Joanne Elizabeth Thompson

Education

Ph.D. in the History of Art, Yale University, 2005.

M.Phil. in the History of Art, Yale University, 1993.

M.A. in the History of Art, Yale University, 1989.

B.A. in the History of Art and Romance Languages, Bowdoin College, 1988.

Summa cum laude                                     Minor in Classical Archaeology

Phi Beta Kappa

School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome, Summer 1990.

Summer Session, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992.

Dissertation

“Images of Vesta and the Vestal Virgins in Roman State Religion and Imperial Policy of the First and Second Centuries A.D.”  Diana E.E. Kleiner, advisor.

Selected Honors

Alumni Fund Travel and Research Grants, History of Art, Yale University, 1997/1995.

Archaeological Institute of America Graduate Student Annual Meeting Travel Award, 1997.

John F. Enders Fellowship (for dissertation research), Yale University, 1995.

Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (study in Rome, Italy), Yale University, 1995.

Fulbright-Hays Scholarship (study in Rome, Italy), 1993-1994.

Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 1993-1994.

Oral Qualifying Examination passed with Distinction, Yale University, 1993.

Yale University Fellowship, Yale University, 1988-1993.

Art History Junior-Year/Senior-Year Prizes, Bowdoin College, 1987/1988.

James Bowdoin Scholar with High Honors, Bowdoin College, 1985-1988.

Teaching Experience

Instructor

Visiting Instructor, Southern Connecticut State University, 1998-present:

· Art 104:  Introduction to Western Art I, Summer 1998, Spring 2001, Summer 2002, Summer 2003, Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Spring 2006, Summer 2006.

· Art 105:  Introduction to Western Art II, Fall 2004.

· Art 298:  Roman Art, Spring 2002.

               • Art 305:  History of Ancient Art, Fall 2005.

Visiting Instructor, University of Connecticut-Storrs, Fall 2002:

· Art History 246:  Roman Art.

Visiting Instructor, University of Connecticut-Stamford, 2001-2003:

· Art History 137:  Introduction to Art History I, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Summer 2002, Fall 2003, Summer 2003.

· Art History 138:  Introduction to Art History II, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Summer 2003.

Visiting Instructor, Trinity College, Fall 1998:

· Classical Civilization 213:  Etruscan Art and Archaeology.

               • Classical Civilization 214:  Greek and Roman Architecture.

Acting Instructor, Yale University, 1996-1997:

· Classical Civilization 121/History of Art 173:  The Age of Augustus

                            (with J.F. Matthews and G.W. Williams), Fall 1997.

· History of Art/Archaeology 172:  Roman Art, Spring 1996, Fall 1996.

Assistant

Teaching Assistant, Southern Connecticut State University, Spring 2005:

               •Art 301:  Italian Renaissance Art (D. Levine).

Teaching Assistant, Yale University, 1989-2002:

· History of Art 112:  Introduction to the History of Art:  Prehistory to the Renaissance (V. Scully), Fall 1989, Fall 1992, Fall 2002.

·    History of Art 115:  History of Western Art:  Renaissance to the Present

      (C.J. Anderson and J. Weinberg), Spring 1997; taught graduate section.

· History of Art 166:  The Art of Classical Greece (J.J. Pollitt), Fall 1992, Fall 1996.

· History of Art 168:  Hellenistic Art (J.J. Pollitt), Spring 1993.

· History of Art 249:  Gods, Heroes, and Mortals:  Greek Art and Myth

             (J.M. Barringer), Fall 2002.

· History of Art 292:  Revolution, Gender, and Modernity:  French Art from David to Courbet (L. Nochlin), Fall 1991.

· Classical Civilization 120:  Periclean Athens (C.J. Herington, D. Kagan, and R.F. Rhodes), Spring 1992.

Teaching Assistant, Bowdoin College, Fall 1987:

· Art 101:  Introduction to Western Art (L.J. Docherty).

Presentations and Papers

“Gladiator in Historical Perspective.”  Introductory and Concluding Remarks, Cinéma du Monde Film Series, Southern Connecticut State University, April 2006.

“Politics and Priestesses:  The Vestal Virgins in Roman Imperial Art.”  Paper delivered at Williams College, Dept. of Art, March 2006.

