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Professor Ilaria Romeo

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Ilaria Romeo
Dipartimento di Antichità e Tradizione Classica
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Via Columbia, 1
00173 Roma


EDUCATION
1994-1997 Doctoral Student in the "Classical Antiquities in Italy and their Survival" programme, University of Rome II and University of Trieste.

Dottore di Ricerca [Ph.D.] awarded July 1997. Dissertation title: "Ingenuus Leo. Il ruolo di Marco Vipsanio Agrippa nell'ideologia del principato giulio-claudio attraverso le fonti iconografiche".

1989-1992 Graduate Student in the School of Specialization in Archaeology and the History of Graeco-Roman Art, Italian School of Archaeology in Athens. Diploma of Specialization awarded June 1992. Dissertation title: "Sculture ideali da Gortina".

1986-1987 Undergraduate in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Rome II "Tor Vergata". Laurea in Lettere awarded with First Class Honours, November 1987. Dissertation title: "Sacelli arcaici senza peristasi nella Sicilia greca".

1982-1986 Undergraduate in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Rome I "La Sapienza".

EMPLOYMENT
2002 Spring Quarter: Instructor, University of Chicago Study Abroad Program on "Greek Antiquity and Its Legacy", Athens.

2001 Spring quarter: Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology. University of Chicago, Division of Humanities and the College.

1999-2000 Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology.
University of Chicago, Division of Humanities and the College.

1996- Ricercatore [tenured Assistant Professor] in Archaeology and the History of Graeco-Roman Art, Department of Classical Antiquity and its Tradition, Division of Humanities, University of Rome II "Tor Vergata".


POSITIONS AND POSTS
1998- University of Rome II "Tor Vergata": Voting Member of the Department of Classical Antiquities and Tradition. Undergraduate orientation and advising. Undergraduate dissertation examiner. Graduate instructor.

1996-98 University of Rome II "Tor Vergata": Voting member of the Department of History; Undergraduate orientation and advising; Undergraduate dissertation examiner.


GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIP
2002 Two-month CNR - NATO Senior Fellowship Programme to continue studying Late Antique material from the Abbey of Grottaferrata (Rome) at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC.

1998 Short-mobility Program (21 days), granted by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche to study Late Antique material from the Abbey of Grottaferrata at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC.

1998-99 Visiting Scholar, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C.

1994-1996 State Scholarship, University of Rome II "Tor Vergata".

1995 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Archaeology, University of Heidelberg.

1994 Twelve-month Scholarship, German Archaeological Institute, Rome.

1993 Eleven-month Advanced Fellowship awarded by NATO and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche to study Roman sculptures from Gortyn (Crete) at the British School of Archaeology in Athens.
Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.

1989-1991 State Scholarship, School of Specialization, Italian School of Archaeology in Athens.

1989 Five-month grant awarded by the Italian Foreign Office to study in Greece.

1988 Two-month grant awarded by the Italian Foreign Office to study Raphael's disegni dall'antico in the Albertina Graphische Sammlung, Vienna.


TEACHING

2002
Spring Quarter: Instructor, University of Chicago Study Abroad Program on "Greek Antiquity and Its Legacy", Athens. Classroom lectures on Greek Art and Roman Greece; museum and on-site presentation in Athens, Delphi, Olympia, Thessaloniki, Vergina, Rhamnous, Sounion, Eleusis, Marathon, Mycene, Epidauros.

2001
University of Chicago, Department of Classics and the College
- Spring quarter: lecture courses on "Hellenistic and Roman Art," and "Art and Politics in Greece and Rome"

University of Rome II Tor Vergata, Department of Classical Antiquity and its Tradition:
- Winter semester: lecture course on " Archaic Greek Sculpture"

1999-2000
University of Chicago, Department of Classics and the College
- Fall Quarter: lecture course on "Greek Art" .
-Winter Quarter: lecture courses on "The City of Rome" and "Precolonial Encounters in the Greek World"
- Spring Quarter: University of Chicago Study Abroad Program. "Greek Antiquity and its Legacy", Athens. Classroom lectures on Greek Art and Roman Greece; museum and on-site presentation in Athens, Delphi, Olympia, Thessaloniki, Vergina, Rhamnous, Sounion, Eleusis, Marathon, Mycene, Epidauros.

1996-1998
University of Rome II "Tor Vergata", Department of History
-13-week lecture courses on "Greek Art of the Classical and Hellenistic periods".
-Coordinator and co-Lecturer for 18-week interdisciplinary teaching seminar on "Greeks and Levantines in Pithekoussai in the Eighth Century BC".

1992, 1993
British School at Athens, Summer School.
-Classroom lectures on "Greek Architecture", "Greek Sculpture" and "Roman Greece".
-Onsite lectures at the Athenian acropolis, the Theatre of Dionysos, the Athenian agora, the Roman agora, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Athens National Museum, Thorikos, Sounion, Eleusis, Epidauros, Delphi, Corinth, Tegea and Olympia.


FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
1988-2001 Trench Supervisor, Area G, Italian Archaeological School excavations at Gortyn (Crete).

1985-1986 Trench Supervisor, Manuzza, Soprintendenza di Palermo excavations of the ancient city of Selinous (Province of Trapani).


CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND SEMINAR PAPERS
- "Likeness and Icon. The Origins of Constantinian Classicism". Public lecture, YaleUniversity (New Haven, CT), January 2001.

- (With E.C. Portale), "Gortina ed il commercio mediterraneo tra l'età di Augusto e la conquista araba: le anfore da trasporto". Creta Romana e protobizantina, Convegno Internazionale, Heraklion, September 2000.

- "The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus", Paper, Ancient Society Workshop, Department of Classics, University of Chicago, Winter Term 2000

- "Columns Glowing Red with Gold. Imperial Residences in the Early Fourth Century CE", Public lecture, Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) Departments of Classics, April 1999.

- "Heres or Collega: The Role of Marcus Agrippa on the Ara Pacis Frieze", Public lecture, University of Chicago, November 1998.

- The Parthenon in the context of the Periclean Building Program", Class, University of Chicago, November 1998.

-(With E.C. Portale), "Le anfore locali da Gortina ellenistica e romana" (poster). Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores. XXIst International Congress, Ephesus and Pergamon, September 1998.

-"Il 13 a.C. ed il ruolo di Agrippa nel fregio dell'Ara Pacis". XVth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Amsterdam, July 1998.

-"Alcibiades in Samos. A portrait from the Museo Nazionale Romano". Public lecture, Institute of Archaeology, University of Heidelberg, May 1995.

-"La topografia di Selinunte alla luce dei più recenti scavi". Public lecture, Castelvetrano (Province of Trapani), May 1987.

PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS

-INGENUUS LEO. L'immagine di Agrippa (Monografie di Xenia Antiqua 6). Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1998.

-(With E.C. Portale) Gortina III. Le Sculture (Monografie della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene 8). Padua: Ausilio, 1998.


ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES
- (With E.C. Portale), Le anfore, in A. Di Vita (ed.), Gortina V.3. Lo Scavo del Pretorio (1989-1995). (Monografie della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, 12), Padua: Ausilio 2001, pp. 260-406.

-"Il Settore G", in A. di Vita (ed.), Gortina V.1. Lo Scavo del Pretorio. Monografie della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, XII. Padua: Ausilio (2000), pp. 737-749.

- "Tra Massenzio e Costantino: il ruolo delle botteghe urbane ed ostiensi nella creazione del ritratto costantiniano", in Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale 100, 1999, pp. 197-228.

- (With E.C. Portale) "Le anfore locali da Gortina ellenistica e romana", in Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta 36, 2000, pp. 417-426.

-"Il 13 a.C. ed il ruolo di Marco Vipsanio Agrippa sul fregio dell'Ara Pacis", in R.F. Docter and E.M. Moormann (eds.), Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Amsterdam 1998 (2000).

-Articles on "Crisolefantino", "T.J. Dunbabin", "Elst", "Erma", in S. Moscati, A. Giuliano, G. Rizza (eds.), Enciclopedia Archeologica 2. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (forthcoming).

-"Il Panhellenion, Gortina ed una nuova copia dello Zeus di Dresda", Annuario della Scuola Archeological Italiana di Atene , LXX-LXXI, 1992-93 (1998), pp.325-337.

-"Una replica settecentesca dell'Alessandro Capitolino", Xenia Antiqua 7, 1998, pp. 203-211.

-"Genius", Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. 8, Supplement, 599-607. Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1998.

-Catalogue entries nos. 47-49, 51-52, 73 and 78 in A. Giuliano (ed.), Museo Nazionale Romano. Le Sculture I/12.1. Rome: De Luca,1995.

-"Alcibiade a Samo. Un ritratto nel Museo Nazionale Romano", Bollettino d'Arte 84-85 (1994) 1-16.

-"Considerazioni sulla scultura votiva di età classica da Creta: una nuova testa di Apollo da Gortina," Numismatica ed Antichità Classiche 23 (1994) 99-110.

-"La fanciulla con il loto. Una statuetta bronzea a Cambridge e l'iconografia delle korai arcaiche", Rendiconti dell'Accademia dei Lincei 5 (1994) 157-171.

-"Sull' "Afrodite nei giardini" di Alcamene", Xenia Antiqua 2 (1993) 31-44.

-"Immagini del potere e potere delle immagini", Storia Contemporanea 21 (1990) 895-926.

-"Raffaello, l'antico e le bordure vaticane", Xenia 19 (1990) 41-86.

-"Sacelli arcaici senza peristasi nella Sicilia greca", Xenia 17 (1989) 5-54.


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