Ph.D. Art History, The University of Texas at Austin; M.A. Art History, The University of Texas at Austin; B.S. Theater, Northwestern University

John Hopkins
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Fine Arts & the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Roman and early Italic art and architecture; longue durée Ancient Mediterranean visual culture; urbanism and spatial theory; macro-historical study of critical/cultural theory; debates on cultural heritage, collecting and display, and authenticity of ancient art and material culture; visual, spatial, and physical experience; processes of making and maker communities; and the composition of sociocultural practices through the physical crafting of goods among the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean
Fellowships/Honors
2018 Spiro Kostof Book Award of the Society of Architectural Historians; 2017 Gustave O. Arlt Humanities Award of the Council of Graduate Schools; 2015 Invited Scholar, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study; 2010-2011 Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, Getty Research Institute; 2010 Outstanding Dissertation Award, The University of Texas, awarded for the best dissertation in Humanities and Fine Arts; 2009-2010 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies; 2007-2009 Rome Prize (Frances Barker Tracy/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America two-year Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize), American Academy in Rome; 2008 Scott Opler Endowment for New Scholars Fellowship, The Society of Architectural Historians; 2007-2008 Cullen Trust Endowment Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin; 2002-2007 M. K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin; 2006 Etruscan Foundation Fieldwork Fellowship, Etruscan Foundation; 2005-2006 Dr. Ralph and Marie B. Hanna Centennial Endowed Scholarship in Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Publications
BOOKS
Forthcoming. Unbinding Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape, ca. 750-250 BCE. Yale University Press.
Forthcoming. Editor with Scott McGill. Forgery Beyond Deceit: Value, Fabrication, and the Desire for Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press.
2021. Principal editor, with Sarah Costello and Paul Davis. Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art. The Menil Collection and Yale University Press.
2016. The Genesis of Roman Architecture. Yale University Press.
Reviews: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.10.30; New York Review of Books 4.20.2017; American Journal of Archaeology (2017) 121.1; College Art Association Reviews 2017.171; Etruscan Studies 2017, 20.2; Journal of Roman Archaeology (2017) 30.2: 543; Art Bulletin (2017) 99.4: 191-193.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS; EXCAVATION REPORTS
2021. “Introduction: The Long Lives of Ancient Objects” in John Hopkins, Sarah Costello and Paul Davis, Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art (The Menil Collection and Yale University Press).
2021. “Decapitated: Reassembling and Reassessing the Lives of Two Sculpted Heads,” in John Hopkins, Sarah Costello and Paul Davis, Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art (The Menil Collection and Yale University Press).
2019. “Decoding the Regia” Journal of Roman Archaeology 32, no. 2, 546-555.
2019. “Roman Republican Architecture,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, ed. Kevin Murphy (Oxford University Press). 130-work critical bibliography. doi:10.1093/obo/9780190922467-0026.
Book Review of Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy, by Seth Bernard. Oxford University Press. American Journal of Archaeology (2019).
2018. “A Collaborative Path for Research into Ancient Art and Heritage Objects.” In Selected Papers on Ancient Art and Architecture. Archaeological Institute of America.
2017. “Tarquins, Romans and Architecture at the Threshold of Republic.” In Patricia Lulof and Christopher Smith, eds. The Age of Tarquinius Superbus, Central Italy in the Late 6th Century. Babesch Supplement 29. Peeters Publishers. 135-142.
2014. “The Creation of the Forum and the Making of Monumental Rome.” in Elizabeth C. Robinson, ed. Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary Series Number 97. Papers on Italian Urbanism in the First Millennium B.C. 29-61.
2013. “The Getty Acheloös Waterspout and Triton Mutulus Plaque.” in The Getty Research Journal. (5). 165-172.
2012. “The Capitoline Temple and the Effects of Monumentality on Roman Temple Design.” in Michael Thomas and Gretchen Meyers, eds. Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation. University of Texas Press. 111-127.
2012. “The Sacred Sewer: Tradition and Religion in Rome’s Cloaca Maxima” in Bradley, Mark, ed. Rome, Pollution and Propriety: Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in Rome from Antiquity to Modernity. Cambridge University Press. 81-102.
2010. “The Colossal Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in Archaic Rome.” in S. Camporeale et al., eds. I cantieri edili dell’Italia e delle province romane, 2: Italia e province occidentali. Merida: Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida, 15-33.
2010. “The Theater of Pompey in 2009: A New Excavation.” with James Packer and Cristina Gagliardo. In Bullettino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma. (111). 71-96.
2007. “The Cloaca Maxima and the Monumental Manipulation of Water in Archaic Rome.” in K. W. Rinne, ed. The Waters of Rome. Charlottesville: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.
REVIEW ARTICLES
2017. “Book Review of Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, edited by Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin” in American Journal of Archaeology 121.
Other Major Projects
Collections Analysis Collaborative (cac.rice.edu): Research and educational initiative to generate new models for provenance collaboration between museums and universities
Courses Taught
Survey of ancient art; survey of Roman art and architecture; architecture and politics in ancient Rome; materiality and spatiality in Roman concrete architecture; Italic and early Roman architecture and archaeology; 3-D virtual reconstruction of historical cities; introduction and advanced study courses in museums and cultural heritage; graduate seminar on art historical methods and theory; graduate seminar on early Roman art and architecture; graduate seminar on Imperial Roman art and architecture
Professional Affiliations
Archaeological Institute of America (Committee on Research and Academic Affairs); Society of Architectural Historians; College Art Association; American Academy in Rome (FAAR 2009); Rice University Department of Art History Affiliated Faculty
Contact
John Hopkins
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Fine Arts & the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Jnh1@nyu.edu 100 Washington Square East303 Silver Center
New York, NY 10011