Staff Profile:Professor Amy Smith

Name:

Professor Amy Smith

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

Professor and Curator, Ure Museum.

Office Hours: by appointment (on leave Autumn 2013)

Professor Smith is a classical archaeologist, with a primary interest in iconography and its many manifestations, especially in politics and religion.

Areas of Interest:

Greek and Roman art and archaeology, especially iconography and vase painting; gender, religion, and politics in ancient Greece; antiquities museums, online or offline.

Research groups / Centres:

Professor Smith is a research associate of the Beazley Archive, University of Oxford (see http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk) and an editor of Digital Classicist (see http://www.digitalclassicist.org). She created (with Brian Fuchs) VLMA (Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives) (sponsored by JISC in 2004-2005).

Professor Smith is also a member of the following research groups:

• Ancient Religions
• The Ancient Material World

Key Facts:

Professor Smith received her degrees from Yale (PhD, MPhil, MA) and Dartmouth (BA), and was also educated at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the American Academy in Rome, and the American Numismatic Society, and studied German at the Herder Institute, Leipzig. Before her appointment at Reading she lectured at Tufts University, Boston College, and the Massachusetts College of Art. She has also worked as an editor (Perseus Project; American Journal of Archaeology) and as curatorial assistant at the Yale University Art Gallery. She has excavated at the American School of Classical Studies' excavations in Greece (Athens' Agora and Corinth) and Spain (Pollentia, Alcudia, Majorca).

Publications:

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Number of items: 35.

2017

• Smith, A. (2017) Winckelmann, Greek masterpieces, and architectural sculpture. Prolegomena to a history of classical archaeology in museums. Studies in Classical Archaeology, 1. (In Press)

2016

• Smith, A. C. (2016) Looking inside on the outside of a pot. In: Glazebrook, A. and Tsakirgis, B. (eds.) Houses of Ill-Repute: The Archaeology of Houses, Taverns and Brothels. University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 143-168. ISBN 9780812247565

2015

• Smith, A. (2015) Introduction. In: Pickup, S., Bergeron, M. and Webb, J. (eds.) Cypriote Antiquities in Reading. The Ure Museum at the University of Reading and the Reading Museum (Reading Borough Council). Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities, 30. Astrom, Uppsala, vii. ISBN 9789170812019

2014

• Smith, A. and Nevin, S. (2014) Using animation for successful engagement, promotion and learning. In: Jandl, S. .S. and Gold, M. S. (eds.) Advancing Engagement: A Handbook for Academic Museums. Advancing Engagement , 3. Museumsetc, pp. 346-375. ISBN 9781910144411
• Smith, A. C. (2014) Variation among Attic fine wares: the case of the Pan Painter's pelikai. In: Kotsonas, A. (ed.) Understanding Standardization and Variation in Mediterranean Ceramics: Mid 2nd to Late 1st Millenium BC. BABESCH Supplement (25). Peeters Publishers, pp. 99-113. ISBN 9789042930919

2012

• Smith, A. C. (2012) Aidos. In: Bagnall, R., Brodersen, K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley, London. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17020
• Smith, A. C. (2012) Aletheia. In: Bagnall, R., Brodersen , K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley, London. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17023
• Smith, A. C. (2012) Ananke. In: Bagnall, R., Brodersen, K., Champion , C., Erskine , A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. WIley, London. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17034
• Smith, A. C. (2012) Eros/Cupid. In: Bagnall, R., Brodersen , K., Champion , C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley, London. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17145
• Smith, A. C. (2012) Personification: not just a symbolic mode. In: Smith, T. J. and Plantzos, D. (eds.) A Companion to Greek Art. Companions to the Ancient World. Wiley, London. ISBN 9781405186049
• Smith, A. C. (2012) Graces. In: Bagnall, R., Brodersen, K., Champion , C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley, London. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17178
• Smith, A. C. (2012) Homonoia. In: Bagnall, R., Brodersen , K., Champion , C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley, London. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17203
• Smith, A. C. (2012) Marriage in the Greek world. In: Hermary, A. and Jaeger, B. (eds.) Stages and Circumstances of Life: Work, Hunting, Travel. Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (6). Getty, Los Angeles, pp. 83-94. ISBN 9781606060735
• Smith, A. C. (2012) Muses. In: Bagnall, R., Brodersen, K., Champion , C., Erskine , A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley, London. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17281
• Smith, A. C. (2012) Personifications. In: Bagnall, R., Brodersen , K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. WIley, London. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17331
• Smith, A. C. (2012) Tyche. In: Bagnall, R., Brodersen, K., Champion , C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley, London. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17462

