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Professor of Classics
Ph.D. 1966 (art history and archaeology), Columbia; M.A. 1957 (classics), Cincinnati; B.A. 1954 (fine arts and classics), Barnard College.
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Research Interests: Greek, Roman, and Etruscan culture; nudity and dress; early Italy; early Rome; Etruscan culture and influence.
Fellowships/Honors: Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1980; Great Teacher Award, Alumni Federation, NYU, 1983; Dignitario, Ombra della Sera, Volterra, 1983; Golden Dozen, Dean's Award, 1987; Premio Tagete for Archaeology, Tarquinia, 1990. Archaeological Institute of America, George Hanfmann Lecturer, 1999-2000; Homer Thompson Lecturer, 2000-2001; Richard Howland Lecturer, 2001-2002; Oklahoma Scholar Leadership Program (OSLEP), 2004. Jerome Lectures, American Academy in Rome and University of Michigan, 2006-7.
Selected Works:
BOOKS: Etruscan Dress (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 1975; paperback edition 2003); co-editor, with Helga von Heintze, In Memoriam Otto J. Brendel. Essays in Archaeology and the Humanities (von Zabern Verlag, Mainz 1975) 13-20; Out of Etruria. Etruscan Influence North and South. BAR, International Series S103, Oxford 1981; The Etruscan Language: An Introduction, with G. Bonfante (Manchester, New York 1983; Italian trans. 1985, Romanian trans. 1996. Second edition, 2002); Etruscan Life and Afterlife, A Handbook of Etruscan Studies, editor and author (Detroit, MI. 1986. Romanian trans.); Reading The Past: Etruscan.BritishMuseum Publications (London and Berkeley, CA. 1990; Polish trans. 1996; French trans. 1994). The World of Roman Dress, co-edited, with Judith Sebesta (Madison, WI 1994). Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum USA 3. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Rome 1997); edited G. Bonfante, The Origin of the Romance Languages (Heidelberg 1999); Italy and Cyprus in Antiquity: 1500-450 BC, co-edited, with Vassos Karageorghis (Nicosia 2001).
Forthcoming: Etruscan Myth, with Judith Swaddling, British Museum Publications and University of Texas Press.
ARTICLES: "Roman Triumphs and Etruscan Kings:The Changing Face of the Triumph," Journal of Roman Studies 60 (1970) 49-66; "Roman Dress. Etruscan Derivations and a Glossary," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römische Welt, ed. H. Temporini (Berlin-New York, 1973) I 4, 584-614; "Etruscan Couples and Their Aristocratic Society," Women in Antiquity. Women's Studies 8 (1981) 157-187; "Daily Life," "Kranzspiegel," and "Inscriptions," in A Guide to Etruscan Mirrors, ed. N. de Grummond (Tallahassee, FL. 1982) 69-89, 157-160; "Clothing and Ornament," with E. Jaunzems, in Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean, ed. Michael Grant and Rachel Kitzinger (Scribners, NY 1988); "Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art," American Journal of Archaeology 93 (1989) 543-570; "Iconografia delle madri nell' arte dell'Etruria, il Lazio e la Magna Grecia," in Le donne nel Lazio, ed. A. Rallo (Rome 1989) 49-63; "Etruscan Women," in Women in the Classical World (Oxford 1994) 243-259; "Etruscan Sexuality and Funerary Art," in Ancient Sexuality, N. Kampen, ed. (Cambridge 1996) 155-169; "Nursing Mothers in Classical Art," in Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology, ed. C. Lyons, A. Koloski-Ostrow (New York, London 1997) 174-196; “Classical Nudity in Italy and Greece,” Ancient Italy in its Mediterranean Setting. Studies in honour of Ellen Macnamara. Accordia Specialist Studies in the Mediterranean 4 (London 2000) 271-293; “Alcuni specchi etruschi nel Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Aspetti e problemi della produzione degli specchi etruschi figurati. Atti dell’incontro internazionale di studio,Rome 1997 (Rome 2000) 13-26. “The Greeks inEtruria,” Vassos Karageorghis, ed. The Greeks Beyond the Aegean: from Marseilles to Bactria. New York 2003, 43-58.
In Preparation or Forthcoming. Books
The Barbarians of Ancient Europe. Proceedings of the Conference, Richmond, VA 2003, editor; Highlights of the Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome, co-editor, with Helen Nagy. Nudity as a Costume in the Ancient Mediterranean, editor and author. Highlights of the Antiquities Collection of New York University, editor, with Blair Fowlkes. With Judith Swaddling, Etruscan Myth, The British Museum Press.
Articles“The Etruscan Impact on AncientEurope,” in G.R. Tsetskhladze, ed., The Black Sea, Greece, Anatolia and Europe in the 1st MillenniumBC. Dedicated to Prof. J. Bouzek. Colloquia Pontica.
“Advertising their Own Wares,” in DEPAS. Across Frontiers. Festschrift in Honor of D. and F.R.S Ridgway.
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