{{short description|German numismatist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox academic | name = Ute Wartenberg | honorific_suffix = FSA | birth_place = Saarbrücken, Saarland, West Germany<ref name="Rhodes">{{cite web|title=Alumni Profile: Ute Wartenberg Kagan|url=https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/media/41408/2017-june_newsletter-german-rhodes-community_corrected-2.pdf|access-date=21 June 2021|publisher=The Rhodes Trust|date=June 2017}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Ute Wartenberg Kagan|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG173928|access-date=15 June 2021|publisher=The British Museum}}</ref> | education = University of Saarbrücken (BA)<br />University of Oxford (DPhil) | image = UteWartenberg2021.jpg | caption = Wartenberg in 2021 | discipline = Papyrology | thesis_title = Some papyri from Oxyrhynchus | thesis_url = https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph011047237 | thesis_year = 1990 | module = {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes | office1 = President of the American Numismatic Society |term_start1 = 24 October 2020<ref name="ANSGovernance2021">{{cite web |title=American Numismantic Society Governance FY2021|url=http://numismatics.org/governance-fy2021/|access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref> |term_end1 = |president1 = |predecessor1 = Sydney F. Martin |successor1 = }} | workplaces = University of Oxford<br />British Museum<br />American Numismatic Society<br />Columbia University }} '''Ute Wartenberg''' <small>FSA</small> (born 1963) is a German numismatist and the first woman president and executive director of the American Numismatic Society (ANS). Wartenberg serves as an adjunct professor of classics at Columbia University and as the curator of the Amastris Collection, a private collection of Greek coins.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gilkes |first=Paul |date=8 November 2019 |title=Wartenberg steps down after two decades as ANS executive director |url=https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/wartenberg-steps-down-after-two-decades-as-ans-executive-director |magazine=Coin World |access-date=22 June 2021}}</ref>
Wartenberg obtained her D.Phil. in papyrology and classical literature from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and later taught there.<ref name="Rhodes" /><ref name="CoinsWeeklyFirstPresident">{{cite magazine|title=Ute Wartenberg Becomes First Female ANS President|url=https://coinsweekly.com/ute-wartenberg-becomes-first-female-ans-president/|date=5 November 2020|access-date=21 June 2021|magazine=Coins Weekly}}</ref> After two decades as ANS Executive Director, she took on a research curator role, before being elected as the ANS President in 2020. She returned to the role of Executive Director in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Noel |first=Caleb |date=2024-02-22 |title=Leadership Change at the American Numismatic Society |url=https://readingroom.money.org/leadership-change-at-the-american-numismatic-society/ |access-date=2026-02-16 |website=The Reading Room |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Career== Wartenberg received an undergraduate education at the University of Saarbrucken, where she studied ancient history.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kampmann |first=Ursula |date=2019-10-24 |title=Ute Wartenberg Resigns as Executive Director of the ANS |url=https://coinsweekly.com/ute-wartenberg-resigns-as-executive-director-of-the-ans/ |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=CoinsWeekly |language=en-US}}</ref> After graduating, she enrolled in the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, completing her dissertation entitled ''Some papyri from Oxyrhynchus'' in 1990 at the Faculty of Literae Humaniores.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Packer |first=Margaret M. |date=1989 |title=RESEARCH IN CLASSICAL STUDIES FOR UNIVERSITY DEGREES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43693902 |journal=Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies |issue=36 |pages=169–202 |issn=0076-0730}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A Hellenistic Bibliography - Apollonius of Rhodes |url=https://sites.google.com/site/hellenisticbibliography/hellenistic/apollonius-of-rhodes |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=sites.google.com |language=en-US}}</ref> From 1991 to 1998, Wartenberg was the Curator of Greek Coins at the British Museum in London. She then oversaw the American Numismatics Society as the executive director for twenty years. In 2000, she drove a controversial budget-cutting and reorganization to reduce the society's deficit, which included a move of the Society's facilities to a new location in the Manhattan Financial District, followed by a second move to SoHo.<ref>{{cite news |title=Coin Society's Plans Upset Some Members|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/08/arts/coin-society-s-plans-upset-some-members.html |work=New York Times|access-date=15 June 2021|date=8 January 2000|first=Laurence|last=Zuckerman}}</ref>
In 2002, Wartenberg was appointed to the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee of the United States Mint, of which she was later appointed Chairperson.<ref>{{cite web|title=Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee Welcomes Two New Members|url=https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/20020806-citizens-commemorative-coin-advisory-committee-welcomes-two-new-members|access-date=21 June 2021|date=6 August 2002|publisher=United States Mint}}</ref> Wartenberg was Chairperson of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee from 2003 to 2007.
In 2017, Wartenberg was appointed on the Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force committee of the Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|title=ICTA Names 11 to Task Force Steering Committee|date=February 2017 |url=https://acefonline.org/icta-names-11-to-task-force/ |access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref>
Since 2008, she has been a Trustee of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial in New Hampshire.<ref>{{cite web|title=Board of Trustees|url=https://saint-gaudens.org/trustees/|access-date=15 June 2011|publisher=The Sait-Gaudens Memorial|archive-date=24 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624224423/https://saint-gaudens.org/trustees/|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was a Trustee, President and CEO of the Annie Tinker Association for Women from 2009-18. Wartenberg has served on the Committee of the International Numismatic Council since 2015. In 2019, she was elected Chairperson of ICOM International Committee for Money and Banking Museums.<ref name="CoinsWeeklyFirstPresident" />
==Research== Wartenberg has published widely in research journals and numismatic publications and is a well-known editor, co-editor, and contributor for major research publications in numismatics. These include ''White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage'' with ANS Chief Curator Peter van Alfen, as well as numismatic Festschriften, including ''Presbeus: Studies in Ancient Coinage Presented to Richard Ashton'' with Andrew Meadows and ''ΚΑΙΡΟΣ: Contributions to Numismatics in Honor of Basil Demetriadi''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://numismatics.org/ute-wartenberg/ | title=Ute Wartenberg | access-date=11 August 2022 | archive-date=11 August 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811213351/https://numismatics.org/ute-wartenberg/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Honors== Wartenberg was elected as Numismatic Ambassador in 2002. She was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2008. She was awarded the honorary award of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Geldgeschichte in Germany in 2015. In 2017 she was a Visiting Professor of the City of Wrocław, Poland.<ref name="CoinsWeeklyFirstPresident" />
==Personal life== She is married to Jonathan Kagan, a numismatist who also studied classics at Oxford.<ref name="Rhodes" />
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