Rachel Kousser

Education:

Ph.D., New York University - 2001 (Art History)

B.A., Yale University - 1994 (Classics / Art History)

Areas of Expertise:

Greek and Roman art, ancient sculpture, classicism, ancient iconoclasm.

Books and Publications

"The Female Nude in Classical Art: Between Voyeurism and Power." Aphrodite and the Gods of Love. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

"A Sacred Landscape: The Creation, Maintenance, and Destruction of Religious Space in Roman Germany." Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 27/28, Spring/Fall. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010

"Augustan Aphrodites: The Allure of Greek Art in Roman Visual Culture." Brill's Companion to Aphrodite. Spring. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2010

"Hellenistic and Roman Art, 221 BC-AD 337." Blackwell Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Blackwell. Fall. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010

"Destruction and Memory on the Athenian Acropolis." Art Bulletin. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

Review of The Language of the Muses: Hellenized Roman Sculpture, by Miranda Marvin. Journal of Roman Archaeology. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009

Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure of the Classical. Cambridge University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2008

"Mythological Portraiture in Antonine Rome: The Performance of Myth." American Journal of Archaeology. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007

"The Desirability of Roman Victory: Victoria on Imperial and Provincial Monuments." Representing War in Ancient Rome. Cambridge University Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006

"Creating the Past: The Vénus de Milo and the Hellenistic Reception of Classical Greece." American Journal of Archaeology, April. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

"From Conquest to Civilization: The Rhetoric of Imperialism in the Early Principate." A Tall Order: Festschrift for William Harris. Saur Verlag, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 216. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005

"The World of Aphrodite in Late Fifth Century Vase Painting." Greek Painted Pottery: Images, Contexts and Controversies. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2004

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 2011-12. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012

Center for Hellenic Studies non-residential fellowship. (2010-2011) (Grants and Fellowships) 2011

Getty Research Institute senior fellowship. 2011 (Grants and Fellowships) 2011

Alisa Bruce Mellon Senior Fellowship, Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (Awards and Honors) 2010

PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Grant. (Awards and Honors) 2009

New Faculty Fund Fellowship. (Awards and Honors) 2008

Postdoctoral fellowship, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

PSC-CUNY Research Award, CUNY Research Foundation. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

PSC-CUNY Research Award, CUNY Research Foundation. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005

Tow Faculty Travel Fellowship, Brooklyn College. (Awards and Honors) 2005

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"The Use and Abuse of Images in Ancient Greece." Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Aphrodite and the Female Nude." Museum of Fine Arts. Boston. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"Mutilated, bound, confined, concealed: "Voodoo dolls" in Classical and Hellenistic Greece." Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Spring 2011. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"Mutilating goddesses: Aphrodite in Late Antique Aphrodisias." "Prahistorische und antike Gottinen," Heilbronn, Spring 2011. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

"The aesthetics and facture of "voodoo dolls" in Classical Athens".
Department of Art History, University of California at Berkley, Spring 2011. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"The Living Image: Ancient and Modern Approaches to Iconoclasm." Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts. Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

"Memories of Greece, Souvenirs of Egypt: The Visual Culture of Expatriatism in Ptolemaic Alexandria." College Art Association Annual Meeting. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Monument and Memory in Ptolemaic Alexandria." CUNY Graduate Center. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009

"Augustan Aphrodites: The Allure of the Classical in the Early Empire." University of Reading. Reading, United Kingdom. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

"Colossal Power: Scale as Metaphor in Hellenistic Ruler Portraits." Heoretical Archaeology Group New York. Columbia University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"Destroying Sacred Space: Iconoclasm in Roman Germany." Archaeological Institute of America. Winter. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Lost on the Borderlands: Destroying Art in Roman Germany." College Art Association. Spring. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"The Parthenon as Palimpsest: Destruction and Memory on the Athenian Acropolis." Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University. New York.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

"Destroying the Power of Images in Late Roman Germany." Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Berlin. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

"Representing Sensual Power: A Classical Statue of Aphrodite in Corinth." Archaeological Institute of America. Winter. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"The Allure of the Classical: The Vénus de Milo and the Hellenistic Invention of Classical Art." Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Fall.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005