Chair of the Department
Inge Lyse Hansen
2005
Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Coordinator of Classical Studies
M.A., Edinburgh University, 1993
Ph.D., Edinburgh University, 2001
Email: [email protected]
Professors
Silvia Armando
2019
Lecturer in Art History
Laurea, Università della Tuscia, 2006
Ph.D., Università della Tuscia, 2012
Email:
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Crispin Corrado
2012
Lecturer in Art History
B.A., The University of Chicago, 1989
M.A., The University of Chicago, 1998
Ph.D., Brown University, 2007
Email:
[email protected]
Sophy Downes
2018
Lecturer in Art History
B.A., Oxford University, 2002
M.Phil., Cambridge University, 2004
Ph.D., University College London, 2011
Email:
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Laura Foster
2000
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
B.A., UNC - Chapel Hill, 1992
M.A., Binghamton University 1994
Ph.D., Duke University 2000
Email:
[email protected]
Elisabeth Fuhrmann-Schembri
2003
Lecturer in Classics and Art History
M.A., University of Vienna, 1996
Email:
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Karen Georgi
2011
Adjunct Associate Professor of Art History
B.A., St. Lawrence University, 1988
MA, Tufts University, 1993
Ph.D., Boston University, 2000
Email:
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Ilaria Gianni
2009
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
Laurea Triennale, University of Rome "La Sapienza," 2002
Laurea Specialistica, University of Rome "La Sapienza," 2005
M.F.A., Goldsmiths College, U.K., 2008
Email:
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Tom Henry
2021
Lecturer in Art History
B.A., Oxford University, 1986
M.A., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1989
Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1996
Email:
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Jens Koehler
2003
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
M.A., University of Munich, 1988
Ph.D., University of Munich, 1991
Email:
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Cornelia Lauf
2017
Visiting Professor of Art History
B.A., Oberlin College, Ohio, 1983
M.A., Columbia University, 1985
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1992
Email:
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Sarah Linford
2018
Associate Professor of Art History
B.A., University of California Berkeley, 1993
D.E.A. (post-graduate research), Université Paris 7-Trinity College, 1994
M.A., Princeton University, 1996
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2006
Doctorate (research), Université Blaise Pascal, 2007
Email:
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Nicole C. Paxton
2023
Assistant Professor of Art History
B.A., Wellesley College, 2006
M.A., University of Notre Dame, 2010
Ph.D, Yale University, 2020
Email:
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Sharon Salvadori
2005
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
B.A., Bard College, 1987
M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University,
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2002
Email:
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Carolyn Smyth
1997
Professor of Art History
B.A., Vassar College, 1976
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1980
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1988
Email:
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Ambra Spinelli
2023
Lecturer in Art History
Laurea Triennale, University of Bologna, 2005
Laurea Specialistica, University of Bologna, 2008
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2019
Email:
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Paul Tegmeyer
1991
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
B.A., New Mexico State University, 1983
Email:
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Anna Tuck-Scala
2008
Adjunct Associate Professor of Art History
B.A., Cornell University, 1987
M.A., The Pennsylvania State University, 1993
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2003
Email:
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Lila Elizabeth Yawn
2005
Associate Professor of Art History, Director of MA in Art History
B.F.A., University of Florida, 1984
M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1990
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2004
Email:
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Inge Lyse Hansen
2005
Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Coordinator of Classical Studies
M.A., Edinburgh University, 1993
Ph.D., Edinburgh University, 2001
Email:
[email protected]
Inge Lyse Hansen is a Classical Archaeologist and Ancient Historian whose research and teaching focuses on the visual and material culture of Greece and Rome.
Complementary to traditional text-based historical investigations, art and archaeology provide distinct sources of information on the social history and value systems of the ancient world. Hence, material culture may be seen as a set of visual narratives rooted as much in the cultural ideals of its creators as in the lives of the viewers for whom it was intended.
Professor Hansen's teaching investigates how images, monuments and spaces express particular social and cultural concerns and how they acquire meaning for patrons and viewers in a multicultural and socially stratified world.
Her research interests focus on three major themes. First, Roman portraiture and sculpture as a source of self-imaging and expression of cultural values; second, the articulation of Roman identities and patronage in the provinces in the late Republic and Empire, with special focus on Epirus; third, Roman funerary art and the use of myth and gender to articulate exemplary virtues.
She co-directs the international Alberese Archaeological Field School in Tuscany, investigating Roman Etruria between the 3rd century BC and the 6th century AD. The field school is organized in association with JCU.
She is Vice President of the Rome Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. The society is an international forum for knowledge exchange and networking for professionals and students, with a vibrant public events program.
Professor Hansen is further Research Fellow at the British School, and Publication Manager for the Butrint Foundation and the large-scale excavations carried out by it at the ancient city of Buthrotum, in modern-day Albania.
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