Curriculum Vitae
MARGARET COOL ROOT
Education
Bryn Mawr College B.A. l969 Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (Magna cum Laude, Departmental Honors)
Bryn Mawr College M.A. l97l Etruscan Archaeology
Bryn Mawr College Ph.D. l976 Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology and Etruscan Archaeology
Professional Employment
1994-99 Chair, Department of the History of Art
1992- Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology: Department of the History of Art and the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology
1992- Curator of Collections: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan
1992 (Jan-June) Acting Director, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
l978-92 Assistant-Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology: Department of the History of Art and the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology
Assistant-Associate Curator of Collections: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
l977-78 Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of Art and Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago Research Associate: The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Relevant Work-Related Experience
1999 Tour Leader to Iran, with Tom Lentz (Smithsonian Institution)
l975-77 Instructor in Classical and Near Eastern Art, University of Chicago Extension
l975-76 Archivist for Scholarly Papers: The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
l974 Graduate Fellow: Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
l973-74 Dissertation Research: Turkey, Iran, London, Paris and Berlin
l97l-72 Museum/Site Exploration: Europe and North Africa
l969-7l Teaching Assistant: Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
l969 Trench Supervisor: Bryn Mawr College Excavations at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), Tuscany
Honors and Grants
l969-70 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
l974-75 Whiting Dissertation Fellowship
l977 ACLS Grant-in-Aid for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D.
l977 NEH Summer Stipend
l978-79 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research
l98l-82 NEA Special Exhibitions Grant (for "Wondrous Glass")
l983 Horace H. Rackham Faculty Research Fellowship and Grant
1985-86 Howard Foundation Fellowship (declined)
1985-86 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
l986 Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
1987-88 Horace H. Rackham Research Partnership Award
1988 Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan
1989-90 Horace H. Rackham Research Partnership Award
1989-90 NEH Academic Conference Grant, for Achaemenid History Workshop
1990 Research Grant: Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan
1991 Seed Money Grant: Office of International Development, University of Michigan, for International Summer Seminars in Achaemenid Studies
1993 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant, for Persepolis Fortification Tablet Seal Project
1993-95 NEH Research Tools Grant, for Persepolis Fortification Tablet Seal Project
1995 Seed Money Grant: International Institute, University of Michigan, for development of research and teaching partnership with Turkish colleagues at Bilkent University, Ankara.
1994-97 Instructional Technology Grant: College of LS&A, University of Michigan, for development and implementation of an instructional CD on the Persepolis Seal Project.
1995 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bloch Award, College of LS&A, University of Michigan, for development of interdisciplinary undergraduate course: "Art on Trial."
1995 Career Development Award, Office of the Provost, University of Michigan
1997 Bridging Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research and College of LS&A, for Persepolis
Seal Project.
1. Rackham Pedagogy Award, for development of interdisciplinary graduate
seminar: "Visual Valence."
1999 Humanities Award, College of LS&A
1999 Iran Heritage Foundation Grant for Persepolis Seal Project
2001 Rackham Grant for Interdepartmental Collaborative Translation Project with K. Abdi and H.T.
Wright
Publications
Books and Selected Exhibition Catalogues (see also p. 5)
The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art: Essays on the Creation of an Iconography of Empire (Acta Iranica Monograph Series, Vol. l9). Leiden: E.J. Brill, l979.
Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy Masks, Painted Portraits, and Canopic Jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Ann Arbor, l979.
Wondrous Glass: Reflections on the World of Rome. Ann Arbor l982.
The Persian Empire: Continuity and Change [Achaemenid History 8], co-editor and contributor with A. Kuhrt and H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg. Leiden: NINO, 1994.
Persepolis Seal Studies. An Introduction with Provisional Concordances of Seal Numbers and Associated Documents on Persepolis Fortification Tablets 1-2087 [Achaemenid History 9], with M.B. Garrison. Leiden: NINO, 1996 (reissued 1998).
Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets: A Catalog in Three Volumes. Volume I. Images of Heroic Encounter, with M. B. Garrison. Chicago: Oriental Institute Publications 117, 2001.
Books in Progress
Medes and Persians. Projections of /on Elusive Empires (guest editor and contributor). Ars Orientalis 32 (2002).
Persia and the Parthenon: Comparative Essays on the Art of Empire (manuscript under revision).
Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets: A Catalog in Three Volumes. Volumes II and III, with M. B. Garrison. Chicago: Oriental Institute Publications, forthcoming.
The Adams (ex-Herzfeld) Collection of Prehistoric Stamp Seals. Kelsey Museum Studies, for 2004.
