Ellen Pearlstein receives federal grant for preservation education program
The project is among 208 national initiatives recognized by the National Endowment of the Humanities.
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The project is among 208 national initiatives recognized by the National Endowment of the Humanities.
May 4, 2021 Ellen Pearlstein, professor in the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies and the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program, has been awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome for her scholarship on the conservation of indigenous materials from the Americas. As part of the award, she will receive a stipend and accommodations on the academy’s campus starting in September 2021. The Rome Prize laureates are selected through a national competition in 11 disciplines. Pearlstein was one of three awarded in the field of historic preservation and conservation. She will remain...