Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Borromeo’s research has focused primarily on the ancient contexts of Roman sculpture and the materials and techniques artists used in antiquity. She has excavated in various archaeological sites in Greece, Israel, Italy, and Turkey while contributing research articles to numerous publications. Additionally, she has worked on cultural property issues and co-led the RISD Museum’s repatriation of a now deaccessioned Benin head of an oba to Nigeria.

Prior to her return to Brown University and Providence, Borromeo was Senior Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the Walters Art Museum, in which role she served as the senior curator for the Walters’ collection of ancient art, in addition to being responsible for the museum’s conservation, technical research, and collections departments; publication and digital production; and the Walters’ other curatorial areas. Borromeo joined the Walters from the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she served as Chief Curator and Curator of Ancient Art. During her tenure at RISD, she planned and directed the reinstallation of the Greek and Roman galleries and the Egyptian galleries, and curated the exhibitions Rethinking the Romans: New Views of Ancient Sculpture, Dig the Museum, and Made for Eternity, and co-curated the interdepartmental exhibition entitled Being and Believing in the Natural World. Borromeo has served on the Museums and Exhibitions Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America and on the Council of the Association of Art Museum Curators. She has also served on the Boards of the Humanities Forum of Rhode Island, and Brown University's Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.

Borromeo earned her Master of Arts and Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture from Brown University, during which time she was a Fulbright Scholar in Rome and a Samuel H. Kress Fellow.