as williams director of the university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology (2007–12) hodges, at the request of the university’s provost, embarked upon a programme to create a modern museum accessible to penn students and to k-12 schoolchildren and philadelphians. restructuring the museum involved re-positioning the research staff, modernizing the curatorial and exhibition programmes, as well as changing the education, catering, marketing and gallery programmes. this led to a successful campaign to refurbish the museum’s west wing, to install new teaching facilities, to install new travelling exhibition galleries, and to implement a digital programme to put the museum's international collections online.