Signs and Symbols. The Arts of Early Iran, for 2004.
Persepolis. City of the Persians, for 2005.
Articles and Chapters
"An Etruscan Horse Race from Poggio Civitate." American Journal of Archaeology 77 (l973) l2l-l37.
"The Herzfeld Archive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Metropolitan Museum Journal ll (l976) ll9-l24.
"The Persepolis Perplex: Some Prospects Borne of Retrospect," in D. Schmandt-Besserat, ed., Ancient Persia: The Art of an Empire [Invited Lectures on the Middle East at The University of Texas at Austin, Vol. 4], 5-13. Malibu: Undena Press, l980.
"A Funerary Relief Bust from Palmyra." Bulletin of the Museums of Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan 4 (l98l) l-ll.
"The Parthenon Frieze and the Apadana Reliefs at Persepolis: Reassessing a Programmatic Relationship." American Journal of Archaeology 89 (l985) 103-122.
"Pasargadae" and "Persepolis." Encyclopedia Americana, 1985.
"An Apulian Volute Krater by the Gioia del Colle Painter: Aspects of Context, Attribution and Iconography." Bulletin of the Museums of Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan 7 (1985) 1-25.
"Tappan, Bismarck and the Bitter Connection: Reflections on Men and their Dogs in the Artful Memory." Rackham Reports, University of Michigan (1986-1987) 17-46.
"Evidence from Persepolis for the Dating of Persian and Archaic Greek Coinage." Numismatic Chronicle 148 (1986-1987) 1-12.
"The Persian Archer at Persepolis: Aspects of Chronology, Style, and Symbolism," in R. Descat, ed., L'Or perse et l'histoire grecque , 33-50 [Revue des Etudes Anciennes 91 (1989)].
"The Cameron Squeeze from Behistun: Salvaging a Record of Persian Art and History at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology." Archaeology ("Newsbrief"), Spring 1989.
"Circles of Artistic Programming: Strategies for Studying Creative Process at Persepolis," in A. C. Gunter, ed., Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East, 115-139. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990.
"From the Heart: Powerful Persianisms in the Art of the Western Empire," in H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg, ed., The Persian Empire in the West [Achaemenid History 6], 1-25. Leiden: NINO, 1991.
"Seals in the Ancient Near East: The Authority of Word-Image Synthesis," in M.L. Allen and K. Dix, eds., Writing in the Ancient World. Ann Arbor 1991, 19-26.
"Persian Art," in D.N. Freedman, ed., The Anchor Bible Dictionary I. New York, etc.: Doubleday, 1992, 440-447.
"Contextualizing Ancient Near Eastern Art: A Review Article." TOPOI 3 (1993) 217-245.
"Lifting the Veil: Approaches to the Study of Artistic Transmission beyond the Boundaries of Historical
Periodisation," in A. Kuhrt, H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg, and M.C. Root, eds., The Persian Empire: Continuity and Change [Achaemenid History 8], 9-37. Leiden: NINO, 1994.
"Art and Archaeology of the Achaemenids," in J.M. Sasson, ed., Civilizations of the Ancient Near East,
Vol. IV, 2615-2637. New York: Scribner’s, 1995.
"Achaemenid Art" and "Persepolis," in J. Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art, Vol. 1, 115-119; Vol. 24,
481-484. London: Macmillan, 1996.
"The Persepolis Fortification Tablets: Archival Issues and the Problem of Stamps versus Cylinder Seals,"
in A. Invernizzi and M.-F. Boussac, eds., Archives et sceaux du monde hellénistique, 3-27.
Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 29 (1997).
"Cultural Pluralisms on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets," in J.-F. Salles and M.-F. Boussac, eds., Supplement to TOPOI 7 (1997) 229-252.
"Pyramidal Stamp Seals: The Persepolis Connection," in M. Brosius and A. Kuhrt, eds., Studies in Persian History: Essays in Memory of David M. Lewis [Achaemenid History 11], 257-289. Leiden: NINO, 1998.
"An Achaemenid Seal from the Lower City," with S. Miller-Collett. Studia Troica 7 (1997) 355-362.
"Replicating, Inscribing, Giving: Ernst Herzfeld and Artaxerxes’ Silver Phiale in the Freer Gallery of Art," with A. C. Gunter. Ars Orientalis 28 (1998) 3-40.
"The Cylinder Seal from Pasargadae: Of Wheels and Wings, Date and Fate," in E. Haerinck, ed., Festschrift in Honor of David Stronach, 271-303 [ Acta Iranica 34 (1999)].
