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John Pollini is Professor of Classical Art, Archaeology, and History and USC Associates Endowed Professor in Art History, Department of Art History at the University of Southern California.

He received his BA (magna cum laude) in Classics at the University of Washington (1968) and both his M.A.(1973) and Ph.D. (1978) from the University of California at Berkeley in the interdepartmental program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. He taught as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University before being appointed an assistant professor in the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, where he also served as Curator of the University's Archaeological Museum. At the University of Southern California, where he has taught since 1987, he has served as Chair of the Department and as Dean of the School of Fine Arts. In the past he has participated in excavations at Aphrodisias in Turkey and in Italy at Ghiaccio Forte (Scansano), the port of Tarquinia (Gravisca), and most recently at the Area Sacra of San Omobono (Rome) and Ostia Antica.

Professor Pollini has received numerous fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, two American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships, a Getty Resident Fellowship, and a Morphomata Fellowship at the Internationales Morphomata-Kolleg, Universität zu Köln. In 2005 he was also the recipient of a Mellon Foundation Award for Excellence in Mentoring Students and in 2006-2007 was appointed the Whitehead Professor of Archaeology at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Among his other honors, he has been a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) since 2000 and a Fellow at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (UCLA) since 2010.

Professor Pollini has lectured widely in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He was chosen by the Archaeological Institute of America to hold their most prestigious lectureship, the Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship.
These 14 lectures were given in various venues in the United States, Canada, and Rome. In addition to his publishing many articles and reviews, he has authored five books and edited another, all dealing with various aspects of Greek and Roman art, considered in an interdisciplinary context.* He is presently working on two book projects: 1)“Christian Destruction and Desecration of Images and Temples of Classical Antiquity" and 2) "Augustus: From Image to Icon”
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* Major Publications (Books, Monographs, Catalogue):

I) The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar (Fordham University Press, New York 1987) (with a book subvention from the National Endowment for the Humanities).

II) Roman Portraiture: Images of Character and Virtue (exh. cat.), with graduate student participation (Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles 1990).

III) Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization:The Cobannus Hoard (Monumenta Graeca et Romana IX) (Brill, Leiden 2002).

IV) The de Nion Head: A Masterpiece of Archaic Greek Sculpture (Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2003).

V) Terra Marique: Studies in Art History and Marine Archaeology in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann on the Receipt of the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America (editor, designer, and contributor of introduction, publication list, and one of 19 essays) (Oxbow Publications, Oxford 2005).

VI) From Republic to Empire: Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of Ancient Rome (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 2012).

Email: pollini@usc.edu; Faculty Web Page with full CV: http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/ahis/ahis\_faculty\_display.cfm?person\_ID=1003612
Phone: 1-213-740-4552
Address: John Pollini
Prof. of Classical Art, Archaeology, & History
Department of Art History
Taper Hall 324
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0351

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