Curated Conversations Presents: Behind the Curtain
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Join Daniel H. Weiss, Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins, and Marion Gill, Deputy Director of Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center, for a virtual glimpse behind the curtain to examine how these two leading universities are re-imagining the role of museums in campus life.
As the role of the arts in the cultural life of universities evolves, research universities across the country are infusing energy into their galleries, museums, and performance spaces. Join Daniel H. Weiss, Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins, and Marion Gill, Deputy Director of Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center, for a virtual glimpse behind the curtain to examine how these two leading universities are re-imagining the role of museums in campus life. The MA in Museum Studies Assistant Program Director Stephanie Brown will moderate the discussion.
Daniel H. Weiss is Homewood Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and President Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He previously served as President and Professor of Art History of Haverford College and, from 2005 to 2013 of Lafayette College.
The author of seven books and numerous articles, Weiss has published and lectured widely on a variety of topics, including the art of the Middle Ages and the Crusades, higher education, museums, and American culture. Earlier in his career, Weiss spent four years as a management consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton in New York.
Weiss received the Business and Society Award from the Yale School of Management, the Van Courtlandt Elliott Award from the Medieval Academy of America, both the Monumental Alumni Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award from The George Washington University, and he was inducted into the Society of Scholars at Johns Hopkins in 2018. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, Weiss is Vice Chair of the Board of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Vice Chair of the Library of America, a member of the University Council at Yale, and a trustee of the Wallace Foundation and the Posse Foundation.
He holds an MBA from Yale and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in medieval art, where he joined the art history faculty and in six years rose to full professor and then chair of the department. Three years later, he became the James B. Knapp Dean of Johns Hopkins’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Marion Gill is the Deputy Director of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University where she is responsible for the museum’s day-to-day operations and administrative management. She formerly served as the Associate Director of Special Projects at Princeton University and as the Provost’s delegate on major projects. In this capacity, Gill provided planning and project management support to multi-year initiatives including the Art Museum’s expansion and rebuilding.
Previously, Gill served as the Director of Museum Planning and Operations at the International African American Museum (IAAM), in Charleston, S.C., where she led planning efforts for construction and up-fit coordination, facilities management, security and emergency operations, IT coordination, exhibition and media management, and retail operations (store and café). She also spent more than 25 years at the Smithsonian Institution and played key roles in the planning and opening of two museums: the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004 and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016.
Gill is an alumna of the Northfield Mount Hermon School and holds a BA in Political Science from Fisk University.