"Encyclopedic Encounters." A review article on The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. E.M. Meyers (1997). Ars Orientalis 30 (2000) 132-138.
"Imperial Ideology in Achaemenid Persian Art: Transforming the Mesopotamian Legacy," in Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, 35 (2000) 19-27.
"The Adams (ex-Herzfeld) Collection of Prehistoric Stamp Seals: Highlights and Agendas for Research." Bulletin of the Museums of Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan, 1998-99, (2000) 9-40.
"Animals in the Art of Ancient Iran." Chapter in B. J. Collins, ed., A History of the Animal World in the Ancient Near East, 169-209. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002.
"Women of the Field. Defining the Gendered Experience." The Introductory Chapter for G.M. Cohen and M.S. Joukowsky, eds., Women in Archaeology. The Classical World and the Near East. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, in press.
"Prismatic Prehistory. Herzfeld on Early Iran," in Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900-1950, eds. A.C. Gunter and S.R. Hauser, in press.
"Hero and Worshiper at Seleucia. Re-inventions of Babylonian Tradition on an Achaemenid Cylinder Seal in the Kelsey Museum," in Culture through Objects. Festschrift P.R.S. Moorey, eds. M. Roaf, D. Stein, and T. Potts. Oxford: Griffith Institute, in press.
"Medes and Persians: The State of Things." Introductory chapter for Medes and Persians. Projections of/on Elusive Empires, ed. M.C. Root. Introductory chapter, Ars Orientalis 32 (2002), in press.
"The Lioness of Elam. Clues to Elamite Dynastic Identity at Persepolis," in Memorial Volume for Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg [Achaemenid History 14], ed. W. Henkelman and A. Kuhrt. Leiden: NINO, for 2003.
Articles in Preparation
"Seals from Seleucia. Part I: The Pre-Hellenistic Corpus"
"Seals from Seleucia. Part II: The Hellenistic and Parthian Corpus"
"Royal-Name Seals of the Persian Empire," with Mark Garrison and Deniz Kaptan.
"Re-Creating Art: Aesthetic and Social Dynamics of Seal Play in the Ancient Near East."
"Patterns of Seal Application on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets--Administrative Issues."
Instructional and Research Tools
"Persepolis: 480 B.C." Scholarly consultant for an Encarta 3D Virtual Tour of Persepolis. Microsoft, 2001.
"Seals and Sealings in the Ancient Near East." Interactive Web Site: Kelsey Museum and Department of the History of Art , University of Michigan, in preparation for public access link in 2002.
Public Art and Political Controversy: Essays and Instructional Guide for Secondary School Teachers, with the assistance of Molly Cronnenwett, in preparation.
"Persepolis Seal Project Interactive Internet Database," with support from the CNRS and the Collège de
France and in collaboration with M.B. Garrison and C. Jones, in preparation.
Additional Exhibition Publications for the Kelsey Museum
The Samuel A. Goudsmit Collection of Egyptian Antiquities: A Scientist Views the Past. Ann Arbor l982.
The Art of Seals: Aesthetic and Social Dynamics of the Impressed Image from Antiquity to the Present. Ann Arbor l984.
Crowning Glories: Persian Kingship and the Power of Creative Continuity. Ann Arbor 1990.
Wondrous Glass: Reflections on The World of Rome. Ann Arbor 1980--reissued in 1996 at http://www.umich.edu/-kelseydb/exhibits/WondrousGlass/RomanGlass.html.
Exhibition Catalogues Edited
A Victorian View of Ancient Rome: The John Henry Parker Collection of Historical Photographs in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. By Judith Keller and Kenneth A. Breisch, with a Foreword by Margaret Cool Root. Ann Arbor, l980.
Napoleon's Legacy: The European Exploration of Egypt. By Pamela Reister. Ann Arbor, l984.
Reviews
Persepolis and Ancient Iran, compiled by Ursula Schneider, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 37 (l978) 20l-202.
Acta Iranica Monograph Series Vols. I-VII, edited by Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 38 (l979) 39-42.
Das sasanidische Felsrelief von Sar Mashad (Iranische Denkmäler Vol. V), by Leo Trümpelmann, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 40 (l98l) l53-l54.
Parthian Art, by Malcolm A. R. Colledge, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 40 (1981) 153-154.
Die Stempelsiegel im Vorderasiatischen Museum, by Liane Jakob-Rost, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 40 (l98l) 59-6l.
Christian Seals of the Sasanian Period, by Judith Lerner, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 40 (l98l) 6l-62.
Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East, edited by McGuire Gibson and Robert Biggs in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 4l (l982) 58-60.
