Naomi Rosenkranz

Naomi Rosenkranz joined the Making and Knowing Project in August 2015 as the Project Manager before becoming Assistant Director in 2019. She serves as the main administrative liaison, supports the historical reconstruction research, oversees the Project’s chemical laboratory, and maintains the digital collaboration systems. Naomi studied physics at Barnard College with minors in mathematics and Latin American/Iberian studies. She served as the inaugural Science Resident in Conservation with Columbia’s Ancient Ink Lab, identifying and characterizing ancient carbon-based inks. She continued her investigation of inks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, working with the departments of Scientific Research and Paper Conservation to examine medieval iron-tannate black inks through recipe reconstructions and spectral analysis of museum objects.