Dominic Hall, MA, ALM
Manager, Curation and Stewardship, Anatomy and Artifact Collections
Dominic has been the Manager, Curation and Stewardship, Anatomy and Artifact Collections and the curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum collection in the Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library since 2007. He’s responsible for both managing the historical anatomy and pathology collections of Harvard's legacy medical museum, and developing the modern medical artifact collections associated with the Center's manuscript and archival holdings. Dominic’s the primary point of contact for all museum collections, and is responsible for acquisitions, loans, collections management, research, outreach, and exhibition. One of his chief goals for the museum collections has been integrating them into the special collections environment at the Countway's Center for the History of Medicine, and orienting the mission of the historical specimen collection into the modern academic community and for greater appreciation by the general public.
Dominic received a BA in history from Colgate University and a MA in Museology from the University of Washington, Seattle. Dominic earned an additional MA in Liberal Arts, History from the Harvard Extension School where he wrote a thesis entitled "The Catholic Brahmin and the Anatomy Act of 1898: Thomas Dwight and the Normalization of the Medical Cadaver Supply in Late Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts." With Jon Cornwall, Thomas H. Champney, Carlina de la Cova, Sabine Hildebrandt, Jason C. Mussell, Andreas Winkelmann, and Valerie B. DeLeon, he collaborated on the American Association for Anatomy's "Recommendations for the Management of Legacy Anatomical Collections," published in The Anatomical Record on March 18, 2024. He was a member of Harvard's Steering Committee on Human Remains in University Museum Collections and is currently an ex-officio member of Harvard's Human Remains in the Harvard Museum Collections Research Review and Human Remains in the Harvard Museum Collections Returns committees. Dominic is a past president of the Medical Museum Association.