Ancient Art in Seals, edited by Edith Porada, in American Journal of Archaeology 86 (l982) 302-303.
The Catalogue of Ivories from Hasanlu, Iran, by Oscar White Muscarella, in Archaeology (Sept/Oct l982) 76-77.
Persian Glass, by Shinji Fukai, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 4l (l982) 306-308.
A Decorated Breastplate from Hasanlu, Iran, by Irene J. Winter, in American Journal of Archaeology 87 (l983) 282.
Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period Vol. I, by Prudence O. Harper, in American Journal of Archaeology 88 (l984) 96-97.
Sculptures and Sculptors at Persepolis, by Michael Roaf, in American Journal of Archaeology 89 (1986) 113-114.
Achaemenid History I-III (1987-1988), edited by H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg and A. Kuhrt, in the Times Literary Supplement (Oct. 13-19, 1989) 1126.
The Hellenistic Aesthetic, by Helen Fowler, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 53 (1994) 145.
Selected Lectures of Rudolf Wittkower..., edited by D. M. Reynolds, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 54/2 (1995) 144-146.
Images as Media. Sources for the Cultural History of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean (1st
Millennium B.C.E.), ed. C. Uehlinger. Fribourg: University Press 2000, in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, in press.
The Legacy of Mesopotamia, edited by Stephanie Dalley, in Ars Orientalis, forthcoming.
The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia. New Light on the Parthian and Sasanian Empires, edited by Vesta S. Curtis, Robert Hillenbrand and J.M. Rogers, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.
Scholarly Papers
"The Persepolis Tribute Procession: Pious Images of Empire." Archaeological Institute of America (New York City l976).
"Hand-Holding at Persepolis: Images Déja Vues." College Art Association of America (Los Angeles l977).
"The Behistun Relief: Symbolic Synthesis in Achaemenid History and Art." Archaeological Institute of America, Symposium on Historical Art (Atlanta l977).
"The Persepolis Fortification Tablet Seal Impressions." American Oriental Society (Toronto l978).
"Seals of Officials and 'Official' Seals of the Achaemenid Empire." Oriental Institute Symposium on the Achaemenid Empire (Chicago l978).
"The Achaemenid Royal Hero: Thoughts on a Paradox of Power and Pedigree." Archaeological Institute of America (New Orleans l980).
"The Parthenon Frieze and the Apadana Reliefs at Persepolis: Coincidence, Antithesis, or Emulation?" Archaeological Institute of America (San Francisco l98l).
"The Parthenon Frieze and the Apadana Reliefs at Persepolis: Reassessing a Programmatic Relationship." College Art Association of America (Philadelphia l983).
"Problems in the Evaluation of Athenian Cultural Awareness of Achaemenid Persia." Fifth Achaemenid History Workshop (London 1985).
"Art and the State in the Ancient Near East." Plenary Session on Art and Politics. Archaeological Institute of America (Washington 1985).
"Circles of Patronage in Persian Seals." Symposium: Investigating Artistic Environments in the
Ancient Near East. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Washington 1988).
"From the Heart: Achaemenid Persian Cultural Presence in the Western Empire." Achaemenid History Workshop (Groningen 1988).
"The Persian Archer at Persepolis: Aspects of Chronology, Style, and Symbolism revealed by the Fortification Tablet Seal Impressions." Symposium: L'Or perse et l'histoire grecque (Bordeaux 1989).
"Lifting the Veil: Approaches to the Study of Artistic Transmission beyond the Boundaries of Historical Periodization." Tenth Achaemenid History Workshop (Ann Arbor 1990).
"The Persepolis Fortification Tablet Seal Impressions: Recent Findings." Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York 1991).
"The Persepolis Fortification Tablet Seal Impressions: Stamps versus Cylinder Seals."
International Conference on Archives, Sealings and Seals in the Hellenistic World, (Torino 1993).
"The Achaemenid Persian Throne: Reassessing the Nuances of Art and Actuality at Persepolis." Society for Iranian Studies (Washington 1993).
"What is Graeco-Persian Art? Perspectives on the Construct and a Case Study from Sardis" (with Elspeth McIntosh). International Conference: Culture and Ethnicity in the Hellenistic East (Ann Arbor 1994).
"Framing a Discourse on Method and History in Ancient Near Eastern Art: Case Studies from the Persepolis Fortification Tablet Seal Impressions." The Ancient History Seminar 1995: Ancient History and its Images (Institute of Classical Studies, University College, London, May 1995).
The Persepolis Fortification Archive: Archaeological Perspectives." The Graduate Seminars in Classical Studies 1995 (Department of History, University College London, May 1995).
