ANNE P. CHAPIN
CURRICULUM VITAE
 
Division of Fine Arts 400 North Broad Street
Brevard College Brevard, NC 28712

 

EDUCATION

1995 

Ph.D.,  Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
Major Field: Greek Art.  Minor Field: Roman Art.  Unrelated Minor Field: Renaissance Art.  Dissertation: “Landscape and Space in Aegean Bronze Age Art.”

1990 

American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Summer Session II (Hill Scholar Award).

1988  

 M.A.,  Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
 Thesis: “Perspective in Minoan Pictorial Art.” directed by Sara A. Immerwahr.

1983 

A.B.,  Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC. Magna cum Laude.
Class Honors 1982, 1983; Dean's List 1981, 1982, 1983.
Participated in Oxford Summer Program for A.B. Duke Scholars, 1982.
EMPLOYMENT  
Brevard College, Brevard, NC, 1998-present.

Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology

Courses taught:

  • AH 201 Art History I

  • AH 202 Art History II

  • AH 290 Survey of Non-Western Art

  • AH 321 Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt.

  • AH 322 Art and Archaeology of the Greek Bronze Age.

  • AH 323 Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece.

  • AH 324 Art and Archaeology of Ancient Italy and the Roman Empire

  • AH 350 Survey of Modern Art

  • AH 353 Seminar in Modern Art: Issues in Contemporary Art

  • AH 390 Special Topics in Art History: Survey of Medieval Art

  • AH 390 Special Topics in Art History: Italian Renaissance Art

  • AH 490 Special Topics in Art History. Questions of Authenticity: Fakes and Forgeries in Art

  • ART 490. Special Topics in Art. The Ancient Olympics and the History of Athletics.

Team-Taught Courses:

  •  HUM 280 The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

  •  GEOL 270 Field Studies in Geology: South Italy and Sicily   

Additional Teaching Responsibilities:

  • Directed independent studies in the History of Photography, 20th Century Art, and Introduction to Archaeology, Archaeological Theory.

  • Directed senior projects in History major (emphasis in Art History) and Integrated Studies

  • Faculty leader in the Brevard College’s First Year Forum

Brevard College/Emory University Summer Study Program in Greece and Turkey, Summer 1998.
     Assistant Professor and Co-Leader.

Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1992-1997.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Part-time (1996-1997)

Lecturer (1992-1995)
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.  Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 1997.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987-1992.  Lecturer and teaching assistant.
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

2004 Appalachian College Association John B. Stephenson Fellowship, for summer 2004..

2003 Appalachian College Association Travel Grant, 2003

2003 US News & World Report national ranking Brevard College #2 in the nation for First Year Experience.
2001-2002 Brevard College SGA/ODK Leadership Award, Outstanding Faculty Member, Fine Arts Division, Honorable Mention 
First Year Forum Summer Stipend, 2001, 2002.
Margaret J. and Henry C. Sprinkle Award for Faculty Development, Brevard College, 2000-2001
NEH Summer Seminar, “Roman Egypt,” led by Prof. Roger Bagnall, Columbia University, 1999.
Margaret J. and Henry C. Sprinkle Award for Faculty Development, Brevard College, 1998-1999.
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, publication grant, 1997.
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship for Dissertation Research, 1992-93.
Research Fellowship, UNC Department of Art, Fall 1991.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Hill Scholar Award, Summer 1990.
Pollard Award (research), UNC Department of Art,  Spring 1990.
W.N. Reynolds Fellowship, UNC, 1985-86.

Research Travel Grants to Greece, UNC Department of Art, Summers 1987 and 1991.

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

Editor of Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr, Hesperia Supplement 33 (American School of Classical Studies), in press: publication date, Fall 2003.  Sole editor of this collection of 20 articles contributed by Ian Begg, Edwin L. Brown, Anne Chapin, Nancy De Grummond, Charles Gates, Richard Gergel, Geraldine Gesell, Halford Haskell, Carol Mattusch, Sarah Morris, Suzanne Murray, Ann Nicgorski, John Papadopoulos, Barbara N. Porter, Paul Rehak, Maria C. Shaw, and Mary Sturgeon, Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Nancy Thomas, Patrick Thomas, and Rhys Townsend.  Length: 466 pages.

Articles

In preparation: “Boys Will Be Boys: Youth and Gender Identity in the Theran Frescoes,” for submission to Aegean Archaeology.

 In preparation: Co-author with Maria Shaw, University of Toronto, "Unpublished Fresco Fragments from the Crocus Panel of the House of the Frescoes at Knossos,” for submission to the Annual of the British School at Athens.

