Amy Buchan
Amy Buchan has over 20 years of experience working in nonprofit arts and cultural organizations and higher education in southwestern Pennsylvania and abroad. Before joining Rivers of Steel, Amy held positions as the Director of Development at the American University of Rome (Italy); Director of University Advancement at Central European University (Budapest, Hungary); and Senior Director of Corporate, Foundation and Government Relations at Chatham University (Pittsburgh). Amy first worked with Rivers of Steel on the Born of Fire partnership during her 12 year tenure as Associate Director / Director of Development and Finance at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art (Greensburg). That project featured a large-scale exhibition of the Museum’s industrial landscape paintings that traveled through Germany and Poland and led to major transatlantic educational partnership. She is the author of “From the Ruhr Valley to the Steel City and Back” a chapter in Museums in the Global Context, published by the American Alliance of Museums in 2013. Amy presented on the Born of Fire Project at TICCIH in Freiberg, Germany in 2009.
Amy holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Applied Piano from Westminster College (PA) and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Duquesne University.
In her role at Rivers of Steel, Amy oversees daily operations, including finances, budgets, grants, projects, programs, policies, and general business practices, among other duties. Amy’s passion for preserving the region’s industrial history is a tribute to her own heritage—her paternal grandfather was a Blacksmith at Latrobe Steel and her maternal great-grandfather was a coal miner. Amy is particularly interested in the intersection of our industrial heritage with the arts as well as the cultural traditions of the many immigrants who worked in the mines and mills.
Amy spends her free time reading and cooking, exploring the region’s parks, and biking and running on the Great Allegheny Passage. She lives in Homestead with her two world-traveling cats.
Sessions in which Amy Buchan attends
UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
Cocktail
Patrick Dieudonné, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Institut de Géoarchitecture, France (Other Participant)
Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Event
Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Presenter)
Christian Agbobli, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) (Presenter)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Roundtable
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
Regular session
Norbert Tempel, TICCIH (Chair)
Roman Hillmann, German Mining-Museum, Bochum (Chair)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
Regular session
Dag Avango, Luleå University of Technology (Moderator)
Marion Steiner, TICCIH International (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
Regular session
Norbert Tempel, TICCIH (Chair)
Roman Hillmann, German Mining-Museum, Bochum (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
Regular session
Dag Avango, Luleå University of Technology (Moderator)
Marion Steiner, TICCIH International (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
Regular session
Norbert Tempel, TICCIH (Chair)
Michael Prange, University of Applied science Georg Agricola (Moderator)
Ronald Mondor, Termarust Technologies (Panelist)
Eva Wentland, InduKon - network for the conservation of industrial heritage (Panelist)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Gérard Beaudet (Keynote speaker)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
Regular session
Mark Allan Rhodes II, Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program (Moderator)
Timothy Scarlett, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
Regular session
Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Speaker)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
Regular session
Florence Graezer Bideau, EPFL (Moderator)
Hushui Deng, EPFL (Presenter)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
Roundtable
Dag Avango, Luleå University of Technology (Moderator)
Marion Steiner, TICCIH International (Moderator)
Moulshri Joshi, SpaceMatters (Panelist)
Stefan Berger (Panelist)
Dr. Humberto Morales BUAP, Icgde-Buap (Panelist)
Mirhan Damir, Alexandria University, Egypt (Panelist)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
Regular session
Tomasz Jelenski, Cracow University of Technology (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
Paper
Elena Clarke (Speaker)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
Tour
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
Regular session
Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Stefan Berger (Speaker)
Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine
Cocktail
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Event
Hildebrand de Boer, European Route of Industrial Heritage - ERIH e.V. (Participant)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Event
Repas
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Panel
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Cathy Stanton, Tufts University (Speaker)
Usine C - Hall
Repas