Leslie Hammond, Ph.D., possesses decades of experience as an Art Appraiser, Art Historian, Archaeologist, and Museum Professional. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from Ohio State University, a Masters in Classical Archaeology from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in Art History and Archaeology, and a minor in Museum Studies. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and scholarships including Fulbright and Samuel H. Kress Fellowships which supported her dissertation research.

Appraiser
Dr. Hammond has obtained the designation of Accredited Senior Appraiser of Fine Arts through the American Society of Appraisers. With this designation she specializes in the appraisal and identification of European and American fine art (painting and works on paper) from the 19th through 21st centuries but also has extensive experience with Mediterranean Antiquities (ancient archaeological artifacts) from Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Italy.

Museum Professional
Hammond has experience with archaeological and fine art collections in public and private museums.   She has worked with collections in the context of care, storage, inventory, research, documentation, data management, international laws/treaties, publication, exhibition, acquisition development, and public and scholarly programming.

Art Historian
Western art history is the track Dr. Hammond studied toward her Ph.D. Her exams focused on the art, architecture, and humanities of ancient Greece and Italy from the Bronze Age through the Late Antique with special interest in Mediterranean religions and ceramic studies. 

Archaeologists
Field experiences include survey and excavation work as well as architectural drafting and artifact illustration posts at sites in the Mediterranean ranging from Pre-Dynastic Egyptian Cemeteries and Neolithic settlements to Early Christian basilicas. She also supervised excavations at a North American historic plantation home. She worked as registrar supervising artifact processing at the site of Mt. Lykaion in the Peloponnesus of Greece and the publication of the miniature ceramics from that site is forthcoming.