About me
Dr. Joelle Wickens is Assistant Professor of preventive conservation in the Department of Art Conservation at the University of Delaware. Her current work in preventive conservation is dedicated to evolving the practice of the specialty to place social, economic, and environmental sustainability at its core. As a critically-engaged scholar, her work is focused on helping the field of conservation broaden its understanding of what cultural heritage is, diversifying who conserves this heritage, and bringing multiple and non-dominant ways of knowing and doing to the conservation process. Her scholarship contributes to the field by understanding who holds the power and privilege needed to maintain the status quo, who and what has been excluded, and what it will take to include the excluded.
