Who We Are

International Catacomb Society Officers, Directors and Staff (2023-2024)          

Executive Officers
President, Robin Jensen
Vice President, Arthur Urbano
Treasurer, Pamela Worstell

Secretary, Jessica Dello Russo

Board of Directors *
John Ambrose, NH (2024)
David Basile, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (ex officio)
Jennifer Berry, M.A., Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA (2026)
Matthew Berry, MD, Los Angeles, CA (2026)
John Bodel, Ph.D., Brown University, Providence, RI (2025)
Joan Branham, Ph.D., Providence College, Providence, RI (2025)
Jessica Dello Russo, Ph.D., Center for Israel Studies, Yeshiva University (2025)
Nicola Denzey Lewis, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA (2025)
Annewies van den Hoek, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2024)
Robin Jensen, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (2024)
Jodi Magness, Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC (2024)
Arthur Urbano, Ph.D., Providence College, Providence, RI (2026)
Alfred Wolsky, Esq., Arlington, MA (2024)
Pamela Worstell, Esq., Wayland, MA (2026)

Advisory Board
Patrick Alexander, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA
Angelo Di Berardino, O.S.A., Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Rome, Italy
Sible de Blaauw, Radbout Universiteit Nijmegen (emeritus), Nijmegen, The Netherlands
William Caraher, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Joseph Greene, Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (retired), Albuquerque, NM
John Herrmann, Museum of Fine Arts (emeritus), Boston, MA
Colum P. Hourihane, Princeton Index of Christian Art, Director (emeritus)
Paolo Liverani, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy; Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology, Vatican City
Christoph Markschies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Tessa Rajak, Somerville College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Zeev Weiss, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel


* ICS Standing and Ad Hoc Committees for 2023-2024:
Financial Affairs: Pamela Worstell (treasurer & chair), John Ambrose, Alfred Wolsky, David Basile (ex officio).
Subcommittee for Development: John Ambrose, John Bodel, Matthew Berry, Annewies van den Hoek, Robin Jensen
Nominating and By-Laws: Alfred Wolsky (chair), Annewies van den Hoek, Robin Jensen.
Academic/Shohet Scholars: Nicola Denzey Lewis (chair), Robin Jensen, John Bodel, Joan Branham, Jessica Dello Russo, Annewies van den Hoek, Jodi Magness, Arthur Urbano.
Website/Media: Arthur Urbano (chair), Joan Branham, Jessica Dello Russo, Nicola Denzey Lewis, Annewies van den Hoek, Robin Jensen.
Archives: Jessica Dello Russo (chair), Jennifer Berry, Matthew Berry, Alfred Wolsky, Pamela Worstell.


Emeriti/In Memoriam:

Mark D. Altschule (1906-1988)
Miriam Balmuth (1925-2004)
Eleanor Bloom (1921-2016)
Jack Bloom (1921-2006)
Baldassare Conticello (1932-2011)
Salvatore Fornari (1900-1993)
Carney Gavin (1939-2014)
James M. Gavin (1907-1990)
Jean Gavin (1924-2016)
Milton Glass (1929-2017)
Jonathan Kagan 
Louise LaGorce Hickey (+1987)
Amy K. Hirschfeld
Douglas McNair
Henry A. Millon (1927-2018)
David Gordon Mitten (1935-2022)
Philip Olander
Leon Pomerance (1907-1988)
John William Pye (1948-2016)
Nitza Rosovsky
Nora Rossi
Sandra Scheiber
Allen I. Swartz (1924-2018)
Theodore H. Teplow (1928-)
Cornelius C. Vermeule (1925-2008)
Howard Weintraub (1930-2011)
Leonard Wolsky, MD (1923-1996)

(Photo: Visitors to Vigna Randanini with Alberto Marcocci, long-time caretaker of the catacombs and guide to Estelle Brettman. The visitors are: John Herrmann, Claudia Moser, and Heidi Wendt.)

 

 

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