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Greek & Roman Art and Classical Studies

portraiture; representations of women;the cemetery and the sanctuary in Classical Athens; terracotta votive figurines and the archaeology of Greek religion

Current projects:

Citizen, Metic, Slave: Women on Attic gravestones, Cemetery and Society in Hellenistic Delos, votive sculpture from the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace

Area of Interest: Greek sculpture
digital technologies for visualizing historical materials

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, entitled The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World, is in press with Cambridge University Press (February 2010). Professor Dillon is also co-editing the Blackwell Companion to Women in Antiquity with her colleague Sharon James of UNC-Chapel Hill.

Education:

• PhD New York University, Institute of Fine Arts 1994
• BA Rutgers University 1987
• AAS Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY 1980

Teaching (Spring 2010):   (typical courses)

• Arthist 69d.001, Intro to history of art Synopsis

  East duke 204b, TuTh 02:50 PM-03:40 PM

• Arthist 69d.01d, Intro to history of art Synopsis

  East duke 108, F 08:30 AM-09:20 AM

• Arthist 69d.02d, Intro to history of art Synopsis

  East duke 108, F 10:05 AM-10:55 AM

1.  The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World. In press, Cambridge University Press, (February, 2010).
2.  Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles. Cambridge University Press, (April, 2006). (Winner of the 2008 James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America.) [catalogue.asp] [AJA on-line review by E. D'Ambra] [BMCR review by P. Schultz] [Journal of Hellenic Studies review by Jeremy Tanner]
3. R.R.R. Smith, C.H. Hallett, J. Lenaghan, J. Van Voorhis. Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz Germany, (June, 2006). (Reviews: J. Tanner, BMCR 2007.04.07) [controller.php] [BMCR review]
4. S. Dillon and K. Welch. Representations of War in Ancient Rome.   (April, 2006). [catalogue.asp] [H-Net book review] [TLS review]
5. "Portraits of Women in the early Hellenistic Period." Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context. Edited by Ralf von den Hoff and Peter Schultz.  (October, 2007): 63-83. [catalogue.asp]
6. "Subject selection and viewer reception of Greek portraits from Herculaneum and Tivoli." Journal of Roman Archaeology  vol. 13 (Fall, 2000): 21-40.