Duke and UNC Duke University University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Consortium for Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology

Sheila DillonSheila Dillon

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

Education

  • 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, where she collaborated on the study and publication of the portrait statuary, The Roman Portrait Statuary of Aphrodisias, volume II of 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.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • James R. Wiseman Book Award for Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture, Archaeological Institute of America, January, 2008
  • Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, 2006-2007
  • Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2005-2006
  • Millard Meiss Publication Grant, College Art Association, November 2004
  • Faculty Fellow, John Hope Franklin Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University, 2002-2003
  • Rome Prize Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology, American Academy in Rome, 1997-1998

Representative Publications

(More Publications)

  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. with 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, reissued in paperback 2009. [available here] [TLS review]
  5. S. Dillon and S. James, co-editors. The Blackwell Companion to Women in the Ancient World.  , January, January, 2012.

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