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(Harriett) Anne Weis
219 Carnegie Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15208
Telephone: Office:
Home - 412-731-4618 104 Frick Fine Arts Bldg.
Office - 412-648-2415 Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Fax - 412-648-2792 e-mail - weis+@pitt.edu
Web CV: http://www.pitt.edu/~arthome/faculty/weis.html
Education:
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
1971-1976: Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology.
Dissertation: The Hanging Marsyas: the Origin and History of a Statue
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
1966-1971: B.A., M.A. in Art History and Archaeology.
M.A. Thesis: The Tripartite Transept: Origin and Evolution
Summer Programs
• American Academy, Rome, Italy (1974), • Vergilian Society Summer Program in Cumae
(1974), • American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece (1970)
Excavation
• Bryn Mawr College excavation at Poggio Civitate, Italy (Director: K.M. Phillips Jr, 1973.), •
University of Missouri excavation at Phlious, Greece (Director: William Biers, 1970, 1972)
Experience:
University Teaching
1976-1984: Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Joint
appointment in Departments of Fine Arts and Classics
1984: Promoted to tenured Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Classics
1998: Change in Departmental name, from Department of Fine Arts to
Henry C. Frick Department of the History of Art and Architecture
1984/1998-present: Associate Professor, Henry C. Frick Department of the
History of Art and Architecture
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Departmental Administration
1981-1989: Graduate Student Advisor, Department of Fine Arts
1992-1998: Chair, Department of Fine Arts
Fall 1999: Acting Director, Architectural Studies Program
Other Teaching: Short Courses and Programs
• Main Line School Night, Devon, PA: Survey of Roman Art and Archaeology (1976)
• Pitt Informal Programs, University of Pittsburgh: Pompeii A.D. 79 (1978)
• Assistant Director, Vergilian Society, Summer Program in Campania (Directors: Prof. Harry
Rutledge, University of Tennessee (1979); Prof. Peter Bursian, Duke University (1980)
Consultation
• Evaluator/Reviewer: Council of Graduate Schools in the U.S. (1988), The Getty Grant Program
(1994)
• Reviewer, University Presses: University of Chicago Press (1988); University of Wisconsin Press
(1991)
• Media Production Consultant:
Journey of Faith: Orthodox Ritual in a Serbian/American Community (Video produced by the
Department of Religious Studies and the University Center for Instructional Resources, University
of Pittsburgh, 1992)
Virtual Pompeii (Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, with grant from the
Archaeological Institute of America and Silicon Graphics, 1995)
Other University Experience
Councils and Committees (University of Pittsburgh, 1977-present): Faculty
Assembly (1977-78); University Review Board (1978-79; Student Affairs Committee (1978-79);
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Council (1982-85); Tenure Council (1985-87); Nominating Committee
(1988); College of General Studies Council (1988-1992); Council of the University Senate (1989-91);
Committee for the Evaluation of Production Proposals for Instructional Video, UCIR (Chair, 1989-
98); University Art Committee (1993-98); University Search Committee, Dean of the College of
General Studies (1993, search re-opened 1995-96); University Council on Graduate Studies (1993-
96; Chair, Subcommittee on Distance Learning 1994-95); Member, West European Studies Advisory
Committee (1995-1996); University Taskforce on Distance Learning (1995-96); Faculty Retirement
Policy Review Committee (1995); Senate Community Relations Committee (liaison with Oakland
Business and Civic Association, 1997-98); CIDDE Advisory Committee (1996-2006); CIDDE
Classroom Technology Advisory Committee (1998-2006).
Other: Bryn Mawr College: Warden (Head Resident in Women's Dormitory, 1971-75),
Archaeological Institute of America: Secretary, Local Chapter (1981 –83), Secretary, Hampton Hall
Condominium Association Board of Officers (1990 –92)
Publications:
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Book
The Hanging Marsyas Statue: Roman Innovations in a Hellenistic Sculptural
Tradition (Rome, G. Bretschneider, 1992)
Elite display in early Hellenistic Etruria (working title, under contract)
Articles
• "The Marsyas of Myron: Old Problems and New Evidence," AJA 83 (1979) 214-19
• "Marsyas in Worcester: Observations on a Red and a White" Worcester Art
Museum Journal 2 (1978-79) 29-41
• "The Motif of the Adligatus and Tree: A Study in the Sources of Pre- Roman
Iconography" AJA 86 (1982) 21-38
• "The Albani Marsyas: the Vicissitudes of a Roman Statue in a (later) Roman
Collection" (1994. Accepted 1980 for Horizons and Styles; Studies in Early Art and
Archaeology)
• "Material Limitations and Special Carving Effects in the Copying of a Hellenistic
Statuary Type" in Classical Marble; Geochemistry, Technology, Trade, N. Herz and M.
Waelkens, eds. (Kluwer 1988) 219 – 228
• “Pasquino and Sperlonga: Menelaos and Patroklos or Aeneas and Lausus (Aen.
