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Professor of Classical Archaeology / Curator of the Ure Museum, University of Reading

I research and teach ancient Mediterranean history and archaeology with a focus on Greek art & iconography, myth & religion, gender studies, as well as the history & use of collections, historiography of classical archaeology, and digital classics & museology.

Experience

  • 2013–present
    Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Reading
  • 2024–2024
    Gertrude Smith Professor, American School of Classical Studies
  • 2022–2022
    R.T. Milns Visiting Professor, University of Queensland
  • 2017–2017
    Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
  • 2006–2013
    Senior Lecturer, University of Reading
  • 2000–2006
    Lecturer, University of Reading
  • 1997–2000
    Art & Archaeology Editor, Perseus Project, Tufts University

Education

  • 1997 
    Yale University, PhD Classical Art & Archaeology
  • 1988 
    Dartmouth College, BA Classical Archaeology

Publications

  • 2021
    Under the Greek Sky: Taste and the Reception of Classical Art After Winckelmann, A special section of Journal of Art Historiography 25
  • 2018
    Winckelmann and curiosity in the 18th-century gentleman's library , Christ Church
  • 2012
    The gods of Small Things, Pallas. Revue d'études antiques 86
  • 2011
    Polis and Personification, Brill
  • 2010
    Brill's Companion to Aphrodite , Brill
  • 2007
    Reading Museum , Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum 23