Director/Curator
Shannon O’Dell, BS, MA
dentalmuseum@umich.edu
734-763-0767

Shannon O'Dell works full-time supervising all Museum functions including managing Museum staff, addressing reference questions, collection acquisitions and development, policy development, Museum research and exhibits, facilities maintenance, finances and purchasing.

Collections Coordinator
Kathy Daniels, MA
kathdani@umich.edu
734-763-0765

Kathy Daniels is the lead technical collections staff member and is responsible for day to day management of the collections including registration, environmental monitoring as well as managing the museum database and digital assets.

Student Staff
The Museum routinely employs two part-time University of Michigan students in on-going or short term projects. Our student assistants research, catalog and photograph or scan artifacts and documentary materials, maintain and plan new exhibits, and design Museum marketing and program literature. The Museum also encourages skilled volunteers to assist us with similar projects as workspace and supervision allows.

Lindsay Smith is a U-M graduate in the School of Information with a concentration in Archives Management and Preservation of Information. Her responsibilities include collection cataloguing, research for exhibits and making collections accessible through digitization efforts.		Shelby Strommer is a graduate student in the U-M School of Information studying Preservation of Information and Archives. Her responsibilities include cataloging and researching artifacts and creating and editing content for the museum’s website and other promotional materials.

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