifications

• 2011 to date: PhD in Conservation, UCL
• 2011: Accredited Conservator Restorer (ACR)
• 2005: MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, UCL
• 2003: MA in Principles of Conservation, UCL
• 2001: MPhil in Philosophy, University of Cambridge
• 1999: MA (Hons) in Philosophy, University of Cambridge

Research

Christina's current research focuses on the relationship between the conservation profession and the public, and she is carrying out PhD research at UCL into the public image and understanding of museum conservation in the UK. More information about this project can be found on the UCL website.

Publications

• Rozeik, C. (2012) 'A Maddening Temptation': The Ricketts and Shannon collection of Greek and Roman antiquities. Journal of the History of Collections. In press; advance access: DOI 10.1093/jhc/fhs008.
• Rozeik, C. (2011) Thinking outside the box: the re­conservation of a ceramic Clazomenian sarcophagus in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Journal of the Institute of Conservation 34(1), 80–89.
• Dawson, J., Rozeik, C.R.Y., and Wright, M.M. eds (2010) Decorated Surfaces on Ancient Egyptian Objects: Technology, Deterioration, Conservation, Archetype Publications, London. ISBN: 978­1­904982­57­9.
• Rozeik, C., Dawson, J., and Wrapson, L. (2010) Are Attic vases 'archaeological'? In C. Rozeik, A. Roy and D. Saunders, eds, Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean, IIC, London, 24–29.
• Rozeik, C., Roy, A., and Saunders, D., eds (2010), Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean, IIC, London. ISBN: 0­9548169­3­5.
• Rozeik, C. (2009) Review of Eggert, P., Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature. Studies in Conservation 54, 281–283.
• Rozeik, C. (2009) The treatment of an unbaked mud statue from ancient Egypt. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 48(1), 69–81.
• Rowe, S., and Rozeik, C. (2008) The uses of cyclododecane in conservation. Reviews in Conservation 9, 17– 31.
• Emmett, T.F., Rozeik, C., Dawson, J., and Wood, N. (2008) The Egyptian Gallery of The Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge University, UK): opportunities for the application of Raman spectroscopy and other spectroscopic techniques. In P. Vandenabeele and L. Moens, eds, GeoRaman '08: 8th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy Applied to the Earth Sciences. Book of Abstracts, Academia Press, Gent, 87. ISBN: 978­90­382­1271­5.
• Rozeik, C. (2007) The Papyrus of Nakhtefmut: New Life for a Book of the Dead, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. ISBN: 0­904454­82­7.

External activities

• Accredited member of the Institute of Conservation (Icon)
• Ordinary member of the International Institute for Conservation
• Chair, Icon Archaeology Group: 2010-2011.
• Treasurer, Icon Archaeology Group: 2007-2010.
• Web manager, International Institute for Conservation: 2007-2009.
• Conference organising committee, Decorated Surfaces on Ancient Egyptian Materials: 2007.
• Assistant Editor, Reviews in Conservation: 2006.