CONSTANZE
WITTDepartment of
Classics
University of Texas at
Austin
Waggener Hall 123
Austin TX 78712
Art and Archaeology of Greece, Iron Age Europe and the Ancient Near East; Art, History, Literature of the Hellenistic Mediterranean; Anthropological Theory (mortuary analysis; interregional interaction; explanations of cultural and stylistic change).
Other interests, and snapshots from my recent trip: see my personal home page.
PhD in Classical Archaeology/Art History, University of Virginia,
May 1997.
Dissertation topic:
Barbarians
on the Greek Periphery? Origins of Celtic Art
Abstract/Proposal
on-line (no JavaScript)
Advisor: Christopher Johns
Field Exams completed November 1992
Fields: Classical Archaeology, Hellenistic Sculpture, Terracottas
Supervisor: Malcolm Bell, III
Master's Degree in Classical Archaeology, February 1990
Minors: Hittite, Near Eastern Archaeology
Universität Würzburg, Germany
Supervisor: Heide Froning
Thesis Title: Das Bewegungsmotif der Baker-Tänzerin in der
griechischen Kleinkunst
Summa cum laude
A.B. Degree in Ancient Studies, 1983
Barnard College, Columbia University
Cum laude
Instructional Technology Specialist, Classics Department, University of Texas at Austin, July 1997 - current
Instructor, Art and its Purposes (Art History 201), and Survey of the History of Art, Part I (Art History 205), James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Virginia) Spring Semester 1996
Technical Teaching Assistant for internet publishing, Roman Houses and Villas (graduate seminar), Professor: John Dobbins, Fall Semester 1995
Electronic Publishing Assistant, University Publications, University of Virginia, 1995-1997
Digital imager and digital graphics assistant to Visual Resources Curator, University of Virginia Art Department, 1993-1995
Text editor, Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia Press, 1991-1995
Student programmer/Digital imager, Digital Image Center, University of Virginia, summer-fall 1995
Associate Director of Studies, Administration, Hereford College, University of Virginia, 1993-94
Lecturer, Greek Art, Art History 213 undergraduate lecture course, University of Virginia, Fall 1993
Teaching Assistant, Art History 102 (second half of survey), University of Virginia, Supervisor: Lawrence O. Goedde, Spring 1993
Lecturer, Art of the Hellenistic World, Art History 491 fourth-year seminar, University of Virginia, Fall 1992
Excavation Registrar, Morgantina, Sicily University of Virginia excavation, Supervisor: Malcolm Bell, III; Summer 1992
Teaching Assistant, Art History 102 (second half of survey), University of Virginia, Supervisor: Lawrence O. Goedde, Spring 1992
Teaching Assistant, Art History 101 (first half of survey), University of Virginia, Supervisor: David Lawall, Fall 1991
Instructor, Animals in Ancient Art, University of Virginia Summer Enrichment Program, Summer 1991
Teaching Assistant, German 102, University of Virginia, Spring 1992
Instructor, Assistant for Curriculum Development: English. Würzburger Dolmetscherschule (school for translators and interpreters) Würzburg, Germany; 1984-September 1990
Curatorial Assistant, Gallery Speaker, Docent, Assistant in Conservation (ad hoc), Martin-von- Wagner Museum, Würzburg, Germany; 1984-1990
"'Dark and Uncanny': Looking at Celtic Art" AIA lecture, Austin, February 1998
"Whose Barbarians? Celtic or Greek" Luncheon Talk, Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory, January 1998
"The City Shown and Seen" Paper, APA Meeting, Chicago, December 1997
"Drinking and Death in Iron Age Europe: Mediterranean Imports and Early Celtic Style" Paper, AIA Meeting, San Diego, December 1995
"Playthings of the Rich? Images of the Poor in Hellenistic Art" Paper, APA Meeting, San Diego, December 1995
Co-Organizer, "Opulence and Penury in the Hellenistic World" Panel, AIA/APA Meeting, San Diego, December 1995
"Barbarians on the Greek Periphery? Emulation or Innovation in Early Celtic Style" Paper, SECAC Meeting, New Orleans; October 1994
"Mediterranean Vessels in Celtic Tombs: Questioning the Model of 'Hellenization'" Paper, Yale Graduate Symposium on Art and Archaeology: Mediterranean Interactions; April 1994
"The Language of Greek Art" Guest Lecture, Classics 204: Mythology; March 1994
"Greek Influence on South Italian Vase Painting and Etruscan Style" Lecture to Docents, Bayly Art Museum Education Department; January 1994
"Daily Life in Third Century Morgantina: Ritual, Play and Women's Work" Paper, SECAC Meeting, Chapel Hill; October 1993
"Greek and Etruscan Art" Gallery Talk, Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia; October 1993
"Greek Myths and Greek Art" Guest Lecture, Summer Classics Course, University of Virginia; August 1993
"Spectacle and Piety in Theocritus' Idyll 15" Guest Lecture, Classics Department University of Virginia; March 1993
"An Etruscan Urn in the Bayly Museum: The Hero with the Plow" Paper, SECAC Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama; October 1992
"Egyptomania in Augustan Art" Paper accepted, not delivered, AIEMA Colloquium, Charlottesville, Virginia; October 1992
Frequent gallery talks, Martin-von-Wagner-Museum, Würzburg, Germany; 1985-1990
"Classical Legend or Contemporary Resistance Figure? The Hero with the Plow on an Etruscan Urn in the Bayly Museum" Southeastern College Art Conference Review Volume XII, Number 3, 1993, pp. 192-199.
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