"Cultural Landscapes of Persepolis: Overarching Questions on the Significance of Persepolis and its Art as an Historical Source on the Persian Empire." The Graduate Seminars in Classical Studies 1995 (Department of History, University College London, May 1995).
"Modes of Seal Application on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets: Protocol and Predilection in Re-Creative Image-Making," (American Oriental Society, Philadelphia, March 1996).
"The Persepolis Fortification Tablets: An Overview of the Seal Project." Mediterranean Archaeology Seminar, University of Toronto (Toronto, October 1996).
"Intercultural Encounters: Sealing as Discourse on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets." Conference: Recherches recentes sur l’empire achéménide (Maison de l’Orient, Lyon, April 1997).
"Persepolis. Archaeological and Historiographical Constructions of its Identity as a City."
Symposium: Ancient Near Eastern Cities. Archaeological Institute of America (Chicago, December 1997).
"Irreverent Inversions: Humor Public and Private in the Glyptic Art of the Persian Court." Colloquium on Visual Humor in World Art, Warburg Institute (London, February 1999).
"Images of Empire in Ancient Persia: Reflections on the Mesopotamian Legacy." The Ronald Morton Smith Memorial Lecture, Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, University of Toronto (Toronto, February 1999).
"Persepolis: City or Sanctuary?" The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, April 1999).
"Seminar: The Persepolis Fortification Tablets," Open Graduate Seminar, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, April 1999).
"Issues in the WWW Presentation of Data in the Visual Arts." Invited paper presented to the international symposium Achaemenid History and Data Bases on the Internet. Collège de France, December 2000.
"Good v. Evil: Athens and Persepolis in the Western Political/Historical Imagination." Session on The city as Metaphor, the City as Reality (College Art Association, Chicago, February 2001).
"Prismatic Prehistory: Herzfeld on the Stamp Seals of Early Iran." Symposium: Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900-1950. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC, May 2001).
Organization of Panels at Professional Meetings, International Conferences
"Defining Modes of Influence: Artistic Relations between Greece and the Near East," College Art Association of America (Los Angeles l985), chair.
"Ancient Art -- Selected Problems of Analysis," Midwest Art History Society (Ann Arbor 1987), co-chair with Elaine Gazda.
Achaemenid History Workshop 1990 (International Conference in Ann Arbor), co-organizer with S. Humphries, H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg, and A. Kuhrt.
Discussant on numerous thematic panels: College Art Association of America and Archaeological Institute of America.
Invited Public Lectures
"Imperial Images in Achaemenid Persian Sculpture." The University of Chicago (Chicago l978).
"The Sculpture of Persepolis: Dreams in Stone for the Persian King." The University of Texas at Austin Invited Lecture Series (Austin l978).
"The Sculpture of Persepolis." The Walters Art Gallery Inaugural Exhibition Address (Baltimore l978).
"The Sculpture of Persepolis: Dreams in Stone for the Persian King." Archaeological Institute of America Traveling Lecturer Series (Boston, Worcester, and Providence Societies l980; Albany, Finger Lakes, and Rochester Societies l98l).
"Stalking the Sacred Beetle: The Mystery and Magic of Egyptian Scarabs." Samuel A. Goudsmit Memorial Lecture, The University of Nevada at Reno (Reno l983).
"Man as Metaphor: Concepts of the Portrait in Ancient Egypt." Samuel A. Goudsmit Memorial Lecture-- Colloquium in Art History, The University of Nevada at Reno (Reno l983).
"Persepolis l984: Recent Research on the Art of the Persian Empire." Inaugural Lecture, The Oriental Institute (Chicago l984).
"The Seal Impressions from Persepolis." The University of California (Berkeley 1987).
"Persia and the Parthenon." SUNY (Buffalo 1986) and Stanford University (Stanford 1987).
"Persepolis: Recent Research on the Iconography of Empire." San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio 1990).
"Bay View and Ancient Egypt." Bay View Association (Bay View, Michigan 1991).
"Art of the Persian Empire: Reassessing the Barbarian." Archaeological Institute of America (Staten Island, Princeton, Northern New Jersey 1991)
"The Sculpture of Persepolis." Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Art (Detroit 1991)
"Art and Ideology of the Achaemenids." Symposium on Art and Power in the Ancient Near East. The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (1991).
"Darius The Great. Visions of World Empire from Susa and Beyond." The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lecture to commemorate The Royal City of Susa (New York 1993)
"Fertility and the Landscape of Erotic Desire in Ancient Near Eastern Art," for NEH Humanities Institute, The Image and Reality of Women in Ancient Near Eastern Societies (Brown University, June 1995).
