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Sheila Dillon received a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her fields of research and teaching are Greek and Roman art. Her most recent book is entitled The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (Cambridge University Press 2010), a project for which she received an NEH faculty fellowship in 2005. Her book Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (2006) was awarded the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in January 2008. She has also co-edited a volume of essays entitled Representations of War in Ancient Rome (2006), which was reviewed in the TLS (Feb. 2, 2007). Professor Dillon was a member of the Aphrodisias Excavations in Turkey from 1992-2004, and collaborated on the study and publication of Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias (2006), the second volume in the Aphrodisias Monograph series. She is currently co-editing the Blackwell Companion to Women in Antiquity with her colleague Sharon James of UNC-Chapel Hill.
| Current Institution | Duke University |
| Department | Classical Studies |
| Disciplines | |
| Address | 106 East Duke Building Campus Box 90764 Durham North Carolina 27708-0103 United States Phone: (919) 684-6082 |
| Office Hours | Tuesdays 11-1, or by appointment |
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Education
New York University
Institute of Fine Arts
Ph.D.,
Art History
(1994)
Rutgers University
B.A.,
Art History
(1989)
State University of New York
Fashion Institute of Technology
A.A.S.,
Jewelry Design
(1987)
Work Experience
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Duke University
Associate Professor
Duke University
(2007 - Present)
Achievements
- Millard Meiss Fund Publication Grant, College Art Association. Publication subvention ($4500) for Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (Cambridge University Press) (2004 - 2005)
- Getty Grant Subvention for Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, to work with Prof. Dr. Tonio Hölscher in Heidelberg (declined) (1999 - 2000)
General
Publication Summary
Single-authored Monographs
- The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (Cambridge University Press, 2010; paperback edition, 2011).
- Reviews: C. Daniel-Hughes, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.7.55;
- P. Thonemann, Times Literary Supplement, 18 November 2010, p. 26;
- P. Schultz, American Journal of Archaeology 115.2.2011, on-line review;
- C. Vout, Perspective. Actualités de la recherche en histoire de l'art. La revue de l'INHA (2010-2011) 277;
- M. Mathys, Museum Helveticum 68.1 (2011) 102;
- Leventi, Histara les comptes rendus 2011-06-22, on-line review;
- C. Keesling, Classical Review 61 (2011) 597-98.
Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (Cambridge University Press, 2006; forthcoming in paperback in 2012).
- Winner of the 2008 James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological
- Institute of America.
- Reviews: J. Tanner, Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007) p. 221;
- B. Barletta, Classical Review 57 (2007) 522-23;
- B. Bäbler, Classical Bulletin 83 (2007) 278-79;
- E. D’Ambra, American Journal of Archaeology 112.1.2008, on-line review;
- P. Schultz, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.04.07;
- D. Willers, Museum Helveticum 65.3 (2008) p. 172;
- C. Hardiman, Phoenix 62 (2008) 418-20;
- D. Piekarski, Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 11 (2008) 1017-1024;
- C.M. Keesling, Mouseion 8 (2008) 312-315;
- N. Spivey, Greece and Rome 56 (2009) 124-25;
- E. Varner, caa.reviews (September 15, 2011).
Co-authored books
- Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, R.R.R. Smith (excavation and project director/editor), with C.H. Hallett, J. Lenaghan and J. Van Voorhis (Phillip von Zabern, 2006).
- Reviews: D. Willers, Museum Helveticum 64 (2007) 186-87;
- J. Tanner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.04.07;
- C. Vout, Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007) 340-42;
- B. Borg, Journal of Roman Archaeology 20 (2007) 583-88;
- P. Stewart, Classical Review 58 (2008) 272-73;
- Z. Newby, American Journal of Archaeology on-line reviews, 112.3 (2008);
- E. Hemelrijk, BABesch 83 (2008) 195-96;
- J.C. Balty, AntCl 77 (2008) 804-5;
- L. Bianchi ArchCl 59 (2008) 476-80;
- L. Stirling, Phoenix 63 (2009) 218-220.
Co-edited books
- Representations of War in Ancient Rome, co-edited with K. Welch (Cambridge University Press, 2006; paperback edition, 2009).
- Reviews: C. Beckmann, Mouseion 6 (2006) 273-78;
- M. Beard, TLS (February 2, 2007) 11-12;
- J.B. Grossman, AJA 111 (2007) 817-18;
- R. Brilliant, JRA 20 (2007) 481-86;
- M.P. Fronda, ClBulletin 83 (2007) 306-308;
- M.M. Sage, CR 58 (2008) 277-79;
- J. Armstrong, JRS 98 (2008) 185-186;
- S. James, CambrAJ 19 (2009) 130-132;
- M.B. Charles, Latomus 68 (2009) 194-196.
- The Past is Present: The Kempner Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, co-edited with Carla M. Antonaccio (Nasher Museum of Art and Duke University Press, November 2011).
- A Companion to Women in the Ancient World, co-edited with Sharon L. James, in press with Wiley-Blackwell, January 2012.
Articles and book chapters
- “Terracotta Figurines,” in Samothrace; excavations conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University: Vol. 9, The monuments of the Eastern Hill, by B.D.Wescoat (in press, American School of Classical Studies at Athens).
