Sheila Dillon, Associate Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and Classical Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	106 East Duke Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-6082, (919) 684-2224
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AAH/faculty/sdillon

Teaching (Spring 2012):

• ARTHIST 103.01, WOMEN IN CLASSICAL WORLD Synopsis

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

  (also cross-listed as CLST 103.01, VMS 101A.01)

• ARTHIST 395.01, WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY Synopsis

  STUDY AWAY, W 05:00 PM-08:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as CLST 395.01)

Office Hours:

Tuesdays 11-1, or by appointment

Education:

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

Specialties:

Greek & Roman Art
Sculpture
New Technologies for Visualizing Historical Materials

Research Interests:

Current projects: Statue Worlds in Ancient Greece: Sanctuary, Cemetery, City, House, Portrait statue monuments on the island of Delos

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. Her book Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (2006) 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), which was reviewed in the TLS (Feb. 2, 2007). 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 is currently co-editing the Blackwell Companion to Women in Antiquity with her colleague Sharon James of UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

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

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (March, 2010), Cambridge University Press [available here] [BMCR review] [Schultz review AJA] [TLS review]
2. 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..) [available here] [AJA on-line review by E. D'Ambra] [BMCR review by P. Schultz] [Journal of Hellenic Studies review by Jeremy Tanner]
3. with R.R.R. Smith, C.H. Hallett, J. Lenaghan, J. Van Voorhis, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias (June, 2006), Philipp von Zabern, Mainz Germany (Reviews: J. Tanner, BMCR 2007.04.07.) [BMCR review]
4. S. Dillon and K. Welch, editors, Representations of War in Ancient Rome (reissued in paperback 2009), Cambridge University Press [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, in Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context, edited by Ralf von den Hoff and Peter Schultz (October, 2007), pp. 63-83, Cambridge University Press [available here]
7. Women on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus and the Visual Language of Roman Victory, in Representations of War in Ancient Rome, edited by Sheila Dillon and Katherine Welch (April, 2006), Cambridge University Press
8. Subject selection and viewer reception of Greek portraits from Herculaneum and Tivoli, Journal of Roman Archaeology, vol. 13 (Fall, 2000), pp. 21-40
9. Figured Pilaster Capitals from Aphrodisias in Caria, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 1997 no. 101 (October, 1997), pp. 731-69 [html]
10. The portraits of a civic benefactor of 2nd-c. Ephesos, Journal of Roman Archaeology, vol. 1996 no. 9 (Fall, 1996), pp. 261-74
11. Portraits and Portraiture, in Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Michael Gagarin (2010), Oxford University Press

Selected Grant Support

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