Kris Seaman | University of Oregon (original) (raw)

Kris Seaman is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Classics at the University of Oregon. Educated at Yale University and the University of California at Berkeley, she was a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, and she carried out additional archaeological training at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. She has excavated in Greece, Israel, Italy, and the United States, and she has studied the practice of stone-carving.

Her research deals with Greek art and architecture and its interaction with Rome and the Middle East. She is the author of Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art (Cambridge University Press 2020) and the co-editor (with Peter Schultz) of Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press 2017). Currently, she is working on a book project that explores labor, ethnicity, and multiculturalism in the ancient Greek sculpture industry; co-editing (with S. Rebecca Martin) a book about the contexts of Greek sculpture; and examining excavated sculpture and tools from a sculptural workshop in the Athenian Agora.

Kris has received several fellowships and grants, including funding from the Archaeological Institute of America, the Fulbright Foundation, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (IKY).

If you’re interested in pursuing graduate study in ancient Mediterranean art and architecture at the University of Oregon, please contact me to learn more information about our MA and PhD programs. The Department of the History of Art and Architecture offers fully-funded PhD fellowships to competitive applicants. For information about the study of Mediterranean art and architecture at the University of Oregon, please see: https://design.uoregon.edu/mediterranean-world

“Ancient Mediterranean art historians at the University of Oregon strive to create an equitable and inclusive environment for all students, faculty, and staff. We explore the richness and diversity of the ancient Mediterranean world through multiple methods and approaches, curious and open-minded inquiry, and a desire to place cultures in dialogue with one another. We are committed to confronting and correcting our field’s historical inequities by welcoming and valuing students, scholars, and scholarship from non-traditional, underrepresented, and marginalized groups.”
Address: Department of the History of Art and Architecture
5229 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5229
USA

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