- “Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period,” in A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) 263-77.
- “Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines,” case study in A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) 231-34.
- “Marble Votive Statuettes of Women from the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace,” in B. Wescoat and O. Palagia eds., Samothracian Connections: Essays in honor of James R. McCredie (Oxbow, 2010) 165-172.
- “Portraits of Women in the Early Hellenistic Period,” in P. Schultz and R. von den Hoff eds., Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context (Cambridge University Press, 2007) 63-83.
- “Women on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius and the Visual Language of Roman Victory,” in S. Dillon and K. Welch eds., Representations of War in Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2006) 244-271.
- “Subject selection and viewer reception of Greek portraits from Herculaneum and Tivoli,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 13 (2000) 21-40.
- “Figured Pilaster Capitals from Aphrodisias in Caria,” American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997) 731-69.
- “The portraits of a civic benefactor of 2 Nd -c. Ephesos,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 9 (1996) 261-74.
Book reviews
- R. Neer, The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture (Chicago, 2010), forthcoming in Art Bulletin.
- J. Fejfer, Roman Portraits in Context (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), forthcoming in caa.reviews.
- O. Jaeggi, Die griechischen Porträts. Antike Repräsentation – Moderne Projection (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2008) forthcoming in Bonner Jahrbücher.
- Cohen, Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and their Cultural Traditions (Cambridge, 2010), American Journal of Archaeology on-line reviews 115.4, October 2011.
- S. Bell and I.S. Hansen eds., Role Models in Roman Art: Identity and Assimilation (University of Michigan Press, 2008), Journal of Roman Archaeology 23 (2010) 583-86.
- D. Piekarski, Anonyme griechische Porträts des 4.Jhs v.Chr. (Rahden/Westf. 2004) Gnomon 80 (2008) 248-50.
- J.Tanner, The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece: Religion, Society, and Artistic Rationalisation (Cambridge, 2006), in Sehepunkte 7 (2007) no. 12.
- M. Papini, Antichi Volti della Repubblica. La Ritrattistica in Italia Centrale Tra IV E II Secolo A.C. Vol. 1. Test; Vol. 2. Tavole (Bulletino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma Supplimenti 13; Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2004), Journal of Roman Archaeology 20 (2007) 428-31.
- O. Palagia ed., Greek Scultpure. Function, Materials, and Techniques in the Archaic and Classical Periods (Cambridge, 2006), Classical Review 57.2 (2007) 521-22.
- A.A. Donohue, Greek Sculpture and the Problem of Description (Cambridge, 2005), Art Bulletin 89 (2007) 160-62.
- B.F. Cook, Relief Sculpture of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Oxford 2005), Classical Review 56.2 (2006) 453-54.
- C.H. Hallett, The Roman Nude. Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC-AD 300 (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation, Oxford University Press, 2005) in Sehepunkt 6 (2006) no. 11.
- L. Llewellyn-Jones, Aphrodite’s Tortoise: The Veiled Women of Ancient Greece (Swansea 2003), Classical Review 55.2 (2005) 682-84.
- B.S. Ridgway, Hellenistic Sculpture III: The Styles of ca. 100-31 B.C. (Madison, WI 2002), Classical Review 54 (2004) 229-30.
- Ralf Krumeich, Bildnisse griechischer Herrscher und Staatsmänner im 5. Jahrhundert v.Chr. (Munich 1997), Bryn Mawr Classical Review October 10, 2001.
- ”Imaging Julio-Claudian Women,” review of Susan Wood, Imperial Women: A Study in Public Images 40 B.C.-A.D. 46 (Mnemosyne no. 194, Brill 1999), Journal of Roman Archaeology 14 (2001) 557-59.
- Elizabeth Bartman, Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Woman in Augustan Rome (Cambridge 1999), Classical World 93 (1999) 115-16.
- “Repetition and variation in ancient art,” review article of Carol C. Mattusch, Classical Bronzes: The Art and Craft of Greek and Roman Statuary (Ithaca and New York 1996) in Journal of Roman Archaeology 10 (1997) 441-46 (refereed).
- Carol C. Mattusch, The Fire of Hephaistos (Cambridge, MA 1996) in American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997) 806-7.
Encyclopedia/Dictionary Entries
- “Portraiture, Greece and Rome,” in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Edited by Roger Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige Champion, Andrew Erskine, Sabine Hübner. Forthcoming, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- “Portraits and Portraiture,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Edited by Michael Gagarin. Oxford University Press, 2009.
- ‘‘Nike of Samothrace,’ ‘Pergamum Altar,’ and ‘Polyeuktos: Portrait of Demosthenes,’ in Encyclopedia of Sculpture. Edited by A. Boström. Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.
Books
A Companion to Women in the Ancient WorldA Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient...
The female portrait statue in the Greek worldBy
Sheila Dillon,
2010
In this book, Sheila Dillon offers the first detailed analysis of the female portrait statue in the Greek world from the 4th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. A major component of Greek...
Representations of war in ancient RomeWar suffused Roman life to a degree unparalleled in other ancient societies. Through a combination of obsessive discipline and frenzied (though carefully orchestrated) brutality, Rome's armies... |
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