“The Image of the Vestal Virgin in Augustan Art.”  Paper delivered at Yale University, Dept. of the History of Art Work-in-Progress Seminar, February 2003.

“Nineteenth-century American Sculptors in Italy.”  Yale University Art Gallery, April 2002.

“Mummies and Mysteries in Roman Egypt.”  Yale University Art Gallery, September 2001.

“Art and Afterlife in Ancient Palmyra.”  Yale University Art Gallery, Spring 2001.

“‘All That Glitters:’  Gems and Jewelry from the Ancient Mediterranean.”  Yale University Art Gallery, May 2000.

“The Image of the Vestal Virgin in Roman Art and Politics.”  Paper delivered at Southern Connecticut State University, Dept. of Art, April 2000.

“Ancient Mediterranean Connections.”  Yale University Art Gallery, April 1999.

“Some Observations on the Vestal Virgins in Roman Art.”  Paper delivered at Yale University, Dept. of Classics Seminar in Roman History and Culture, April 1999.

“Tombs and Treasures: Etruscan Archaeology in the Nineteenth Century.”  Paper delivered at the Archaeological Institute of America, Hartford Society, December 1998.

“Etruscan Art.”  Yale University Art Gallery, November 1998.

“Excavation and Empire:  Archaeology in Rome in the 1930s.”  Paper delivered at

               The Yale Club of New York City, March 1998.

“The Vestal Virgins in Roman Art and Politics:  The Case of the Cancelleria Reliefs.” Paper delivered at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, December 1997.

“Claudia, Cybele, Venus, and Vesta: Women and Religion in Roman Art.”  Paper delivered at Middlebury College, Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture, October 1996.

“Religion and Daily Life:  Women in Greek and Roman Art.”  Yale University Art Gallery,

               March 1993.

Publications and Other Writings

“Roman Tragic Mask,” and “Lion’s Head Spout.”  Catalogue entries in Handbook of the Classical Collection, Snite Museum of Art.  Edited by Robin F. Rhodes.  Notre Dame:  Snite Museum of Art, 2006 (forthcoming).

Labels, “Myer Myers:  Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York.”  Traveling exhibition organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, 2001.

“Portrait of a Roman Matron as Cybele,” and “Relief Fragment with a Veiled Woman.”  Catalogue entries in I, Claudia:  Women in Ancient Rome.  Edited by Diana E.E. Kleiner and Susan B. Matheson.  New Haven:  Yale University Art Gallery, 1996.

Labels and Curatorial Text (for 140 objects), “I, Claudia:  Women in Ancient Rome.”  Traveling exhibition of Roman art organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, 1996.

“Frank Weston Benson,” “Mary Cassatt,” “Charles Courtney Curran,” Frederick Childe Hassam,” “Charles Webster Hawthorne,” and “Bessie Potter Vonnoh.”  Catalogue entries in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism:  The Collector’s Passion.  By Carole Gold Calo et al.  Portland, Maine:  Portland Museum of Art, 1991.

Articles in Preparation

“Politics and Priestesses:  The Vestal Virgins on the Ara Pacis Augustae”

“The Image of Vesta as Patron Goddess of Roman Bakers”

Museum Experience

Museum Assistant, American Decorative Arts/Garvan Furniture Study, Yale University Art Gallery, February 2000-June 2003.

Administrative Assistant, Registrar’s Office, Yale University Art Gallery, February 1998-February 2000.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Ancient Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Summer 1996/1993.

Rose Herrick Jackson Fellow, American Arts Office, Yale University Art Gallery, 1989-1990.

Exhibition Research Fellow, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Summer 1989.

Intern, National Gallery of Art (Modern Painting), Summer 1998.

Intern, National Museum of American Art (Publications), Smithsonian Institution, Summer 1987.

Visual Resources Experience

Curator, Art Dept. Visual Resources Collection, Southern Connecticut State University, Fall 2003-present.

Classics Dept. Slide Collection, Yale University:              

· Acting Curator, Fall 1997-Spring 1998.

· Assistant, Spring 2003, Fall 1995-Spring 1997.

Professional Memberships

American Association of University Professors 

Archaeological Institute of America

College Art Association

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

Visual Resources Association