Jana Dambrogio is the Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries. She is a conservator, educator, and artist specializing in developing freely-accessible resources and treatment techniques to conserve the integrity of artifacts and reveal the secrets they contain. Dambrogio previously held positions at the US National Archives, the United Nations, and the Vatican Apostolic Archives. In 2000, while working as a conservator in an ancient archive, she rediscovered a technique which she coined "letterlocking,” and in 2013 founded the Unlocking History Research Group with Daniel Starza Smith. In 2025, they published Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter (MIT Press). Dambrogio serves as the founding director and leads her team in focusing on developing this new field of study by creating resources to examine, document, categorize, and virtually unfold historic letters.