Yana van Dyke is a Conservator in the Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation. She joined the museum in 1999 as a Conservation Intern and earned her Masters of Science in Art Conservation from The Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2000. While specializing in the conservation of an enormously diverse collection of works of art on paper and parchment in general, Yana frequently liaisons with the departments of Medieval Art and the Cloisters, Asian Art, and the Islamic Art Department and has been involved in a number of exhibitions including Byzantium and Islam, The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures, Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting: The Palm Leaf Tradition, Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Prints and Drawings, as well as the reinstallation of the New Galleries for the Arts of Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South India. Yana is a recognized Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, a member of the International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation, the Society of Winterthur Fellows, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Institute of Paper Historians, and The Islamic Manuscript Association. Actively involved in both the U.S. and the international conservation community as instructor, mentor, and author, Yana's publications and workshops cover diverse areas such as: the practical use of enzymes in paper conservation, the conservation of Islamic manuscripts, Indian miniature paintings, and Buddhist manuscripts on palm leaves, the consolidation of media on paper and parchment, and the history and technique of intaglio printmaking.