Lori Verderame

Lori Verderame (best known as Dr. Lori) is the star appraiser on the American TV show Auction Kings which airs internationally on Discovery channel. She is a TV personality, author, and antiques appraiser with a Ph.D. in art history and resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Lori Verderame serves as the antiquities expert on the History channel's #1 TV show, The Curse of Oak Island in season 4. She also appears as the Ph.D. Antiques Appraiser on FOX Business Network's TV show, Strange Inheritance in Season 2. She appears as the expert Ph.D. Antiques Appraiser on Discovery's Auction Kings in seasons 3 and season 4.

Verderame has been featured on The Tonight Show and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She has appeared on Anderson Live with Anderson Cooper, Daytime, The Balancing Act on Lifetime Television, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX. She presented the 'Trash or Treasure?' segment on KWY CBS3 TV in Philadelphia, PA. Since 2011, Verderame has been the art and antiques appraiser on Discovery's TV show Auction Kings. In the season 4 premiere of Auction Kings, Verderame authenticated eleven objects selected by the Gallery 63 cast for the Pick-Off episode. In season 4, Verderame appraised a writing desk owned by President Thomas Jefferson, a Moroccan saddle commissioned by the King of Morocco, Leroy Neiman prints of Joe Namath and Michael Jordan, a fire suit from the NASCAR movie Talladega Nights The Legend of Ricky Bobby. In season 3 of Auction Kings, Verderame shared appraised katara knives, Elizabeth Taylor movie memorabilia from the 1963 film Cleopatra, celebrity autographs, and Victorian chastity belts. In the season 4 finale episode of History channel's The Curse of Oak Island, Dr. Lori Verderame reviewed and provided historical perspective on treasure spoils discovered on Oak Island including a gold cross, gold plated button, and spike among other items.

A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Verderame graduated from Hamden High School in Hamden, CT. She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. She has a Master of Arts degree in Liberal Studies with an emphasis in History and Art History from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. She holds the Doctorate (Ph.D.) in the History of Art and Architecture from the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA.

Verderame has held directorial and curatorial positions in America including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Allentown Art Museum, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, and the Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College. She has lectured at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg Russia, the MFA in Boston, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence Italy, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Musee de Louvre in Paris France among others. Dr. Lori has also taught art history at Penn State University at University Park, PA, the State University of New York (SUNY) in Cortland, NY, Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT, Southern Connecticut State University in Hamden, CT, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, and Beaver College (Arcadia University) in Glenside, PA.

Verderame's column entitled "Art & Antiques by Dr. Lori" appears in more than 400 newspapers and magazines around the world. Her Lifetime blogs are entitled "Antiques and Your Home" and "Travel, Shop, Eat by Dr. Lori".

Since 1998, Verderame has presented "Dr. Lori's Antiques Appraisal Comedy Show" to audiences around the world and on cruise ships. The show is presented live and audience members bring their objects for appraisal as part of the unscripted live comedy appraisal stage show. Verderame appraises each object while injecting humor and information about the antique. Verderame estimates that she appraises 20,000 objects each year.