Michele Bambling

Dr. Michele Bambling is founder and former Creative Director of Lest We Forget, an arts and cultural heritage project which she started with students of Zayed Univers the auspices of the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation in 2013. She has been creative director, curator and editor-in-chief of the series of Lest We Forget exhibitions and publications.

Dr. Michele Bambling holds Ph.D., M.Phil. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University in art history, specializing in Japanese art and photography. She received a pos-doctorate Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship from The Metropolitan Museum of Art where she also worked as a researcher in the Department of Asian Art. She was an Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Crea history, curatorial practices and visual art at the undergraduate level and museum studies in the graduate program. Currently Dr. Bambling is Associate Professor of Art History and Arts at New York University Abu Dhabi.