New Staff Appointments Announced

New York, NY, April 5, 2000 - The American Numismatic Society (ANS) today announced staff changes. Dr. Elena Stolyarik, who has been the Curatorial Assistant and Registrar at the Society since 1994 was appointed ANS Collections Manager. Mr. Sebastian Heath, who has been the Society's Information Technology Consultant since September 1999, was appointed Director of Information Technology. The ANS Council approved the appointments at its most recent meeting on March 18, 2000.

Dr. Stolyarik graduated from the Department of History, Odessa State University and received her doctorate from Moscow State University. Dr. Stolyarik served as curator of the Numismatic Department of the Odessa Archaeological Museum of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and was a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. Dr. Stolyarik is the author of thirty-three articles and monographs related mainly to Greek, Late Roman and Byzantine coinage in the Black Sea region.

Sebastian Heath was hired by the ANS to develop both the content and appearance of the ANS website. Mr. Heath has redesigned and reorganized the existing content and has developed the digital image archive and on-line library card catalogue search engines with other ANS colleagues. Mr. Heath received a BA in Medieval Studies, from Brown University, and a Masters in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan, where he is presently a doctoral candidate in Classical Archaeology. Mr. Heath has published articles on scholarly databases and archaeological mapping and has lectured on Mediterranean archaeology and humanities computing.

The American Numismatic Society (ANS), founded in 1858, is a non-profit international center for the preservation and study of coins, medals and paper money, representing more than 2,500 years of material culture. The ANS collection contains close to one million objects and spans all periods and geographic areas, including Greek and Roman, medieval and modern European, American, Islamic, Asian and African coins, as well as other materials. In addition, the ANS holds the world's finest numismatic library, which is also strong in non-numismatic monographs and references on history, art, economics, language and culture. Both the collection and the library are open to the public.

For further information, contact Vanessa Samet at (212) 234-3130 ext. 231.