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CONSTANZE WITTDepartment
of Classics |
Art and Archaeology of Greece and Iron Age Europe, the Continental "Celts";
Art and Archaeology, History, Literature of the Hellenistic Mediterranean;
Anthropological Theory (epistemology; mortuary analysis; interregional interaction; explanations of cultural and stylistic change);
Instructional Technology
personal pages -- Alaskan Malamutes, trips
PhD in Classical Archaeology/Art History, University of Virginia,
May 1997.
Dissertation topic: Barbarians
on the Greek Periphery? Origins of Celtic Art
-- dissertation draft at Institute for
Advanced
Technology in the Humanities; see v.2 site at UT Austin Liberal
Arts ITS
Advisor: Christopher Johns
Field Exams completed November 1992
Fields: Classical Archaeology, Hellenistic Sculpture, Terracottas
Supervisor: Malcolm Bell, III
Master's Degree in Classical Archaeology, February 1990
Minors: Hittite, Near Eastern Archaeology
Universität Würzburg, Germany
Supervisor: Heide Froning
Thesis Title: Das Bewegungsmotif der Baker-Tänzerin in der
griechischen Kleinkunst
Summa cum laude
A.B. Degree in Ancient Studies, 1983
Barnard College, Columbia University
Cum laude
Lecturer, The
Iron Age "Celts" (Substantial Writing Component course), Classics
Department, University of Texas at
Austin, Fall semester 2006; Spring semester 2008; Spring semester
2009
Lecturer, Introduction to Archaeological Studies II: The Classical World (CC302k undergraduate lecture/discussion course), Spring semester 2006
Lecturer, The Iron Age "Celts" (Substantial Writing Component course), Classics Department, University of Texas at Austin, Spring semester 2005
Lecturer, Life in the Hellenistic City (Substantial Writing Component course), Classics Department, University of Texas at Austin, Spring semester 2004
Lecturer, Life in the Hellenistic City (Substantial Writing Component course), Classics Department, University of Texas at Austin, Spring semester 2001
Lecturer, Introduction to Archaeological Studies II: The Classical World (CC302k/ARY302 undergraduate lecture course), Classics Department, University of Texas at Austin, Spring semester 2000
Instructor, Life in the Hellenistic City (SWC course), Classics Department, University of Texas at Austin, Fall semester 1998
Instructional Technology Specialist, LAN Admin and TSC, Classics Department, University of Texas at Austin, July 1997 - present
Instructor, Art and its Purposes (Art History 201), and Survey of the History of Art, Part I (Art History 205), James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Virginia) Spring Semester 1996
Technical Teaching Assistant for internet publishing, Roman Houses and Villas (graduate seminar), Professor: John Dobbins, University of Virginia, McIntire Dept. of Art, Fall Semester 1995
Electronic Publishing Assistant, University Publications, University of Virginia, 1995-1997
Digital imager and digital graphics assistant to Visual Resources Curator, University of Virginia Art Department, 1993-1995
Text editor, Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia Press, 1991-1995
Student programmer/Digital imager, Digital Image Center, University of Virginia, summer-fall 1995
Associate Director of Studies, Administration, Hereford College, University of Virginia, 1993-94
Lecturer, Greek Art, Art History 213 undergraduate lecture course, University of Virginia, Fall 1993
Teaching Assistant, Art History 102 (second half of survey), University of Virginia, Supervisor: Lawrence O. Goedde, Spring 1993
Lecturer, Art of the Hellenistic World, Art History 491 fourth-year seminar, University of Virginia, Fall 1992
Excavation Registrar, Morgantina, Sicily University of Virginia excavation, Supervisor: Malcolm Bell, III; Summer 1992
Teaching Assistant, Art History 102 (second half of survey), University of Virginia, Supervisor: Lawrence O. Goedde, Spring 1992
Teaching Assistant, Art History 101 (first half of survey), University of Virginia, Supervisor: David Lawall, Fall 1991
Instructor, Animals in Ancient Art, University of Virginia Summer Enrichment Program, Summer 1991
Teaching Assistant, German 102, University of Virginia, Spring 1992
Instructor, Assistant for Curriculum Development: English. Würzburger Dolmetscherschule (school for translators and interpreters) Würzburg, Germany; 1984-September 1990
Curatorial Assistant, Gallery Speaker, Docent, Assistant in Conservation (ad hoc), Martin-von- Wagner Museum, Würzburg, Germany; 1984-1990
“Hillary Clinton’s Ancient Sisters: Leaders and Warriors among
Iron Age Celtic Women,” Guest lecture, Austin Community College History
Society, April 2008
Co-Organizer, Paper Session: "Finding Nothing: Archaeological
'Hiatus'," European Association of Archaeologists Meeting, Zadar,
Croatia, September 2007; Paper: "Time Away?"
