http://dukewired.org
Please note: Sheila has left the "Classical Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.
Sheila Dillon received a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She teaches courses on Greek and Graeco-Roman art and archaeology. Her research interests focus on portraiture and public sculpture and on reconstructing the statuary landscape of ancient cities and sanctuaries. Her books include The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (2010); Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (2006), which was awarded the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in January 2008; Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias (2006); and an edited volume A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (2012). Professor Dillon was a member of the Aphrodisias Excavations in Turkey from 1992-2004, has worked at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace, and now spends summers doing fieldwork in Athens. Her current research includes a collaborative project to publish the portrait sculpture from the Excavations in the Athenian Agora with a group of current and former students, and a digital mapping project of the history of the archaeological excavations in the Agora, a collaborative endeavor centered in the Wired! Lab that involves undergraduate and graduate students at Duke. Professor Dillon was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology from 2013-2016.
| Office Location: | 114 S Buchanan Blvd, Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, A261, Durham, NC 27708-0766 |
| Office Phone: | (919) 684-6082 |
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| Web Pages: | https://duke.app.box.com/folder/2249763099 http://dukewired.org |
Teaching (Spring 2024):
| Ph.D. | New York University | 1994 |
| M.A. | New York University | 1989 |
| B.A. | Rutgers University New Brunswick | 1987 |
| AAS | Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY |
Current projects: Death and the Art of Sculpture in Athens: Classical to Neoclassical
Roman Portrait Statuary in Athens
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. 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. Prof. Dillon is the current Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology (2013-2016).