Joan Breton Connelly

Professor of Art History, Classics; Director, NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations (Cyprus)
Ph.D. 1984 (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology), M.A. 1979, Bryn Mawr College; A.B. 1976 (Classics), Princeton University.

Research Interests:

Greek sculpture and vase painting, Greek myth and religion, Cypriot archaeology, the Hellenistic East. Association of American Publishers Award for Best Book in Classics and Ancient History, 2007; named to New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2007" list for "Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece."

Affiliations:

Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, Trustee; Society of Anitquaries of London; Royal Geographical Society, Explorers Club; Society of Women Geographers; Archaeological Institute of America; Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (former trustee); Oxford Philological Society; Pilgrims of the United States.

Fellowships/Honors:

Visiting Scholar in Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 2007; Archaeological Institute of America Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2007; Honorary Citizenship, Peyia Municipality, Republic of Cyprus; Lillian Vernon Chair for Teaching Excellence, New York University; Appointed to the United States Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President George W. Bush, (February 2003), reappointed (2007); John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; Visiting Fellowships All Souls College, Magdalen College and New College, Oxford; Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Fellowship; New York University Presidential (Mellon) Fellowship; New York University Golden Dozen Teaching Award; Metropolitan Museum of Art Classical Fellowship and Norbert Schimmel Fellowship; Top Site Award, Educational Index and Windows on Cyprus Award for Captivating Content for http://www.nyu.edu/projects/yeronisos.

Selected Works:

Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Princeton University Press. 2007.
Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. New York. NYU Press. 1988.
Parthenon and Parthenoi: A Mythological Interpretation of the Parthenon Frieze. AJA, 100. 1996. 53-80.
Narrative and Image in Attic Vase Painting: Ajax and Kassandra at the Trojan Palladion, ed. Peter Holiday. Narrative and Event in Ancient Art. Cambridge. 1993. 88-129.
Votive Offerings of Hellenistic Failaka: Evidence for Herakles Cult. L'Arabie Preislamique et son Environnement Historique et Culturel, Universit des Sciences Humaine de Strasbourg. Leiden. 1989. 145-158.
Hellenistic Alexandria, Chapter 10, and Terracottas of Cyprus and Kuwait, Chapter 11, in The Coroplast's Art: Terracottas of the Hellenistic World, ed. J. Uhlenbrock. New Rochelle. 1990. 89-107.

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