"Queen, Priestess, Prisoner...Visual Valences of the Historical Woman in Ancient Near Eastern Art," for NEH Humanities Institute, The Image and Reality of Women in Ancient Near Eastern Societies (Brown University, June 1995).
"Landscapes of Dynastic Desire in Ancient Near Eastern Art." Symposium: Narrative Art in the Ancient World.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (San Francisco, May 1996).
"Persia and the Parthenon: Current Agendas." The J. Walter Graham Lecture, University of Toronto (Toronto, October 1996).
"Ancient Iran--Art and Traditions." Iranian-American Medical Association National Meetings (Chicago, May 1996); Regional Meeting (Pittsburgh, November 1996).
"Queens and the Landscape of Dynastic Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia and Iran." Lecture series for the Detroit Institute of Arts in conjunction with Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur (March, 2001).
Selected Public Lectures at University of Michigan
"Ancient Near Eastern Seals: Where Art and Social History Converge." Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies (1979).
"Beyond Likeness: Mummy Masks and Metaphors in Ancient Egypt." Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1979).
"Whispers in the Ear of the King: A Medizer's Miscellany on Greek Artists at the Persian Court." Tappan Association, Department of the History of Art (1980).
"Archaeology in Absentia: Musings on Persian Kings, Persepolis, and Other Ancient Things." Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies (1980).
"Achaemenid Seals and Coins: Problems of Royal Iconography" (in collaboration with Paolo Visona). Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies (198l).
"Stalking the Sacred Beetle: Heart to Heart with Egyptian Seals and Scarabs." Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1982).
"New Acquisitions at the Kelsey Museum: An Apulian Volute Krater." Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1982).
"The Behistun Relief of Darius the Great or: Why George Cameron Climbed to the Top of the Mountain and What He Did There." Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1986).
"Art and Cult in Ancient Syria: The View from Mari." Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1987).
"Persia and the Parthenon." University Seminars (1987 and 1988); Alumni groups and Camp Michigania (1990).
"Pictures of Persepolis: Persia's Imperial Center." Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1990).
"Empire Builders--Persia and the Parthenon." Humanities Institute (1990).
"Imperial Archives of Persepolis." Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1993).
"Henry Tappan, his Observatory, and his Dog: Prussian Pretenses in Provincial Ann Arbor." University of Michigan Detroit Observatory Lecture Series (2000).
Exhibitions at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy Masks, Painted Portraits, and Canopic Jars (l979).
The Coins of Karanis (l980).
A Victorian View of Ancient Rome: The John Henry Parker Collection of Historical Photographs (as advisor to J. Keller, l980).
Decorative Arts of Coptic and Islamic Egypt (as advisor to E. Higashi, l98l).
The Samuel A. Goudsmit Collection of Egyptian Antiquities: A Scientist Views the Past (l982).
The Mint and the Message (as advisor to P. Visonà, l982.)
Wondrous Glass: Reflections on the World of Rome (with the assistance of L. McCoy, l982).
The Art of Seals: Aesthetic and Social Dynamics of the Impressed Image from Antiquity to the Present (with the assistance of M. Garrison, M. Morden, J. Higginbotham, and V. Jennings, l984).
Napoleon's Legacy: The European Exploration of Egypt (as advisor to Pamela Reister, l984).
Piecing Together the Past (1984).
The Cameron Squeezes from Behistun: Salvaging a Record of Iranian Art and History (1986).
Caravan! Ancient and Medieval Destinies Across the Sand (1987).
A Portrait Mosaic from Gerasa in Roman Syria (1987).
Egyptian Mummies: From Ancient Cult to Modern Science (1988).
Crowning Glories: Persian Kingship and the Power of Creative Continuity (1990).
The Sigmund Freud Antiquities: Fragments from a Buried Past (1991).
