About the Authors Faya Causey Herant Khanjian Faya Causey is the head of the academic programs Herant Khanjian is an assistant scientist at the Getty department at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Conservation Institute, where has worked since 1988. He DC. She was educated at the University of California, specializes in the study of organic material found in receiving her BA at UC Riverside and her MA and PhD traditional and modern works of art, using Fourier- degrees at UC Santa Barbara. A lifelong fascination with transform infrared spectroscopy. the ancient resin began on a student trip to the British Technical Essay: Analysis of Selected Ambers from the Museum, where she first encountered Etruscan carved Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum ambers. Causey began her professional life as an academic, teaching at the Art Center College of Design and Jeff Maish California State University, Long Beach. She has lectured and published internationally on antiquity, contemporary Jeff Maish is a conservator of antiquities at the J. Paul art, and museums. She is the author of Amber and the Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, where he has worked Ancient World (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012). since 1988. He has conducted research and worked on the treatment of Attic ceramics and bronzes in the Getty’s collection and in cooperation with other institutions, in addition to his work with ambers. Technical Essay: Analysis of Selected Ambers from the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum Michael R. Schilling Michael R. Schilling is a senior scientist in charge of the organic materials laboratory of the Getty Conservation Institute, where he has worked since 1983. Technical Essay: Analysis of Selected Ambers from the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum 297