Milette Gaifman

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Milette Gaifman is a historian of ancient art and archaeology. In 2022 she was named the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Classics and History of Art at Yale University. [1] Her scholarship focuses on Greek art of the Archaic and Classical periods. [2]

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Biography

Gaifman received her B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997 and her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2005. She was a visiting scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 2008 to 2009, and she joined the faculty of the Department of the History of Art at Yale University in 2009. She was an invited professor at Paris Diderot University in 2015. [3]

She was the Co-Editor in Chief of The Art Bulletin from 2018 to 2019. [4]

Research

Gaifman has published extensively on the art and archaeology of the ancient world. She is the author of two books, Aniconism in Greek Antiquity, [5] [6] [7] for which she received the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, [8] and The Art of Libation in Classical Athens. [9] [10] [11] She has a forthcoming book titled Classification and the History of Greek Art and Architecture, which is revised and expanded from the distinguished Louise Smith Bross Lectures delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago in 2018. [12]

She has written numerous articles and chapters on various aspects of ancient art and archaeology as well as on the historiography of the field. [13] [14]

Teaching

Gaifman teaches the lecture course Art and Myth in Greek Antiquity, which has repeatedly been the most popular undergraduate class in the humanities at Yale. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "Gaifman named Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Classics and History of Art".
  2. ↑ "Milette Gaifman". Yale History of Art.
  3. ↑ "Milette Gaifman". Yale History of Art.
  4. ↑ "ANNOUNCING MILETTE GAIFMAN AND LILLIAN LAN-YING TSENG AS COEDITORS OF THE ART BULLETIN".
  5. ↑ Gaifman, Milette (2012-05-31). Aniconism in Greek Antiquity. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199645787.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-19-964578-7.
  6. ↑ "Review of: Aniconism in Greek Antiquity. Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN   1055-7660.
  7. ↑ "Aniconism in Greek Antiquity | American Journal of Archaeology". www.ajaonline.org. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  8. ↑ "Four faculty awarded international book prizes".
  9. ↑ Gaifman, Milette (2018). The Art of Libation in Classical Athens. Yale University Press.
  10. ↑ Gondek, Renee M. (2021). "The Art of Libation in Classical Athens by Milette Gaifman". Classical Journal. 117 (1): 120–122. doi:10.1353/tcj.2021.0002. ISSN   2327-5812. S2CID   244481099.
  11. ↑ "The Art of Libation in Classical Athens | American Journal of Archaeology". www.ajaonline.org. April 2019. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  12. ↑ "Milette Gaifman, "Classification and the History of Greek Art," Lecture 1 of 3". YouTube.
  13. ↑ Gaifman, Milette (2017). Aniconism: Definitions, Examples and Comparative Perspectives. Exploring Aniconism. pp. 335–352.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ↑ Gaifman, Milette (2018). "The Greek Libation Bowl as Embodied Object". The Embodied Object in Classical Antiquity, Special Issue of Art History: 444–465.
  15. ↑ "Who you calling Zeus? That's Atlas, as Yalies in booming classics course know". YaleNews.
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