Award Committee

UMAC Award Committee

 

Chair: Joshua Gorman, first Executive Director of Harvard University’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.

 

The UMAC Award Committee is one of UMAC’s Board Committees. Its duration coincides with the Board’s mandate and its goals are:

  • Propose the members of the Evaluation Panel to the UMAC Board
  • Prepare the Call for Nominations
  • Reply to queries
  • Validate nominations in terms of eligibility
  • Coordinate the Evaluation Panel meetings in a non-voting capacity (Chair)
  • Prepare the Award Ceremony at the UMAC AGM
  • Prepare materials to broadly publicise the UMAC Award
  • Propose changes in the nomination form, criteria and Rules to the UMAC Board

 

Members 2025-2028:

UMAC Award Committee:

  • Joshua Gorman (Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, United States)
  • Marta C. Lourenço (Museums of the University of Lisbon, Portugal)
  • Andrew Simpson (Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, Australia)

UMAC Award Judges:

  • Muthoni Thang’wa (National Museums of Kenya, Kenya)
  • Shani Roper (UWI Museum, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
  • Verónica Guadalupe Herrera Rivera (Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Ayumi Terada (The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Sian Tiley-Nel (University of Pretoria Museums, University of Pretoria, South Africa)