Amy C. Smith

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Amy C. Smith

Amy Clair Smith (born September 24, 1966 ) is an American Classical Archaeologist .

Amy C. Smith studied Classical Archeology at Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire , where she earned a Bachelor of Arts . Your other statements she made at the Yale University , where she in 1997 with a thesis on personifications of ancient Greece doctorate was. In addition, she received her academic training at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens , in whose excavations she participated in the Athens Agora and in Corinth , at the American Academy in Rome and the American Numismatic Society .

As a lecturer , she taught at Tufts University , Boston College and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston . She worked as editor for the American Journal of Archeology and the Perseus Project . She worked as Assistant Curator at Yale University Art Gallery before becoming Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archeology and Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Reading in 2000 .

At the Ure Museum , she expanded the database on the museum holdings from 2002 and, together with Brian Fuchs from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, developed the Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives . It should make it possible to develop comparative items from other museums for the data stocks of relatively small museums and to make them accessible in teaching and research. The Ure Museum served as a case study in building the project. In 2004 and 2005, Amy C. Smith restructured the museum's holdings and edited its vase collection, which she published in 2007 as part of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum as fascicle 23 of the British volumes.

In 2016, Amy C. Smith taught as visiting professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, where she taught the summer course. On the occasion of the celebrations for the 300th birthday of Johann Joachim Winckelmann in 2017, as a member of the International Committee of the Winckelmann Society, together with Katherine Harloe and other congresses, lecture series and the exhibition Winckelmann in Italy: Curiosity and connoisseurship in the 18th-century gentleman's study at Christ Church in Oxford . In 2017/18 she was a visiting researcher at the Humanities Research Center of the Australian National University in Canberra .

Amy C. Smith's research interests include, in particular, Greek vase painting and Greek iconography in terms of their political, religious and gender-specific significance. In addition, she deals intensively with museum collections, the history of collections, museum education and the digital possibilities of bringing the contents of the collection closer to a new audience.

Publications (selection)

  • Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain Fascicule 23, Reading Museum Service (Reading Borough Council). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007.
  • as editor with Sadie Pickup: Brill's Companion to Aphrodite. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2010.
  • Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (= Monumenta Graeca et Romana. Volume 19). Brill, Leiden 2011.
  • as editor with Katherine Harloe among others: Winckelmann and Curiosity in the 18th-century Gentleman's Library. Christ Church Library Exhibitions. Christ Church Publications, Oxford 2018.

Web links

Commons : Amy C. Smith  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Brian Fuchs, Leif Isaksen, Amy Smith: The Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives: A Portlet Solution for Structured Data Reuse Across Distributed Visual Resources. In: Museums and the Web. 2005.
  2. ^ Winckelmann in Italy on the Christ Church website .
  3. ^ Entry on the website of the Humanities Research Center of the Australian National University .
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Amy C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Amy Clair (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Classical Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1966