10.791-.832)?‖ Stephanos. Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
(Philadelphia 1998) 255-86
• ―Odysseus at Sperlonga: Hellenistic Hero or Roman Heroic Foil?‖ in N. T. de
Grummond ed., From Pergamum to Sperlonga: Sculpture in Context (Berkeley, CA,
2000) 111-65
• ―Gaius Verres and the Roman Art Market: Consumption and Connoisseurship
in Late Republican Rome,‖ in A. Haltenhoff, A. Heil, F.-H. Mutschler eds., „O
tempora, O mores”. Römische Werte und römische Literatur in den letzten Jahrzehnten
der Republik (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Munich and Leipzig 2003) 355-400
• ―Liberalitas and Lucrum in Republican City Planning: Plautus (Curc. 466-83) and
L. Betilienus Vaarus‖ in A. Haltenhoff, A. Heil, F.H. Mutschler eds., Römische Werte
als Gegenstand altertumswissenschaftlicher Forschung (Munich and Leipzig, K.G. Saur,
2005) 225-58
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• Weis, A., Jacobson, J., Darnell, M. (2010) The Virtual Theater District of
Pompeii. Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA), Granada, Spain, April,
2010. Online publication (6/15/10):
http://www.publicvr.org/IndexDownloads/WeisCAA2010.pdf
• ―Gender Symmetry: Pliny Epist. 6.32, Women’s Processions, and Roman Life
Choices‖ in Noctes Sinenses: Festschrift für Fritz-Heiner Mutschler zum 65.
Geburtstag, edited by A. Heil, M. Korn, and J. Sauer (Heidelberg,
Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011)
• ―The public face of girlhood at 4th-3rd cen. BCE Lavinium‖ (conference
proceedings to appear in the series Frauen—Forschung—Archäologie
(http://www.femarc.de/hgg/index.html); submitted 3/11)
Contributions
* "Nikopolis (in Epeiros)" in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Princeton, NJ, 1976) 625-
626
* Varia, in Aspects of Ancient Art: Catalogue of an Exhibition, Allentown Museum, Sept. - Dec. 1979
(funded by grants from NEH and the State of Pennsylvania)
* Lexikon Iconographicum Mythologicae Classicae,:
• "Marsyas" VI.1 (1992) 366-378
• "Olympos I" VII.1 (1994) 38-45
• "Olympos II" VII.1 (1994) 45
* Varia, in City Secrets: Rome (New York 2000)
Book Reviews and Review Articles (•)
Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus (J.B. Connelly), CW 83.3 (1990) 240
Hellenistic Sculpture I: The Styles of ca. 331-200 B.C. (B.S. Ridgway), CW 85.2 (1991) 122
Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens (P. Millett), CW 86.3 (1992) 250-251
The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 (J.R. Clarke), CW 87.4 (1994) 327-328
Markets and Fairs in Roman Italy (J.M. Frayn), CW 88.3 (1995) 232
Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece: A Preliminary Study (G.P.R. Métraux),
CW 90.4 (1997) 299
Rediscovering Antiquity: Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae (C.
Parslow), CW 91.5 (1998) 431-32
• "Sperlonga and Hellenistic Sculpture," (review, N. Himmelmann, Die homerischen Gruppen und
ihre Bildquellen ) JRA 11 (1998) 412-20
Les pierres gravés antiques représentant le rapt du Palladion (J.-M. Moret), AJA 104 (2000) 401-402.
The Origins of Roman Historical Commemoration in the Visual Arts (P. Holliday) New England Classical
Journal (May 2004)
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Scholarly Lectures:
• "The Hanging Marsyas Statue" (Bryn Mawr College and the University of
Pittsburgh, 1975)
Other versions of this lecture were presented at the College of the Holy
Cross, Worcester, MA, (1978) and the Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of
America, Vancouver, Canada, (1978)
• "The Ficoroni Cista and Amykos religatus" (Annual Meeting, Archaeological
Institute of America, Chicago, IL, 1977)
• "Material Limitations and Special Carving Effects in the Copying of a Hellenistic
Statuary type" (NATO-sponsored Advanced Research Workshop on Marble in
Ancient Greece and Rome, Il Ciocco, Italy, 1988)
• "An Architectural Cinerary Urn in Florence and the Late Republican Basilica"
(Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, MA, 1989)
Other versions of this paper were presented at Oberlin College and the
University of Akron.
• "Architecture and Opportunity in Late Republican Etruria" (University of
Pittsburgh, 1990)
• ―Hellenization and Romanization in one architectural Case-Study: the Roman
Republican Basilica‖ (Symposium on Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Brock
University, St. Catherines, Canada, 1994)
• ―Menelaos and Patroklos or Aeneas and Lausus (Aen. 10.791-.832)? A New
Reading of the Pasquino Group and of Sperlonga‖ (Conference, Vergil‟s Aeneid.