Signs and Symbols. The Arts of Early Iran (in preparation for 2004)
Departmental Service
Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology [IPCAA]
Member, Governing Committee and Faculty (l979-present)
Graduate Advisor (l979-82 and 1986-87)
Chair, Subcommittee on Program Revisions (l980-8l)
Language Examiner (1979-present)
Chair, Subcommittee on Program Evaluation (1987-88)
Chair, Subcommittee on Program Review (1990-91)
Member, Search Committee, position in Theory of Field Archaeology (1991-92)
Member, Search Committee, position in Egyptology (1993-94)
Department of the History of Art
Member, Academic Committee (l980-83)
Member, Search Committee, position in Islamic Art (l982-83)
Member, Search Committee, position in Medieval Art (l983-84)
Undergraduate Advisor (l982-85)
Honors Advisor (l983-85)
Member, Search Committee, position in Japanese Art (1986-87)
Co-Chair, Search Committee, position in Islamic Art (1987-88)
Chair, Graduate Committee (1987-89)
Director of Graduate Studies (1987-89)
Chair, Search Committee, position in American Art (1990-91)
Member, Search Committee, position in Japanese Art (1991-92)
Member, Committee on Feminist Mainstreaming (1991-92)
Member, Curriculum and Pedagogy Committee (1991-92)
Chair, Library Committee (1993-94)
Chair, Search Committee, position in Islamic Art (2000-01)
Member, Search Committee, position in Classical Art and Archaeology (2001-02)
Member, Executive Committee (Winter 2002)
Department Chair (1994-1999)
Member, ex-officio, Graduate and Undergraduate Committees (1994-99)
Chair, Executive Committee (1994-99)
Chair, Search Committee, position in Contemporary Art (1995-96)
Member, Freer Committee (1995-present)
Member, Search Committee, position in Japanese Art (1998-99)
Chair, Search Committee for Chief Curator, VRC (1998-99)
Kelsey Museum Service
Member and/or Chair, various internal committees (1979-94; 2001-present)
Member, Executive Committee (l987-present)
Acting Director (Spring-Summer 1988; Fall 1988; January-June 1992)
Service to the University
President, Ann Arbor Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (l979-84)
Member, Rackham Academic Appeals Panel (l979-82)
Member, Faculty Selection Committee for Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowships (l98l)
Member, Faculty Selection Committee for Rackham Non-Traditional Fellowships (l98l)
Faculty Juror, Rackham Academic Appeals Board Hearing (Spring and Summer l98l)
Participating Faculty, Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies (l979-present)
Member, LS&A Honors Council (l983-85)
Member, Faculty Selection Committee for Fellowships on Gender Research (l984)
Member, LS&A Committee to Review College Counseling Efforts (l984-85)
Chair, Rackham Faculty Fellowships and Grants, Division IV (1986-87)
Member, Rackham Executive Board (1987-90)
Member, English Composition Board Policy Committee (1987-89)
Member, Selection Committee for Institute for the Humanities Fellowships (1990-91)
Member, Selection Committee for Research Partnerships Fellowships (1990-91)
Member, Committee to Review the Office of the Vice-President for Research (1991-92)
Member, Governing Board of the Institute for the Humanities (1991-94)
Member, Faculty Selection Committee, Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowships (1991-92)
Member, Selection Committee for Roberts Scholarship (1993-94)
Member, Humanities Advisory Board for the Executive Committee, College of Literature, Science and the Arts (1993-94)
Member, Executive Committee of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (1994-99)
Member, Executive Committee of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (1995-98)
Member, Planning Committee for the Year of the Humanities and the Arts (1996-97)
Member, Director’s Search Committee, University of Michigan Museum of Art (Winter-Summer 1998)
Faculty Associate, Institute for the Humanities (1995-present)
Member, Taskforce of the Interim Dean of the College (1998-99)
Member, President's Committee on Honorary Degrees (1999-02)
Member, Committee on Humanities Journals at Michigan (1999-present)
Membership in Professional Associations
American Oriental Society
American Oriental Society Midwest Branch
Archaeological Institute of America
CIC Art History Chairs Group: College Art Association (Chair 1998-99)
College Art Association of America
Iranian Studies Association
Midwest Society of the College Art Association
University of Michigan Research Club
University of Michigan Scientific Club
Reviewer of Manuscripts/Grant Applications
American Council of Learned Societies
American Journal of Archaeology
Archaeological News
Ars Orientalis
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Cambridge University Press
Getty Fellowship Program
Iran Heritage Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
MacArthur Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities (Applications and Panels)
The Smithsonian Institution
University of Michigan Press
University of Wisconsin Press
Departmental Reviewer
History of Art and Program in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Reviewer
Johns Hopkins University
The Ohio State University
