Joan Breton Connelly

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Joan Connelly on Yeronisos in 2004

Joan Breton Connelly (* 1954 ) is an American classical archaeologist .

Life

Connelly first studied Classical Studies at Princeton University , where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in 1976. For further studies, she moved to Bryn Mawr College , graduating in 1979 with a master's degree and receiving her doctorate there in 1984 in Classical and Near Eastern Archeology . From 1982 to 1984 she taught there as a lecturer and worked in the dean's office . In 1986 she became Assistant Professor of Ancient Art History at New York University , in 1992 she became Associate Professor and has been Professor of Classical Antiquity and Ancient Art History since 2007 .

Connelly was a guest lecturer at several academic institutions, including at various colleges of the University of Oxford , the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Harvard , at Princeton University and at Swarthmore College .

research

Connelly's work focuses on art, mythology and religion in ancient Greece . As a cultural historian , she has dealt with a wide range of topics, ranging from the role of women and ritual places to landscape structures and individual life courses. With her book Portrait of a Priestess. Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece Connelly tried to give a new representation of the position of women in social and religious life. This book was named one of the Top 100 Books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review and won the Archaeological Institute of America's James R. Wiseman Book Award in 2009 . One of her most recent research results is a fundamentally new interpretation of the frieze on the Parthenon , which she presented to a wider public in detail in the book The Parthenon Enigma , published in 2014 .

Connelly conducted practical research in Corinth , Athens , Nemea , Paphos , Kourion , Marion and on the island of Failaka . Since 1990 her research focus has been on the island of Yeronisos off the west coast of Cyprus , where she not only directs the excavations , but also deals with the effects of the archaeological work on the natural environment. Her work often deals with the cultural development of Hellenism in the Middle East.

Further work

From 2003 to 2011 Connelly was a member of the US State Department's Cultural Property Advisory Committee .

In 2003, together with the architect Demetri Porphyrios , she submitted a proposal for the redesign of the World Trade Center site , which was heavily influenced by classical Greek architecture. She had public media appearances on BBC Radio 4 on the history of Greek priestesses, on the History Channel on the interpretation of the motifs from Star Wars and the explanation of the archaeological background of the Indiana Jones films as well as on the ABC television program about the excavations on Yeronisos. Connelly's articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Daily News , among others .

Memberships and honors

From 2009 to 2012 she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Bryn Mawr College Foundation. She is a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London , the Royal Geographical Society , the Explorers Club and the Society of Woman Geographers , among others .

Connelly received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996 , and in 2007 she was recognized for her teaching work by the Archaeological Institute of America . For 2015 she was awarded the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize for The Parthenon Enigma .

For her work on Yeronisos she became an honorary citizen of the municipality of Peyia in Cyprus.

Publications (selection)

  • Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus . New York, Nicosia 1988.
  • Parthenon and Parthenoi. A Mythological Interpretation of the Parthenon Frieze. In: American Journal of Archeology 100 (1996) 53-80.
  • Portrait of a Priestess. Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece Princeton University Press, Princeton 2007. ( sample chapter )
  • The Parthenon Enigma. A new understanding of the West's most iconic building and the people who made it. Knopf, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-307-47659-3 ; ISBN 978-0-307-59338-2 .
  • Narrative and Image in Attic Vase Painting: Ajax and Kassandra at the Trojan Palladion. In: Peter Holiday (Ed.): Narrative and Event in Ancient Art (Cambridge 1993) 88-129.
  • Votive Offerings of Hellenistic Failaka: Evidence for Herakles Cult. In: L'Arabie Préislamique et son Environnement Historique et Culturel, Université des Sciences Humaine de Strasbourg (Leiden 1989) 145-158.
  • Excavations on Geronisos (1990-1997): The First Report, II. In: Reports of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus , 2002.
  • Hellenistic and Byzantine Cisterns on Geronisos Island. In: Reports of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus , 2002.
  • Terracotta Oil Lamps from Geronisos and their Contexts. In: Reports of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus , 2002. ( Terracotta Oil Lamps )
  • The Chalcolithic Occupation of Geronisos Island. In: Reports of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus , 2004.
  • Excavations on Geronisos Island: Second Report, the Central South Complex, In: Reports of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus , 2005.
  • Stamp-Seals from Geronisos and their Contexts. In: Reports of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus , 2006. ( Stamp Seals )
  • The Legacy of Classical Athens in Post 9/11 New York. In: The Future of New York: An International Perspective , ed. E. Posner, Properties: The Review of the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute (2006) 204-213.
  • Hybridity and Identity on Late Ptolemaic Yeronisos. In: Actes du Colloque “Chypre à l'époque hellénistique et impériale: Recherches récentes et nouvelles découvertes,” Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre et Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Nanterre - Paris 25–26. September 2009, ed. by A.-M. Guimier sorbets and D. Michaelidès, Center d'Etudes Chypriotes Cahier 39 (2009) 69-88. ( Hybridity and Identity on Late Ptolemaic Yeronisos )
  • Twilight of the Ptolemies: Egyptian Presence on late Hellenistic Yeronisos. In: Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity , Proceedings of the International Conference, Nicosia, April 3-6, 2003, D. Michaelides, V. Kassianidou, RS Merrilies (eds.), Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute and the University of Cyprus, Archaeological Research Unit (Oxford 2009) 194-209. ( Twilight of the Ptolemies )
  • Yeronisos: Twenty Years on Cleopatra's Isle. In: Explorers Club Journal , December 2010, 18-25.
  • The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West's Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It. 2014. ISBN 978-0307593382

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Joan Breton Connelly Profile at NYU Joan Breton Connelly . In: NYU Department of Classics Faculty . New York University. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
  2. ^ New York University Department of Art History Staff List . Retrieved August 11, 2014.
  3. ^ "Keepers of the Faith," by Steve Coates, New York Times , July 1, 2007. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  4. ^ A b "The Women and the Gods" by Peter Green, The New York Review of Books , June 28, 2007. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ Portrait of a Priestess Profile on the Princeton University Press website . Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  6. ^ "100 Notable Books of the Year 2007" on The New York Times website . Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  7. ↑ James R. Wiseman Book Award 2009 on the Archaeological Institute of America website. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  8. ^ "New Analysis of the Parthenon's Frieze Finds It Depicts a Horrifying Legend" by John Noble Wilford, New York Times , July 4, 1995. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  9. ↑ Description of the book The Parthenon Enigma on the Bryn Mawr College website. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
  10. ^ The Latest Scheme for the Parthenon in New York Book Review. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  11. ^ Personnel list of the Yeronisos Island Expedition. Retrieved August 11, 2014
  12. ↑ Representation of the connection to the ecology of the island on the website of the excavations on Yeronisos. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  13. ^ Connelly and Porphyry's proposal on the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition website. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  14. ↑ Start the Week February 26, 2007, Episode Information
  15. ↑ List ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College 2009-2010. Accessed August 12, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brynmawr.edu
  16. ↑ List ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College 2011 to 2012. Accessed August 12, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brynmawr.edu
  17. ↑ Information on Joan Connelly on the AIA website. Retrieved August 11, 2014.

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DATE OF BIRTH 1954