Emily Frank is an objects conservator interested in the ways that study informed by conservation, technical imaging, and scientific analysis of material culture can contribute to understanding of the ancient world. She received an MS in Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works and an MA in History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU in 2018. Prior to her graduate work at the Institute of Fine Arts, she received an MA in Principles of Conservation from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London in 2014 and a BA in Art History with minors in Chemistry and Archaeology at McGill University in 2011. Emily has worked in conservation throughout her education, at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, the Kınık Höyük Archaeological Project, the Lyktos Archaeological Project, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, Agora Excavations, the Natural History Museum (London), the American Museum of Natural History, the Poggio Civitate Archaeological Project, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Her dissertation project explores intentional interventions in Roman objects in the Roman Empire. Her work at ISAW has a strong anthropological theory component; in her dissertation, she conceptualizes material change as a form of object agency. Emily is a 2023-2024 Rome Prize Fellow, and will be based at the American Academy in Rome until July 2024.