IPCAA Core Faculty

Professor, Department of the History of Art and Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology; Curator of Hellenistic and Roman Antiquities, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.

Scholarly Interests

Hellenistic and Roman Art and Archaeology, Roman sculpture and painting, the art of late antiquity and of Graeco-Roman Egypt, Roman architecture and building technology, Etruscan art, and the impact of the classical tradition in the west.

Degree

Ph.D., Harvard University

Selected Publications

• Roman Art in the Private Sphere (ed., Ann Arbor 1991)
• The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse (ed., Ann Arbor 2000)
• The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity (ed., Ann Arbor 2002)

E-mail: gazda@umich.edu
Telephone: 647-0438

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Sharon Herbert

Professor of Classical Archaeology and Greek, Department of Classical Studies; Director, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Scholarly Interests

Greek archaeology, vase painting, Hellenistic Near East

Degree

Ph.D., Stanford University

Selected Publications

• Corinth VII, 4: The Red-figured Pottery (Cambridge, Mass., 1973)
• Tel Anafa I.i-ii, Final Report on Ten Years of Excavation at a Hellenistic and Roman Settlement in Northern Israel (Ann Arbor, 1994)
• Tel Anafa II.i, The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery (ed., Portsmouth, RI, 1997)
• Excavations at Coptos (Qift) in Upper Egypt, 1987-1992 (co-author, Portsmouth, RI, 2003)
• Articles on excavations in Israel, Greece, and Egypt

E-mail: sherbert@umich.edu
Telephone: 936-3886

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Lisa Nevett

Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classical Studies; Associate Professor of History of Art (Department of History of Art); Research Affiliate, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Scholarly Interests

Archaeology and iconography of domestic space in the ancient
Greek and Roman world

Degree

Ph.D., University of Cambridge

Selected Publications

• Ancient Greek Houses and Households (co-ed., Philadelphia, 2005)
• House and Society in the Ancient Greek World (Cambridge, 1999)
• "A Real Estate 'Market' in Classical Greece?: The Example of Town Housing." Annual of the British School at Athens 95 (2000) 329-43
• “Continuity and change in Greek households under Roman rule: the role of women in the domestic context.” In E. Ostenfeld (ed.) Greek Romans or Roman Greeks? [Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity 3] (Aarhus 2002).
• "Perceptions of Domestic Space in Roman Italy." In B. Rawson and P. Weaver (eds.) Status, Sentiment and Space (Oxford 1997), 281-98.
• "Gender Relations in the Classical Greek Household: The Archaeological Evidence." In M. Parker Pearson and C. Richards (eds.) Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space (London 1994), 98-112.

Curriculum Vitae

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E-mail: lcnevett@umich.edu
Telephone: 936-3886 or 764-5717

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Christopher Ratté

Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classical Studies; Reseach Affiliate, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Scholarly Interests

Classical Archaeology, especially Greek architecture and urbanism, archaeology of Turkey

Degree

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley

Selected Publications

• Lydian Architecture (Harvard Cornell/Sardis Expedition, 2007)
• Aphrodisias Papers 4, JRA Supplementary Series (co-editor, 2007)
• “The Urban Development of Aphrodisias in the Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Periods,” Patris und Imperium (Leuven 2002) 5-32.
• “New Research on the Urban Development of Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity," Urbanism of Western Asia Minor: The Current Status of Archaeological Research (JRA Supplementary Series 45, 2001) 116-47

E-mail: ratte@umich.edu
Telephone: 936-3888

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Margaret Cool Root

Professor, History of Art and Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology; Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Scholarly Interests

The art, archaeology, and historiography of the Achaemenid Persian empire; problems in the studies in iconographically- and stylistically-based visual constructions of ideology and identity; public art and imperial ideologies across cultural and temporal boundaries; ancient seals — social uses, iconographic, semiotic, and stylistic dynamics

Degree

Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College

Selected Publications

• The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art: Essays on the Creation of an Iconography of Empire. Acta Iranica 19. (Leiden 1979)
• Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy Masks, Painted Portraits, and Canopic Jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (Ann Arbor 1979)
• The Persian Empire: Continuity and Change. Achaemenid History 8 (co-ed., Leiden 1994)
• Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets I: Images of Heroic Encounter [Oriental Institute Publications 117] (co-author, Chicago 2001)
• "The Parthenon Frieze and the Apadana Reliefs at Persepolis: Reassessing a Programmatic Relationship." AJA 89 (1985) 103-122.
• "From the Heart: Powerful Persianisms in the Art of the Western Empire," Achaemenid History 6 (1991) 1-25.
• "Lifting the Veil: Approaches to the Study of Artistic Transmission Beyond the Boundaries of Historical Periodisation." Achaemenid History 8 (1994) 9-37.
• "Cultural Pluralisms on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets." TOPOI 7 Supplement (1997) 229-252.

E-mail: mcroot@umich.edu
Telephone: 647-4119

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Nicola Terrenato

Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classical Studies; Research Affiliate, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Scholarly Interests

Roman republican archaeology, Roman Imperialism, early Rome, field survey methods

Degree

Ph.D. Pisa

Selected Publications

• Introduzione all'archeologia dei paesaggi (co-author, 1994, Roma, Nuova Italia Scientifica), 364 pp.
• Volterra. Il teatro e le terme (co-author, 2000, Florence, Insegna del Giglio), 220 pp.
• Italy and the West (co-author, 2001, Comparative issues in Romanization, Oxford, Oxbow)
• Articulating local cultures: Power and identity under the expanding Roman Republic(co-editors, 2007, Portsmouth, JRA)
• "Tam firmum municipium: the Romanization of Volaterrae and its cultural implications" (1998, Journal of Roman Studies) 88, 94-114.
• "The Auditorium site and the origins of the Roman villa" (2001, Journal of Roman Archaeology) 14, 5-32.
• "Ancestor Cults: the perception of ancient Rome in Italian culture" (2002, Images of Rome, Portsmouth, Journal of Roman Archaeology) pp. 71-89.
• "Sample size matters! The paradox of global trends and local surveys” ( 2004, Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World,Oxford, Oxbow) 36-48.
• "The deceptive archetype. Roman colonialism and post-colonial thought” ( 2005, Ancient Colonizations. Analogy, Similarity and Difference, London, Duckworth) 59-72.

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