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Greek & Roman Art
Sculpture
New Technologies for Visualizing Historical Materials

portraiture; the sculptural landscape of the ancient Greek city, funerary monuments

Current projects:

Honorific Practices and the Politics of Space on Hellenistic Delos:Portrait Statue Monuments along the Dromos, Death and the Art of Sculpture in Athens, Classical to Neoclassical

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.

Education:

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

Teaching (Spring 2012):   (typical courses)

• Arthist 103.01, Women in classical world Synopsis

  East duke 108, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• Arthist 395.01, Women in antiquity Synopsis

  Study away, W 05:00 PM-08:00 PM

1.  The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World. Cambridge University Press, (March, 2010). [available here] [BMCR review] [Schultz review AJA] [TLS review]
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.) [available here] [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) [BMCR review]
4. S. Dillon and K. Welch, editors. Representations of War in Ancient Rome. Cambridge University Press, (2009). [available here] [TLS review]
5. S. Dillon and S. James, co-editors. The Blackwell Companion to Women in the Ancient World.   (January, 2012).
6. "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. [available here]
7. "Women on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus and the Visual Language of Roman Victory." Representations of War in Ancient Rome. Edited by Sheila Dillon and Katherine Welch.  (April, 2006).
8. "Subject selection and viewer reception of Greek portraits from Herculaneum and Tivoli." Journal of Roman Archaeology  vol. 13 (Fall, 2000): 21-40.
9. "Figured Pilaster Capitals from Aphrodisias in Caria." American Journal of Archaeology  vol. 1997 no. 101 (October, 1997): 731-69. [html]
10. "The portraits of a civic benefactor of 2nd-c. Ephesos." Journal of Roman Archaeology  vol. 1996 no. 9 (Fall, 1996): 261-74.
11. "Portraits and Portraiture." Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Edited by Michael Gagarin.  (2010).