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Jana Dambrogio is the Thomas F. Petersen (1957) Conservator for the MIT Libraries and has been working as a conservator and bookbinder researching and teaching about books and material culture, to help better understand and protect the objects and technologies that tell us about the past. She has studied and conserved collections for the National Archives and Records Administration, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the Vatican Apostolic Archives. She is the recipient of the 2008 Booth Family Rome Prize in historic preservation and conservation at the American Academy in Rome. She is the Director of the Unlocking History research group.