Emily Angelucci is a first year MA Art History student with a focus on Arts Management. Her research explores the cross-cultural interactions between the ancient Near East and ancient Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, with a particular interest in how this material culture is displayed and interpreted in museums for public audiences.  

Emily graduated summa cum laude with honors from Dickinson College in 2024, where she double majored in Archaeology and Anthropology and minored in Art History. Over the past five years, Emily has worked in a variety of museum roles spanning collection management, exhibition design, and curatorial research at two different institutions. 

Her senior thesis, Museum of the Bible: Misdeeds, Mistakes, and the Consideration of Neutrality, critically examined the institution’s practices and its interaction with the public. That same year, she curated the exhibition Souvenirs of Ruin: Piranesi and the Birth of Western Tourism at the Trout Gallery, which connected Piranesi’s prints with ancient artifacts donated by Commodore Jesse D. Elliott, framing both through the lens of tourism. This research culminated in her 2024 conference presentation, The Commodore’s Curious Collection: Jesse Duncan Elliott and the American Grand Tour, at the Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Meeting.