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| Sheila Dillon, Associate Professor of Art History, Director of Graduate Studies and secondary faculty/Classical Studies | |||||||||
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Greek & Roman Art and Classical Studies Research Interests:
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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 Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which won the 2008 James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America. She has also co-edited a volume of essays entitled Representations of War in Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which was reviewed in the TLS (Feb. 2, 2007). Professor Dillon was a member of the Aphrodisias Excavations in Turkey from 1992-2003, and collaborated on the study and publication of Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias (Philipp von Zabern, 2006), the second volume in the Aphrodisias Monograph series. She is a recent recipient (2005-2006) of a National Endowment for the Humanities faculty fellowship for her project on female portrait statues in the Greek world; this book is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2010). Professor Dillon is also co-editing the Blackwell Companion to Women in Antiquity with her colleague Sharon James of UNC-Chapel Hill.
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