During Rogers’ tenure, the issues of museum ownership of other nations’ cultural property and of Holocaust restitutions aroused considerable concern. In response, the MFA conducted extensive provenance research on antiquities and European art in its collection, and the museum reached numerous ownership resolutions with Holocaust victims and foreign nations. Despite arguments with Guatemala in the late ’90s, the vast majority of repatriation inquiries resulted in mutually agreed conclusions with estates/heirs and countries, including Italy, Turkey, and Nigeria, as well as the resolution of Holocaust claims whenever justified. A non-combative approach to repatriation conversations with Italy led to a successful cultural partnership between the museum and the country. In 2003, Rogers established the Monica S. Sadler Curator for Provenance, an endowed role focused exclusively on collection-based provenance research, repatriation claims, and the rightful ownership of cultural property. The MFA’s Curator of Provenance was the first position of its kind in the U.S.