2011

• Smith, A. C. (2011) Polis and personification in Classical Athenian art. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 19. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 9789004194175
• Smith, A. (2011) Introduction. In: Smith, A. and Bergeron, M. (eds.) The gods of small things. Pallas Revue d'Etudes Antiques (86). Presses Universitaires du Mirail, Toulouse, pp. 11-14. ISBN 9782810701810
• Smith, A. and Bergeron, M., eds. (2011) The gods of small things. Pallas Revue d'Etudes Antiques, 86. Presses Universitaires du Mirail, Toulouse, pp344. ISBN 9782810701810

2010

• Smith, A. C. and Pickup, S., eds. (2010) Brill's Companion to Aphrodite. Brill's Companions in Classical Studies. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 9789004180031
• Smith, A. C. and Pickup, S. (2010) Budding Aphrodite: into the future. In: Smith, A. C. and Pickup, S. (eds.) Brill's companion to Aphrodite. Brill, Leiden, pp. 17-26.

2009

• Smith, A. C. (2009) Personifications in art. In: Gagarin, M. (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 225-230. ISBN 9780195170726
• Smith, A. C. (2009) Theoria. Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 1. pp. 475-476.

2008

• Smith, A. and Harris, A.L. (2008) Recent acquisitions and conservation of antiquities at the Ure museum, University of Reading 2004–2008. Archaeological Reports, 54. pp. 175-185. ISSN 2041-4102 doi: 10.1017/S0570608400001009
• Smith, A. C., Fuchs, B. and Isaksen, L. (2008) VLMA: a tool for creating, annotating and sharing virtual museum collections. Digital Medievalist, 4. ISSN 1715-0736

2007

• Smith, A. C. (2007) Komos growing up among satyrs and humans. In: Cohen, A. and Rutter, J. B. (eds.) Constructions of childhood in Greek and Roman antiquity. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, pp. 153-171. ISBN 9780876615416
• Bradley, R. and Smith, A. (2007) Questions of context: a Greek cup from the River Thames. In: Gosden, C., Hamerow, H., De Jersey, P. and Lock, G. (eds.) Communities and Connections. Essays in Honour of Barry Cunliffe. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 30-42. ISBN 9780199230341
• Smith, A. C. (2007) Corpus vasorum antiquorum, Great Britiain fascicule 23. Reading Museum Service. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp104. ISBN 9780197263891

2006

• Smith, A. C. (2006) The evolution of the Pan Painter's artistic style. Hesperia, 75 (4). pp. 435-451. ISSN 0018-098X

2005

• Smith, A. C. (2005) From drunkenness to a hangover. In: Herrin, J. and Stafford, E. (eds.) Personification in the Greek world. Ashgate, pp. 211-230. ISBN 9780754650317
• Smith, A. C. (2005) The politics of weddings at Athens: an iconographic assessment. Leeds International Classical Studies, 4 (1). pp. 1-32. ISSN 1477-3643
• Smith, A. C. (2005) 'Homeric' art in ancient Greece: the case of Polyphemos. In: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 27 June 2005. (Proceedings of the BRLSI 9)
• Smith, A. C. (2005) The virtual lightbox for museums and archives: a portlet solution for structured data reuse across distributed visual resources. In: Museums and the Web 2005, 14-16 April 2005, Toronto.

2004

• Smith, A. C. (2004) Olympia by the time of Alexander the Great. In: Kaila, M. (ed.) The Olympic Games in antiquity. Bring forth rain and bear fruit. Atropos, Athens, pp. 137-171. ISBN 9789608325739
• Smith, A. C. (2004) The strife of cups: Greek vases at the symposium. Omnibus, 48. pp. 23-25.

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