Rob Lancefield
Yale Center for British Art (retired)
Head of IT (retired)
Connecticut, USA
Rob Lancefield (retired) was most recently Head of IT at the Yale Center for British Art. Before that, he led digital work at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Connecticut, US), where he led the policy development and technical implementation of DAC Open Access Images in 2012. Rob is a former president of MCN and a current Finance Committee member. He chairs the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Council of Affiliates, a council of leadership representatives from 28 national organizations, and is a co-founder of the ImageMuse group for digital imaging professionals in cultural heritage institutions. His interests include strategy, sustainability, leadership, hiring practices, project design, digital collections, and nonprofit governance. Rob has spoken on interviewing, collections systems, image infrastructure, open content, digitization, data standards, getting projects done, repatriating sound from archives to heritage communities, and other topics at MCN and other conferences. His PhD dissertation examined how experiences of the musical voice and body lent false credence to beliefs about racial difference, and he curated the traveling exhibition Performing Images, Embodying Race on related visual culture. Rob co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation (Oxford University Press, 2019) and produced the 2011 reissue of 1980s recordings by Talking Drums, an ensemble of Ghanaian and American musicians including himself, for re-release by the American Composers Forum on innova Recordings.
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