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John E. Simmons |
Collections Manager, Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center and Director, Museum Studies Program |
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| jsimmons@ku.edu |
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History of museums; history of natural history specimen preparation; herpetofauna of the Andes ; management of museum collections. Recent books and papers include Herpetological Collecting and Collections Management (2002); The theoretical bases of collections management (2003); Cuidado, Manejo y Conservación de las Colecciones Biológicas , (with Yaneth Muñoz-Saba, 2005); Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (2006). |
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| Museum collections management training in Latin America and Asia ; history of fluid preservation of natural history collections |
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History of museums; history of natural history specimen preparation; herpetofauna of the Andes ; management of museum collections |
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MUSE 704, Museum Collections Management; MUSE 710, Current Topics in Curation and Collections Management; MUSE 780, Special Topics; MUSE 782, Seminar in Current Museum Topics; MUSE 790, Advanced Study; MUSE 792, Directed Readings |
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M.A., Historical Administration and Museum Studies, University of Kansas , 1988; B.S., Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas , 1976 |
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| : http://nhm.ku.edu/herpetology/Simmons.htm |
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