Dr. Holly Pittman is the Director and Permit Holder of the Lagash Archaeological Project. She is the Bok Family Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Art History in the History of Art department at the University of Pennsylvania and is a Curator in the Near East Section of the Penn Museum. She worked at the site with Donald Hansen in 1990 and is seen in the photo taken in the winter of 2018 inside her bedroom from those earlier excavations.