Featured Alumni

Greg Lambousy (BA 1989 & MA 1993)

Profession: The Director of Collections at the Louisiana State Museum

Greg Lambousy is the Director of Collections at the Louisiana State Museum, managing a collection of over 450,000 artifacts both on exhibit and in storage with administrative duties including supervision of a staff of five curators and two registrars. He has an MA in History from the University of New Orleans and has been at the Louisiana State Museum for 12 years. He was previously curator of exhibits at the Louisiana State Museum, responsible for the development and fabrication of exhibitions and the care and interpretation of artifacts on exhibit. He has also worked as a preparator at the New Orleans Museum of Art and as a contract archaeologist in the anthropology department at the Smithsonian Institution and for Coastal Environments, Inc.   

In 2000 he was the project director for the conservation of a Civil War-era submarine funded by the Institute for Museum & Library Services and the Azby Fund.  He has most recently collected artifacts and conducted oral histories related to the hurricanes of 2005 and was the project director for the evacuation and return move of over 200,000 artifacts and the Louisiana Historical Center to improved storage at the Old US Mint building following Hurricane Katrina. This project involved grants from a number of private and governmental agencies including the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Museum & Library Services.

Serving as acting music curator at the Louisiana State Museum since 2004, Lambousy has also been the project director for two separate grants from the National Film Preservation Foundation for the digitization of films from the State Museum’s jazz collection and has expanded the music holdings at the museum by collecting a wide variety of artifacts related to jazz and other musical forms flourishing within Louisiana.

Lambousy is currently the project director for an IMLS conservation project support grant and Getty Foundation grant that involve a series of over 1,500 condition reports and treatment proposals across collections in preparation for future conservation treatments. This will allow the State Museum to systematically prioritize its conservation needs. The Getty Foundation grant also funds a feasibility study for a regional conservation lab.

He is a member of the American Institute for Conservation Collections Emergency Response Team (AIC-CERT). Sixty people from around the country were trained in the AIC-CERT program to assess damage and initiate salvage of cultural collections after a disaster has occurred.

He has published widely on topics related to Louisiana history. Lambousy earned B.A. Degrees in Anthropology and History, with a minor in Philosophy.

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