B.A., College of William and Mary.
M.A., Williams College.
Ph.D., Yale University

Specialization

Ancient Greece

Books

Vase-Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greek Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Work in Progress

"Reflections of Monumental Painting in Greek Vase Painting of the 5th and 4th Centuries BC," for J. J. Pollitt, ed., Painting in the Classical World (under contract for Cambridge University Press for 2007).

"Red-Defining Penthesileia in Early Classical Athens."  (under review)

“Structural Analysis and Semiotics as Approaches to Defining the Comic Image.”  Paper for Concepts of Pictorial Representation in the Hermeneutics of Greek Vase Paintings, Colloquium organized by Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, April 9-11, 2008.

Asking Questions and Looking for Answers about Greek Art (prospectus under review)

Selected Articles

"The Structural Differentiation of Pursuit Scenes," in 'Reading' Ancient Greek and Roman Images: Modes of Representation and Contemporary Methodologies, G. Bodard and D. Yatromanolakis, eds. (forthcoming).

“The Development of Geometric Pictorial Narrative as Discourse,” in E. Rystedt and B. Wells, eds., Pictorial Pursuits.  Figurative Painting on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery.  Papers from Two seminars at the Swedish Institute at Athens in 1999 and 2001, Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet I Athen, 4°, LIII (Stockholm: Paul Åströms Förlag, 2006) 247-253.

"The Painting Program in the Stoa Poikile," in Periklean Athens and Its Legacy.  Problems and Perspectives, J. D. Barringer and J. M. Hurwit, eds. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005) 73-88.

"Greece: Classical Greece" and "Greek Art and Architecture, Classical, Classical Greek Sculpture," signed articles in Oxford Companion to Archaeology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) 258-259 and 264-265.

"Reading Pictorial Narrative: The Law Court Scene of the Shield of Achilles," in The Ages of Homer, J. Carter and S. Morris, eds. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995) 315-334.

"Reflections of the Tyche of Antioch in Literary Sources and on Coins," in An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art, S. B. Matheson, ed., Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (New Haven, 1994) 50-63.

"Polygnotos's Nekyia: A Reconstruction and Analysis," American Journal of Archaeology 94 (1990) 213-235.

"Polygnotos's Iliupersis: A New Reconstruction," American Journal of Archaeology 93 (1989) 203-215.

Recent Papers

“Encoding Gendered Patterns of Behavior in Archaic Athens,” Annual Conference of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, April 26, 2007.

“Redefining Penthesileia in Early Classical Vase Painting,” Second Annual Paul Rehak Memorial Symposium on Ancient Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 13, 2007.

"Narrative Spectators inside and outside of the Picture in Archaic Athenian Vase-Painting," plenary paper presented to the Contemporary Narratology Seminar, International Narrative Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, April 9, 2006.

"Men Pursuing Women and Women Pursuing Men in Greek Vase Painting: Is There a Difference?" paper presented at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 3, 2006.

"Looking at Narrative from the Margins: Spectators as Models of Gendered Behavior," paper presented at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, November 28, 2005.

"Spectators as Model Viewers and Citizens," paper presented to the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Montréal, Quebec, April 2, 2004.

"Spectators in Scenes of Greek/Amazon Duels: Gendered Models of Behavior," paper presented to the Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting, San Francisco, California, January 4, 2004.

"Spectator Typology in Archaic Greek Art," to be presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Archaeology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 4, 2002.

"Geometric Pictorial Narrative: Innovation, Revival, Response?" presented to the Second Seminar on Pictorial Pottery: Mycenaean-Geometric, at the Swedish Institute at Athens, December 2, 2001.

Recent Grants

Research in Progress Grant, Minnesota Humanities Commission, 2001-2002.
University Scholar, University of St. Thomas, 2001-2003.