Elise A. Friedland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Classics and Art History
Department of Classical
and Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations
The George
Washington University
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Elise A. Friedland holds a BA in Classics
from Williams College and an MA and PhD in Classical Art and
Archaeology from the University of Michigan. Before coming to GWU, she
taught at Rollins College (Winter Park, FL) for ten years. She
serves as the sculpture specialist for the Excavations at the Sanctuary
of Pan at Caesarea Philippi/Banias in Israel and for the site of Jerash
in Jordan. Her co-edited book, entitled The Sculptural Environment of the Roman
Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power, was
published by Peeters Press in Belgium (2008).
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CONTACT
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Office:
308 Phillips Hall
Mailing Address:
Department of Classical and
Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations
The George
Washington University
801 2nd St. NW /
345 Phillips Hall
Washington,
DC 20052
Tel: 202-994-3056
FAX:
202-994-2156
E-mail:
efried@gwu.edu
FALL 2010
Office Hours:
Wednesdays & Fridays, 12:30-1:30 pm
and by appointment
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Download Prof. Friedland's Full CV.
Education
| 1997 |
University
of
Michigan |
Ph.D.
in Classical Art and
Archaeology |
| 1994 |
University
of
Michigan |
M.A.
in Classical Art and
Archaeology |
| 1988 |
Williams
College |
B.A.
in Classics, Magna Cum Laude |
| 1986 |
Intercollegiate
Center for
Classical Studies in Rome |
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Teaching and Research Areas
• Greek and Roman art and archaeology
• Roman sculpture and sculptural displays in
urban settings
• Cultural interaction in the Roman Near East
• Religion in the Roman Near East
• Museum studies
Recent and Future Courses
• Ancient Art of the
Bronze Age and Greece
• Greek Archaeology
• Roman Archaeology
• Art and Archaeology of
Pompeii and Roman Daily Life
• Intermediate Latin I
• Vergil's Aeneid
(Intermediate Latin II)
• Greece and Rome in
Washington, DC: Classical Influences on Our Founding Fathers
Recent Publications
2009
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“Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and
Culture around the Bay of Naples. An Exhibit at the National Gallery of
Art, Washington D.C.” Near Eastern
Archaeology 72.1: 55-59.
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2008
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The Sculptural Environment
of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and
Power. Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and
Religion,
9. Leuven: Peeters Press. Co-edited with Yaron Z. Eliav and
Sharon Herbert.
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2008
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“Visualizing
Deities in
the Roman Near East: Aspects of Athena and Athena-Allat,” in The
Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture,
Ideology, and Power. Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient
Culture
and Religion, 9. Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland, and Sharon Herbert
eds. Leuven: Peeters Press. |
2007
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"Shifting
Places, Changing
Faces: The Civic Statuary of Roman Jordan,” in Crossing Jordan: North
American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan, Thomas E.
Levy, P.
M. Michèle Daviau, Randall W. Younker, and May Shaer, eds.
London: Equinox Publishing, 341-347. |
2003
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“Art
as Cultural
Artifact: Roman Sculpture in the Semitic East.” In One Hundred Years of American Archaeology
in the Levant: Proceedings of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Centennial Celebration, Washington, DC, April 2000, edited by D.
Clark and V. Matthews, 327-340. |
2003
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“The
Roman Marble Sculptures from the North Hall of
the East Baths at Gerasa.” American
Journal of Archaeology 107: 413-448. |
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