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Director

Noah Charney is the founding director of ARCA. Trained as an art historian, Mr Charney is the first person to study art crime through history, and its practical application to contemporary law enforcement and art protection. He is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and lectures internationally, on both art history and art crime. 

Staff

Urska Jeran
Urska Jeran is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Art Crime and the MA Program Director.  Ms Jeran is a Slovene sinologist, artist, and ancient linguist.  Having lived and worked in China for several years, she developed an interest in art crime in China.  Ms Jeran may be reached at ma@artcrime.info for MA program information and at editor@artcrime.info for correspondence related to the Journal.

Trustees

Col. Giovanni Pastore
Director of the Carabinieri Division for the Protection of Cultural Heritage

Dennis Ahern
Head of Safety and Security, Tate Galleries

Richard Ellis
Private Art & Security Consultant and former Director of Scotland Yard’s Arts & Antiques Unit

Anthony Amore
Director of Security, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Bojan Dobovšek
Professor of Criminology, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Matjaž Jager
Director, Institute of Criminology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dr. Erik Nemeth
Independent Scholar, Santa Monica, California

Noah Charney
Founding Director, ARCA

Selected Advisors, Former Trustees, & MA Program Lecturers

Dick Drent
Director of Security, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Travis McDade
Professor of Library Studies, University of Illinois Law School

Edgar Tijhuis
Attorney and Art Law Specialist, Amsterdam

David Simon
Professor of Art History, Colby College

James William Hess, Esq.
US Attorney

Petrus van Duyne
Professor of Criminology, University of Tilburg

Derek Fincham
University of Loyola

Tom Flynn
Art Historian and Art Critic

Patricia Garland
Senior Conservator, Yale Art Gallery

Vernon Rapley
Director of Scotland Yard’s Arts & Antiques Unit

Danielle Carrabino
Art Historian, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Silvia Ciotti Galetti
Professor of Criminology and Director, Eurocrime Think Tank

Edgar Tijhuis

Toby Bull
Hong Kong Police
Toby J.A. Bull lives and works in Hong Kong, China. He is a qualified art authenticator and holds a degree in Fine Arts Valuation. Since 1993, Mr. Bull has worked for the Hong Kong Police Force. Currently, as a Senior Inspector of Police and posted to the Marine Division, he has extensive experience in mounting anti-smuggling and anti-illegal immigration operations along the Sino-Hong Kong southern water boundary. He is an Associate Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is also a registered volunteer with the Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center (CHP) – an officially recognized Chinese NGO whose core competency lies in cultural heritage laws and policy. Mr. Bull recently wrote a paper on the problems of fake Chinese antiquities in the marketplace, as well as the illicit antiquity trade flowing out of China and into Hong Kong.

Editorial Board for the Journal of Art Crime

Lord Colin Renfrew
Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge 

Petrus van Duyne
Professor of Criminology, University of Tilburg, Netherlands

Matjaz Jager
Director, Institute of Criminology, Slovenia

Patricia Sherwin Garland
Senior Conservator, Yale Art Gallery

Bojan Dobovsek
Professor of Criminology, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Travis McDade
Professor of Library Studies, University of Illinois Law School, US

Ken Polk
Professor of Criminology, University of Melbourne, Australia

David Simon
Professor of Art History, Colby College, US

Erik Nemeth
The Getty Research Institute, US

Todd Fell
Yale University Libraries, US

Liisa van Vliet
Accenture Consuling, UK

Dick Drent
Director of Security, the Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands

Michael Kirchner
CPP, CIPM, Director of Safety and Security, Harvard Art Museums

Anthony Amore
Director of Security, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, US

Dennis Ahern
Director of Security, the Tate Museums, UK

Richard Ellis
Former Director of Scotland Yard’s Arts and Antiquities Unit, UK

Col. Giovanni Pastore
Vice-Commandante of the Carabinieri Art Protection Unit, Italy

Neil Brodie
Professor of Archaeology, Stamford University, US

David Gill
Professor of Archaeology, University of Swansea, Wales

Edgar Tijhuis, Esq.
Attorney, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Benoit van Asbroeck, Esq.
Attorney, Brussels, Belgium

Howard Spiegler, Esq.
Attorney, US

Judah Best, Esq.
Attorney and Smithsonian Trustee, US

Selected Volunteer Agents & Researchers

Julie Hall Williams   support@artcrime.info
Fundraising Coordinator
Julie Hall Williams has volunteered at, and worked for museums from an early age. She holds a degree in Art History from Colby College and an ALM in Museum Studies from Harvard Extension School. She has worked for museums across the globe and most recently completed her thesis on the importance of young philanthropy in today's museums. Ms. Williams has experience in collections management, database management and more extensively and most recently in fundraising.

Cathal Blake  cal@artcrime.info
Private & Corporate Gift Coordinator
Cathal Blake is a firefighter-paramedic in California. He has worked as a Finance Chair for the Young Democrats of San Diego, and lobbied the California State Legislature for Human Rights Watch. Before serving as a first responder, he was a finance aide to New Hampshire Governor John H. Lynch. Mr. Blake has a History degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he received several research grants and taught ethics in public health.

Katharine L. Salomon
Katharine Salomon is completing her Master's Degree in Justice Administration at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. She is a Probation and Parole Investigator with the Kentucky Department of Corrections. Prior to her employment with the Kentucky DOC, she worked for many years as a victim advocate for domestic violence and sexual assault victims. She is an active member of Kentucky Council on Crime and Delinquency, Southern States Correctional Association and Kentucky State Parole Officers Association. Ms. Salomon holds a B.A. from Transylvania University with a double major in Studio Art and Psychology.

Belen Carrasco
Belén Carrasco has a law degree from the University of Navarra. She was trained as solicitor in the law firm Fernando Scornik Gerstein in London in criminal, civil and commercial law. Since 1997, she has worked as solicitor in Spain with the Spanish law firm Herrera y Abalos in Málaga. Ms. Carrasco's main areas of practice are construction, property investment, litigation, and art inheritance protection.

Emily Blyze
Emily Blyze works in the Development Department at The Indianapolis Museum of Art. Her focus is fundraising campaigns and high profile donor events.

Jure Škrbec
Jure Skrbec is an assistant and researcher in organized crime and corruption at the University of Maribor in Slovenia. Under his mentor Bojan Dobovšek, PhD, he has worked on a range of projects, including: corruption and informal networks; informal networks in Europe; art crime; and corruption in politics. He has presented papers at numerous conferences. Mr. Skrbec has also worked at the Institute for Criminology and the prison administration of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2006, he began work as an external consultant at Commission for the prevention of corruption. Mr. Skrbec represents Slovenia in GRECO – Group of States against Corruption, Council of Europe, Strasbourg. He also represents Slovenia in the OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Saša Vucko
Sasa Vucko is an assistant and researcher in organized crime and corruption at the University of Maribor in Slovenia. Since 2004, he has studied criminal investigation under Darko Maver, PhD. He has authored numerous papers and organized conferences on criminology. His projects have included: analysis of the effectiveness of police investigation of crimes from the aspect of development of crime investigation and standards of evidence in criminal procedure; ensuring presence of parties and other participants in court proceedings; corruption in public procurements; and art crime.

Claudia Nardini
Claudia Nardini has Masters in Modern Art History from the University of Pisa, where she published an article entitled "Bernardino Poccetti e gli affreschi di villa Bottini a Lucca." She did postgraduate studies in Communication and Organization about Cultural Events.”

Valeria Gordillo James

Heather Free

Kelley Robison

Antonio Arch