“A Vision of Nature, the Creation of Culture: Thoughts on Minoan and Cycladic Landscape Painting,” in Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr, ed., Anne Chapin (in press).

"A Reexamination of the Fresco with Multi-Colored Rocks and Olive Branches from the Northwest Slope Plaster Dump at Pylos," in Aegean Wall Painting. Studies in Honour of Mark A. S. Cameron, ed., Lyvia Morgan (Bristol, in press).

  “Maidenhood and Marriage: The Reproductive Lives of the Girls and Women from Xeste 3, Thera,” Aegean Archaeology 4 (1997-2001), pp. 1-19. 

“A Re-Examination Of the Floral Fresco from the Unexplored Mansion at Knossos," Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 92, 1997, pp. 1-24.
 

ONGOING RESEARCH 

Book  

Landscape Art of the Aegean Bronze Age.  A critical study of Aegean Bronze Age landscape art that addresses both the development of the genre and its significance within the context of Late Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean culture.

Article

 "A New Reconstruction of the Monkeys and Blue Birds Fresco from the House of the Frescoes at Knossos," for submission to the Annual of the British School at Athens.

 

PUBLIC LECTURES AND PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

“Boys Will Be Boys: Youth and Gender Identity in Theran Frescoes,” at the international conference at Dartmouth College entitled, Constructions of Childhood in the Ancient World, November 3, 2003.

 “Art and Nature: Minoan Greece,” at the Second Tuesday Presentations, First United Methodist Church, Brevard, NC, October 14, 2003.

“Mediterranean Programs at a Small Liberal Arts College: Success and Failure,” at the Appalachian College Association Internationalization Summit, in Kingsport, TN, March 31, 2003.

“Divinity in Nature?  Minoan Representations of the Greek Landscape,” at the Western Carolina Society of the Archeaological Institute of America, delivered at the University of North Carolina – Asheville, in Asheville, NC, November 21, 2002.

“Aegean Landscape Painting as a Vehicle of Identity,” in the colloquium “Vehicles of Identity, Values of Exchange: Art, Commerce and Ideology in the Aegean Bronze Age,” at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, PA, January 4, 2002.

“Power, Privilege, and Landscape Art in Minoan Society,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, CA, January 5, 2001.

“Power, Privilege, and Landscape Art in Minoan Society,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, January 6, 2001.

“Minoan Ethnicity and Aegean Landscape Painting,” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, November 18, 2000.

“Life, Death, and Murder (?) in Ancient Egypt,” Pastimes History Club, Brevard College, Brevard, NC, Oct. 27, 1999.

“Early Religions and Ancient Landscapes in Bronze Age Greece,” Transylvania County Public Library, Brevard, NC, May 18, 1999.

“Aegean Painting in the Bronze Age. A Colloquium in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr. Co-chair (with Dr. Paul Rehak, Duke University), 1998 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Washington D.C., Dec. 30, 1998.

"Recent Discoveries in Bronze Age Archaeology," to the joint meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Atlanta Society, and the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society, January 1997.

"Minoan Origins of Classical Greek Gods?" Hellenic Study Group, Atlanta, September 1996.

 "The Origin of the Greeks," Hellenic Study Group, Atlanta, September 1995.

"The Aegean World Through Minoan Eyes: Minoan Landscape and the Representation of Bronze Age Crete,"  Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, April 2-3, 1993.

 "The Depiction of Space in Minoan Art," Hellenic Study Group of Atlanta, February 1992.

"The Sanctuary Rhyton from Kato Zakros and the Representation of Space in Aegean Art of the Bronze Age," Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, December 28, 1991.

 

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

Excavation at the Warren Wilson site, Swannanoa, NC, Summer 2000. Field Director: Dr. David Moore.

Excavation in the Agora, Athens, conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Summer 1991. Field Director: Dr. T. Leslie Shear, Jr.

Research Assistant, UNC Art Department, Fall 1990.

Research Assistant, Slides and Photographs, Summer 1990 and fiscal year, 1986-1987.

Enslow Publishers, Inc., Hillside, NJ, 1983-1985.  Managed artistic production for publisher of young-adult, non-fiction books.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member: Archaeological Institute of America, 1990-present; founding member and vice president of the Western Carolina Society of the Archaeological Institute of America; American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1993-present; College Art Association, 1998-present, American Schools of Oriental Research, 2000-present; past Secretary/Program Chairman of the Atlanta Society of the Archaeological Institute of America; past member of the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society; past member of the Atlanta Ancient Americas Society.


 

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