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Sophie Ong, Recent PhD and Assistant Director at the Toledo Museum of Art, Quoted in The New York Times

  • Sophie Ong in graduation robes outside Rutgers Art History Department.
  • September 1, 2026

  • Can a Museum Accept Artifacts With Slim Records? Toledo Has a Plan.

    Curators from Ethiopia and the Toledo Museum will study a prized, but thinly documented, trove of antiquities to decide which must be returned because of questionable provenance.

     https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/arts/ethiopian-artifacts-toledo-museum-provenance.html

    Sophie Ong recently completed her PhD in the Art History Department.  Her dissertation was supervised by Laura Weigert. Sophie is assistant director for strategic initiatives at the Toledo Museum of Art.