Amy C. Smith
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Dartmouth College, Yale University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical archaeology |
Institutions | Tufts University, Boston College, Massachusetts College of Art, University of Reading |
Amy C. Smith is the current Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology and Professor of Classical Archaeology at Reading University.[1] She is known for her work on iconography, the history of collections, and digital museology.
Career
[edit]Smith received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MA, MPhil, and PhD (1997) from Yale University, all in classical archaeology.[2] Her doctoral thesis was on the topic of Greek personification and this work was published as a monograph in 2011.[3]
Smith taught at Tufts University, Boston College, and Massachusetts College of Art and worked at the Yale University Art Gallery before moving to the University of Reading.[1] At Reading, Smith headed the redevelopment of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology in 2004-05 and has worked on the university's collection of vases publishing the 23rd British fascicule of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum project in 2007.[4][5] Her work on iconography has included research on the depiction of Aphrodite and personifications in Greek art.[6]
Smith's current work centres on the 2017/18 anniversary of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. She is a member of the Winckelmann-Gesellschaft's International Committee focusing on events to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Winckelmann's birth.[7] Smith is a co-organiser of a series of conferences to mark the anniversary and is also the co-curator (with Katherine Harloe) of the exhibition Winckelmann in Italy: Curiosity and connoisseurship in the 18th-century gentleman's study at Christ Church Upper Library from 29 June to 26 October 2018.[8]
Professional work and associations
[edit]Creator (with Brian Fuchs) of the Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives.[9][10]
Founding member in 2011 of the Pottery in Context Research Network (ICS, London).[1][11]
Member of the Digital Classics Advisory Committee, 2016-18 (ICS, London).[12]
Founding member of the International Network of Classical Archaeology University Collections.[1]
Research associate of the Beazley Archive, University of Oxford.[13]
Member of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2015–16; excavated at their excavations in Greece (the Athenian Agora and Corinth) and Spain (Pollentia).[14]
Member of the advisory board of the Institute in Ancient Itineraries: The Digital Lives of Art History based at King's College, London.[15]
Honours
[edit]2016 Gertrude Smith Visiting Professor, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.[16][17]
Smith was a 2017/2018 visiting research fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University[18] in Canberra and was invited to give the 2017 Trendall Lecture at La Trobe University in Melbourne entitled 1766 and All That! Winckelmann and the Study of Greek Vases.[19][20]
Selected publications
[edit]- with K Harloe and C Neagu (eds), Winckelmann and Curiosity: In the 18th-century Gentleman's Library (Christ Church Library, Oxford and Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading; 2018)
- Winckelmann, Greek masterpieces, and architectural sculpture. Prolegomena to a history of classical archaeology in museums (Studies in Classical Archaeology, 1. 2017)
- Polis and personification in Classical Athenian art (Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 19. Brill, Leiden 2011)
- with S Pickup (eds), Brill's Companion to Aphrodite (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies. Brill, Leiden 2010)
- Corpus vasorum antiquorum, Great Britiain fascicule 23. Reading Museum Service (Oxford University Press, 2007)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Professor Amy Smith". Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Amy C. Smith". Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ^ Stafford, Emma (April 2016). "Review of: Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 19". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- ^ "CVA - Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum". www.cvaonline.org. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum | British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Smith". www.roman-emperors.org. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ V., Winckelmann Gesellschaft e. (15 January 2018). "United Kingdom". winckelmann-gesellschaft.com. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Winckelmann in Italy | Christ Church, Oxford University". www.chch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ^ "Digital Classicist: wip wip2006". www.digitalclassicist.org. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ Brian, Fuchs; Leif, Isaksen; Amy, Smith (2005). "The virtual lightbox for museums and archives: a portlet solution for structured data reuse across distributed visual resources". eprints.soton.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Annual Report 64 Institute of Classical Studies" (PDF). Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Digital Classics Advisory Committee". Institute of Classical Studies. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ^ "Beazley Archive - The Classical Art Research Centre". www.beazley.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Managing Committee". Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ^ "King's College London - Call for members: Major new Institute opens at King's College London with Getty Foundation support". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Positions at the ASCSA / About / The American School of Classical Studies at Athens". www.ascsa.edu.gr. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Gertrude Smith: A Classic American Philhellene". From the Archivist's Notebook. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ Centre, Head; [email protected] (27 September 2017). "Encountering Strangers in Classical Athenian Art: The Case of the Pan Painter". Humanities Research Centre. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Professor Amy Smith gives prestigious Trendall Lecture". Classics at Reading. 13 November 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ^ University, La Trobe. "2017 Trendall Lecture". www.latrobe.edu.au. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.