Augustan Epic and Political Context, University of Pittsburgh, 1995).
Other versions of this paper were presented at: the University of Akron
(1995), Bryn Mawr College (1996), and the 4th Annual Langford Conference,
"Pergamon and Sperlonga", The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (1997)
• ―Orient or Occident? Innovation and Change in Roman Republican
Architecture,‖ (Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego,
CA, 2001)
• ―Verres’ Roman Values: Acquisition and Public Image in Late Republican
Rome‖ Technische Universität Dresden (November 2001), and University of
Pittsburgh (Feb. 2002)
• ―Technical Innovation and Domestic Display in Late Republican Rome‖, Mid-
Atlantic Popular Culture Conference (Nov. 2003)
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• “Salve pietas, Salve lucru[m]. Planning for Prosperity in ancient Pompeii ” Römische
Werte als Gegenstand altertumswissenschaftlicher Forschung. Tagung der Teilprojekte
A1 and V im Sonderforschungsbereich 537 “Institutionalität und Geschichtlichkeit”, 23-25
April, 2004,Technische Universität Dresden
• Weis, A., Jacobson, J., Darnell, M. (2010) The Virtual Theater District of Pompeii.
Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA), Granada, Spain, April, 2010.
• Jacobson, J., Weis, A., Twigg, A., Tucker, S. (2010) CuratorVM, An Open Source
Template for Virtual Museums. Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA), Granada,
Spain, April, 2010.
• “The Lavinium Girls as “matrons-to-be”: conventions of feminine commemoration in
Republican Italy”. In Girls in Antiquity, a conference organized by FemArc and
sponsored by the German Archaeological Institute (Berlin), 7-10 October, 2010.
• “The exódos: elite women and civic space in Greece and Rome.” In Urban Dreams and
Realities: an Interdisciplinary Conference on the City in Ancient Cultures, to be held 21-
22 Oct. 2011 at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).
Invited Public Lectures (selected titles):
• "The Augustan building Program and the Problem of Classical Greek Style in Augustan Art"
(College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 1978)
• "Athens and Thessaloniki: Two Roman Cities in Greece" (Greek Room Committee of the
University of Pittsburgh, 1979)
• "Marsyas: Old and New" (American Academy in Rome, 1980)
• "Women in Antiquity: The Perils of Emancipation" (Women's Alliance, Carnegie-Mellon
University, 1982)
• ―The Visual Arts as a Vehicle for Teaching Theme and Style" (Pennsylvania Classical Association,
Harrisburg, PA, 1983)
• "The Plight of a Pitiful Satyr: A Case for Continuity and Development in Hellenistic Sculpture of
the Roman Period" (University of Pittsburgh and Brown University, Providence, RI, 1985)
• "The 'Red' Marsyas and the Sullan Origins of the Marsyas Statue" (Brown University, Providence,
RI, 1985)
• "A Cinerary Urn from Chiusi and the Civic Architecture of Romanized Etruria" (University of
Akron and Oberlin College, Akron/Oberlin, OH, 1988)
• "The Pantheon: A Triumph of Roman Concrete Construction" (Session on Ancient Technology,
Ohio Classical Conference, Youngstown, OH, 1992)
• "The Greek Miracle: Greek Sculpture, Greek Democracy, and the recent Exhibition at the
National Gallery, Washington D.C." (The Women's Committee of The Carnegie, Pittsburgh, PA,
1993)
• "Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor" (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993)
• "Turkey's Southern Shore" (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997)
• "Dining with the Gods in Greece and the Hellenistic World" (Greek Room Committee,
University of Pittsburgh, 1998)
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• ―Sepphoris in Palestine and Civic Strategy in the Roman East: Planning for Prosperity under the
Empire‖ (University of Pittsburgh, 1998)
• “Mr. Carnegie’s Casts: the cast collection of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh” (different
versions presented at the Carnegie and at the University of Pittsburgh, Fall, Winter 2005-2006)
• “Encounters with the Divine in Greece and the Hellenistic World”, University of Pittsburgh at
Greensburg, La Cultura lecture series (January 2006)
Other Scholarly Activities
Organized Panel, Gendered Space in the Greek City (Annual Meeting,
Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, CA, January 2001)
Grants, Fellowships, Honors:
Field Scholarship to attend the American School of Classical Studies in Athens
(ASCS Summer School Committee, 1970)
Ford Traineeship Grant for excavation at Phlious, Greece (Dept. of Art and
Archaeology, University of Missouri, 1970, 1972)
Rome Prize Fellow, American Academy in Rome (Grants from NEH and the
American Academy in Rome, 1979-1980)
Parker Visiting Scholar, Center for Old World Archaeology and Art, Brown
University, Providence, RI (1985)
John G. Bowman Faculty Grant (Intercultural Exchange Student Endowment
Fund, University of Pittsburgh, 1987)
Columbia University Symposium and Seminar on Macedonian History, Culture,
Art (1989)
(Updated April 2011)
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