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Professor Doehne

Eric Doehne

Visiting Lecturer in Art Conservation
Art Conservation
Phone: 72766
eric.doehne@ScrippsCollege.edu

Biography

As an adjunct lecturer, Eric Doehne teaches six interdisciplinary art conservation courses at Scripps that attract a core audience of art conservation majors, artists, historians, chemists, environmental analysts, and computer scientists, as well as students from over 35 majors across the five colleges. Since 2011, these courses have delved into the complex and engaging issues surrounding the art and science of cultural heritage preservation. His most recent course on Digital Preservation, ARCN144, is a Mellon-funded Digital Humanities course, while his most popular course, ARCN115, captures multiple aspects of art crime.

Eric’s research activities include a scientific study of an ancient mosaic for the FBI, environmental monitoring and a deterioration mechanism study for the Alamo, and a training course on stone preservation at Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt.

Eric Doehne is a geologist, electron microscopist, and conservation scientist specializing in historic materials, such as ancient pigments, ceramics and stone. He is a materials scientist who has analyzed the preservation and technology of the Dead Sea scrolls, the Sistine Chapel, Laetoli Footprints (3.6 mya), and the First Photograph (1826). A staff scientist and consultant for the Getty for many years, in 2012, Dr. Doehne was the International Chair for the PATRIMA project in French cultural heritage preservation.

Academic History

  • B.S.  Geology, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA
  • M.S.  Geology, University of California, Davis, USA
  • Ph.D.  Geology, University of California, Davis, USA

Academic Focus

Materials science applied to art, archaeology, architecture and archives; Interdisciplinary projects in art conservation and conservation science.

Courses Taught

  • Art Conservation ARCN115: Art and Crime: Plunder, Fakes and Forensics (Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022)
  • Art Conservation ARCN110: Artists’ Materials—Ancient and Modern (Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2023)
  • Art Conservation ARCN101: Introduction to Art Conservation (Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2018, Fall 2022)
  • Art Conservation ARCN120: Global Tourism, Climate Change and World Heritage Preservation (Fall 2011, Fall 2015, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Spring 2024)
  • Art Conservation ARCN125: Preserving Cultural Landscapes (Spring 2016, Spring 2021)
  • Art Conservation ARCN144: Digital Preservation and Cultural Sustainability (Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2023)

Selected Research and Publications

    Spotlight Article
  • May 11, 2023, Digital Preservation Class Digitizes Scripps Campus and Archives, By Lauren Mar ’25
  • Wensen Ma,, Oliver Cossairt, Xiang Huang, Marc Walton, Greg Bearman, and Eric Doehne, 2015, Crowd-sourced Mobile Phone Images for Heritage Conservation Monitoring, Digital Heritage 2015, Granada, Spain. Link.
  • Marcello Manfredi, Greg Bearman, Greg Williamson, Dale Kronkright, Eric Doehne, Megan Jacobs, Emilio Marengo, 2014, A new quantitative method for the non-invasive documentation of morphological damage in paintings using RTI surface normals, Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 14(7), 12271-12284. Link.
  • Gregory Bearman, Eric Doehne, Jon Voss, Kim Merrill, Rohitashwa Bagaria, 2013,  Citizen Science and Mobile Phone Cameras as Tools for Monitoring World Heritage. In Built Heritage 2013 -Monitoring Conservation Management.  Edited by: Lucia Toniolo and Maurizio Boriani. The Center for the Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage Milan:  Politecnico di Milano. Link.
  • Greg Bearman, Eric Doehne, Luther Beegle, William Hug, Ray Reid, Rohit Bhartia, 2013,  Remote Detection of Biofilms on Stone. In Built Heritage 2013 - Monitoring Conservation Management.  Edited by: Lucia Toniolo and Maurizio Boriani. The Center for the Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage Milan:  Politecnico di Milano. Link.
  • Eric Doehne & Clifford Price, 2010, Stone Conservation:  An Overview of Current Research, 2nd Edition, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 180 p.November 2010.
  • Doehne, Eric. Salt Weathering: A Selective Review. 2002 Geological Society Special Publication (205), p. 51-64.
  • Rodriguez-Navarro, C., Doehne, Eric. "How Does Sodium Sulfate Crystallize? Implications for the Decay and Testing of Building Materials." 2000 Cement and Concrete Research 30 (10), p. 1527-1534.
  • Rodriguez-Navarro, C., Doehne, Eric. "Salt Weathering: Influence of Evaporation Rate, Supersaturation and Crystallization Pattern." 1999 Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 24 (2-3), p. 191-209.
  • Doehne, Eric. "A New Correction Method for High-resolution Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Analyses in the Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope." 1997 Scanning Journal 19 (2), p. 75-78.
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