Simon Armistead

Simon Armistead is the director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He's an egyptologist by training and that has been where most of his field work was done. He had served as curator of the Peabody's egyptology collection since 1911 and was in that position when the museum's director was killed in a streetcar accident on the day that the armistice was announced. Armistead was quickly appointed to fill the position.
Armistead is generally considered to be a competent administrator. He is somewhat less adept at navigating the rather treacherous waters of donors, the administration, and the university regents, all of whom all feel free to pull in random directions as their whims take them.
What Armistead fully understands is that this is a treacherous time for museums and those that fail to act decisively will soon find themselves falling behind.