Board of Directors

SIGILLVM is administered by a board of directors. Their particular duties for the network are stated in brackets: 

  • Dr Michael Andersen is curator at the Nationalmuseet/The National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
  • Professor Brigitte Bedos-Rezak is professor of the History of Medieval Europe at the New York University.
  • Mr Jean-Luc Chassel is a researcher at the Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre.
  • Mr John Cherry (treasurer) is curator emeritus [a former curator] at the British Museum in London.
  • Professor Julian Gardner is professor emeritus in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick
  • Professor Zsolt Hunyadi is associate professor at the Institute of History, University of Szeged (Hungary).
  • Dr Marc Libert is Chef de Section at the State Archives of Belgium, Brussels.
  • Dr Elizabeth New (chair) is senior lecturer in medieval history at Aberystwyth University.
  • Mrs Marie-Adélaïde Nielen (newsletter editor) is a senior archivist at the Archives nationales de France in Paris.
  • Dr Gustav Pfeifer is vice-director of the Südtiroler Landesarchiv/Archivio provinciale in Bozen/Bolzano.
  • Agnès Prevost is chief-restaurator at the Service des sceaux of the Archives nationales de France in Paris.
  • Dr John Rassweiler (secretary) is a collector of medieval matrices and seals.
  • Dr James Robinson is Keeper of Metalwork and Sculpture, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
  • Dr Markus Späth is a Dilthey-Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Gießen.

Former director(s):

  • Professor Paul D.A. Harvey is professor emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Durham (2007-2017).
  • Helena Sedlácková is an archivist at the Nation Archives of the Czech Republic, Prague (2007-2011).