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Sheila Dillon, Associate Professor, Art & Art History and secondary faculty/Classical Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	106 East Duke Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-6082, (919) 684-2224
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• ARTHIST 495S.01, HONORS THESIS WORKSHOP Synopsis

  Smith Wrhs A266, F 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

  (also cross-listed as ARTSVIS 495S.01, VMS 495S.01)

• VMS 334.01, ROMAN SPECTACLE Synopsis

  Smith Wrhs A290, TuTh 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

  (also cross-listed as ARTHIST 334.01, CLST 354.01)

• ARTHIST 723S.01, GRANT WRITING AND PROSPECTUS Synopsis

  Smith Wrhs A266, Th 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

Office Hours:

Professor Dillon is on leave 2005-2006.

Education:

Ph.D.	New York University	1994
M.A.	New York University	1989
B.A.	Rutgers University New Brunswick	1987
AAS	Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY

Specialties:

Greek & Roman Art
Sculpture
New Technologies for Visualizing Historical Materials

Research Interests: Greek sculpture; portraiture; funerary monuments

Sheila Dillon received a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her fields of research and teaching are Greek and Roman art. Her most recent book is entitled The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (Cambridge University Press 2010), a project for which she received an NEH faculty fellowship in 2005 and which has just been released in paperback (2011). Her book Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (2006; paperback edition 2012) was awarded the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in January 2008. She has also co-edited a volume of essays entitled Representations of War in Ancient Rome (2006). Professor Dillon was a member of the Aphrodisias Excavations in Turkey from 1992-2004, and collaborated on the study and publication of Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias (2006), the second volume in the Aphrodisias Monograph series. She co-edited A Companion to Women in the Ancient World with her colleague Sharon James of UNC-Chapel Hill (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and is developing a project on death and the art of sculptural commemoration in Athens from the 5th century BCE to the 19th century CE, which will leverage digital visualization for recreating standing monument cemeteries.

Keywords:

Europe • Greece • Rome • Art History • Classics • Portraits

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Marianne E Wardle  
• Lindsey Mazurek  
• Elizabeth Baltes  
• Rachel L. Meyers  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Dillon, S, The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (March, 2010), Cambridge University Press [available here]
2. Dillon, S, Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (April, 2006), Cambridge University Press (Winner of the 2008 James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America..) [Ancient]
3. with Dillon, S; Smith, RRR; Hallett, CH; Lenaghan, J; Voorhis, JV, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias (June, 2006), Philipp von Zabern, Mainz Germany (Reviews: J. Tanner, BMCR 2007.04.07.)
4. Dillon, S; Welch, K, Representations of War in Ancient Rome (paperback) (2009), Cambridge University Press [of%20War%20in%20Ancient%20Rome/?site_locale=en_US]
5. S. Dillon and S. James, co-editors, The Blackwell Companion to Women in the Ancient World (January, 2012)
6. Dillon, S, Portraits of Women in the early Hellenistic Period, in Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context, edited by Hoff, RVD; Schultz, P (October, 2007), pp. 63-83, Cambridge University Press [available here]
7. Dillon, S, Women on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus and the Visual Language of Roman Victory, in Representations of War in Ancient Rome, edited by Dillon, S; Welch, K (April, 2006), pp. 244-271, Cambridge University Press
8. Sheila Dillon, , Subject selection and viewer reception of Greek portraits from Herculaneum and Tivoli, Journal of Roman Archaeology, vol. 13 (Fall, 2000), pp. 21-40
9. Sheila Dillon, , Figured Pilaster Capitals from Aphrodisias in Caria, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 1997 no. 101 (October, 1997), pp. 731-769 [html]
10. Sheila Dillon, , The portraits of a civic benefactor of 2nd-c. Ephesos, Journal of Roman Archaeology, vol. 9 no. 9 (Fall, 1996), pp. 261-274

Selected Grant Support

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Faculty Fellowship: 2005-2006.      
• Millard Meiss Publication Grant, 2004, College Art Association.