Jessica Walthew (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow. For 8 years she was a conservator at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum working with the Product Design and Decorative Arts and Digital departments. Her research and teaching interests include theory and history of conservation, plastics, sustainability, and digital media. She is a graduate of the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She has worked on archaeological projects in Turkey, Italy, and Peru, and held post-graduate fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Bard Graduate Center/American Museum of Natural History.