Trinity University
University of Toronto
University of Pennsylvania
Editorial Boards/Steering Committees
Member: Editorial Board of Ars Orientalis
Member: Editorial Board of Kelsey Museum Studies
Member: Editorial Board of Bulletin of the Museums of Art and Archaeology
Member: Editorial Board of Achaemenid History, Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO)
Co-pilot, Steering Committee for the Visual Arts Cell: Achemenet.com
Member: CNRS Groupe de Recherche, Réseau international d'études et de recherches achéménides, 2002-2005
Member: Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), 2002-2005
Courses Taught at University of Michigan
History of Art l0l: Art & Agency in a Pre-Modern World ( Ancient-Medieval Survey of the Near East and Europe) -- redesigned to satisfy the Race and Ethnicity Requirement of the College
History of Art 223: Introduction to the Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
History of Art/American Culture 332: Art on Trial. American Public Monuments and Political Controversy
History of Art 393: Honors Pro-Seminar in the History of Art (varying subtitles)
"Methodologies in Greek Vase Painting"
"Public Art and Political Controversy"
"The Artist’s Hand: Studies in Historiography and New Potentials of a Method"
History of Art 405: Artists and Patrons (varying subtitles)
"The Art of Seals in the Ancient Near East"
"The Persian Empire"
History of Art 42l: Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
History of Art 433: Greek Sculpture. The Parthenon **
History of Art 437: Egyptian Art and Archaeology *
History of Art 439: Greek Vase Painting **
History of Art 48l: Art of Ancient Iran: Neolithic-Sasanian Periods*
History of Art 613: Museum Studies. Prehistoric Stamp Seals of Mesopotamia and Iran
History of Art 617: Visual Valence. Case Studies in the Critical Reading of Material Culture--varying topics
History of Art 822: Problems in the Art and Archaeology of the Persian Empire (various topics)
Annual Participating Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies 445 (1980-94)
Annual Pro-Seminar Participating Lecturer, in Archaeological and Art Historical Methods, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology
Participating Lecturer, Annual Graduate Pro- Seminar in the History of Art (on occasion through 1990)
* Both as Upper Level Writing Course for departmental service and in traditional format
** As Upper Level Writing Course for departmental service
Independent Studies Supervised
The Site of Dura Europus
Readings in Egyptian Art
Roman Wall Painting
Roman Glass (both individually and as a group seminar)
Problems in Museum Research (repeatedly, using different material)
Problems in Evaluating Influence Phenomena in Ancient Art
Readings on Narrative Art
Feminist Critique in Ancient Art (repeatedly, using different material)
Historiography of the Parthenon
Readings in the Archaeology of the Persian Empire (repeatedly)
Readings in Issues of Public Art
Readings in Nabataean Studies
Honors Theses Supervised (lst Reader)
Helen Smith (Classical Archaeology): Ancient Near Eastern
Victoria Weston (History of Art): Greek
Nathan Estep (History of Art): Egyptian
Molly Cronnenwett (History of Art): American Public Art
Kate Hickner (History of Art): American Public Art
Numerous others as 2nd Reader
Masters Papers Supervised
Victoria Jennings (History of Art: Near Eastern) lst Reader
Gina Alexander (History of Art: Roman) 2nd Reader
David Caccioli (History of Art: Etruscan) 2nd Reader
Helen Wechsler (History of Art: Indian) 2nd Reader
Steven Markel (History of Art: Indian) 2nd Reader
Susan TePaske-King (History of Art: Greek) 1st Reader
David Katz (History of Art: Near Eastern) 1st Reader
Mariana Giovino (History of Art: Greek) 1st Reader
Dissertation Committees (Regular or Cognate Member)
Timothy McNiven (Archaeology: Greek)
Valerie Hutchinson (Archaeology: Roman)
Rebecca Miller (Archaeology: Greek)
Diane Conlin (Archaeology: Roman)
Gail Hoffman (Archaeology: Greek and Near Eastern)
George Armantrout (Archaeology: Greek)
Ann Harrison (Archaeology: Greek)
Cathy Keesling (Archaeology: Greek)
Victoria Weston (History of Art: Japanese)
Ellen Perry (Archaeology: Roman)
Molly Lindner (History of Art: Roman)
Rebecca Price-Wilkin (History of Art: Medieval)
Kirsten Buick (History of Art: American)
Irene Leung (History of Art: Chinese)
Kamyar Abdi (Anthropology: Prehistoric Iran)
Jane Rempel (IPCAA)--in progress
Jen Gates (IPCAA) -- in progress
Karen Johnson (IPCAA) -- in progress
Dissertation Committees (Chair)
Elizabeth Higashi (History of Art: Late Roman Egyptian), 1986
Mark Garrison (Archaeology: Near Eastern), 1988
Elspeth McIntosh Dusinberre (Archaeology: Near Eastern), 1997
Mariana Giovino (History of Art: Near Eastern)-- nearing completion
Björn Anderson (IPCAA) -- in progress
Dissertation Committees (External Examiner)
Bruce Power, Center for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, 1999.
Cindy Nimchuk (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilization, University of Toronto, 2001)
Kim Codella (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley)-- in progress
Revised: 8/02
