Title:	Associate Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and Classical Studies
Office Location:	106 East Duke Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-6082, (919) 684-2224
Email Address:	sheila.dillon@duke.edu
Web Page:	http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AAH/faculty/sdillon

Office Hours:

MW 1-2, or by appointment

• Arthist 103.01, Women in classical world Synopsis

  East duke 204b, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

• Clst 395.01, Topics in classical studies

  East duke 204a, W 06:00 PM-08:30 PM

• Arthist 395.01, Topics in art history

  East duke 204a, W 06:00 PM-08:30 PM

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

Research Interests:

Sheila Dillon received her Ph.D. 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). She has also co-edited a volume of essays entitled Representations of War in Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2006). 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 the female portrait in Greek art and society.

1.  The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World.  In press, Cambridge University Press, January, January, 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]
3. with R.R.R. Smith, C.H. Hallett, J. Lenaghan, J. Van Voorhis. Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias.  Philipp von Zabern, Mainz Germany, June, June, 2006. (Reviews: J. Tanner, BMCR 2007.04.07) [controller.php]
4. "Portraits of Women in the early Hellenistic Period." Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context. Edited by Ralf von den Hoff and Peter Schultz.  Cambridge University Press (October, 2007): 63-83. [catalogue.asp]
5. "Subject selection and viewer reception of Greek portraits from Herculaneum and Tivoli." Journal of Roman Archaeology  vol. 13  (Fall, 2000): 21-40.