Lynn Rother is Lichtenberg Professor of Provenance Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Adjunct Curator for Provenance at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Previously, she served as Senior Provenance Specialist at MoMA (2015–2019) and as a research associate at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2008–2014), where she focused on provenance research and digital initiatives. She has held fellowships at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2014–2015) and the German Historical Institute in Moscow (2011). Rother studied art history, economics, and law at the University of Leipzig, earning her M.A. in 2008. She completed her Ph.D. in art history at the Technische Universität Berlin in 2015 under the supervision of Bénédicte Savoy. Her recent scholarship, published in peer-reviewed journals and industry publications, concentrates on the future of cataloguing and the role of provenance research in shaping institutional accountability. Among her most recent works are: Lynn Rother, Max Koss, and Fabio Mariani, “The Future of Provenance: Digital Cataloguing as Reparative Practice,” in The Next Horizon of Museum Practice: Voluntary Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparations, edited by Elizabeth Merritt (Arlington, VA: American Alliance of Museums, 2024); and “Provenance as Accountability: Transparent and Verifiable Cataloguing for the Digital Age,” forthcoming in the Elgar Research Handbook on Art, Culture, Heritage and Law.