Irene J. Winter | |
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Born | 1940 (age 84–85) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Barnard College Columbia University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Art |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Irene J. Winter (born 1940 in New York City [1] ) is an American art historian who is an influential and pioneering scholar of ancient Near Eastern art. [2]
BA Barnard College,Anthropology,1960;MA University of Chicago,Near Eastern Studies,1967;PhD Columbia University,Art History and Archaeology. She has taught at Queens College,CUNY,1971-1976,The University of Pennsylvania,1976-1988,and Harvard University since 1988,chairing the department of Fine Arts from 1993-1996,and served on the Faculty Council,2006-2009;retired June 2009. Slade Professor,University of Cambridge,1997. [3] She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and the American Philosophical Society in 2016. [4] [5]