Sean
O'Harrow, PhD, will become the new executive director of the Figge
Art Museum beginning August 20, 2007.
O'Harrow,
a U.S. citizen currently living in England, has been the development
director for Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge, is
an art historian with a strong background in business and finance,
has taught art history and architecture at American and British
universities, and has worked in several museums in the United States.
He earned his undergraduate degree in History of Art from Harvard and
his doctoral degree in History of Architecture from Cambridge, and
his specific area of scholarship is late-15th and early-16th century
English and French architecture.