"Preserved in Salt: Hallstatt-era Textiles," Presentation, Austin TX Mensa chapter
Organizer, Paper Session: "The Closed Context in Context III," European Association of Archaeologists Meeting, Krakow, Poland, September 2006 Introduction and perspective
"Hard-Drinking Celtic Women" Invited Lecture, Travis County Archaeological Society, Austin, May 2006
"The 'Heroine' of Lefkandi and Gender in Iron Age Europe" Paper, AIA Meeting, Montreal, January 2006
Organizer, Paper Session: "The Closed Context in Context II," European Association of Archaeologists Meeting, Cork, Ireland, October 2005 -- Introduction: "Taxonomy, Stratigraphy, Seashells and Time Capsules"; Paper: "The Open Tomb"
"Imaging sameness: creating the derivative between high and low cultures" Invited Paper, EAA Meeting, Cork, Ireland, October 2005
"'Celtic' Conviviality" Lecture, Scholia Society, Austin, TX, October, 2004
"Identity and Agency in the Hellenistic Age: Past and Future?" Invited Paper, EAA Meeting, Lyon, France, September 2004
"Hard-Drinking Heroines of Iron Age Europe" Lecture, Gaelic League, Austin, TX, July 2004
"Bronzes, Booze and Boasting: the 'Celts' at Banquet" Paper, AIA Meeting, San Francisco, January 2004
Organizer, Paper Session: "The Closed Context in Context," European Association of Archaologists Meeting, St Petersburg, Russia, October 2003. Paper: "Musings on the Open Tomb"
"Historical and Ahistorical Archaeologies: the Example of the Classical World and Iron Age Europe" Invited Paper, EAA Meeting, St Petersburg, Russia, October 2003 "
"A Celtic Banquet" Lecture, AIA Houston chapter, January 2003
"Two Iron Age Women: the 'Lady' of Vix and the 'Heroine' of Lefkandi" Paper, 7th Gender and Archaeology Conference, Sonoma, October, 2002
"The Heroine of Lefkandi" Paper, CAMWS Meeting, Austin, April 2002
"A Celtic Banquet: the Wagon, the Flagon and the Brew that is True" Paper, AIA Austin chapter, November 2001
Organizer, Paper Session: "Worlds Collide: Multiculturalism in the Archaeological Record," European Association of Archaeologists Meeting, Esslingen, Germany, September, 2001
"The Hochdorf Burial: Approaches to Celtic Identity" Paper, European Association of Archaeologists Meeting, Esslingen, Germany, September, 2001
"Kouro-Keltos? The Glauberg 'Chieftain' and the Hirschlanden 'Warrior'" Paper, AIA Meeting, Dallas, December 1999
"Celtic Drinking in Context" Paper, European Association of Archaologists Meeting, Bournemouth, England, September 1999
"Who Was Who in the Ancient World? Current approaches to ethnic identity of the Celts and Greeks," Mimung Society Lecture, March 1999
"Recent Finds and Current Controversies in Iron Age Celtic Studies," Mimung Society Lecture, September 1998
"'Dark and Uncanny': Looking at Celtic Art" AIA lecture, Austin, February 1998
"Whose Barbarians? Celtic or Greek" Luncheon Talk, Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory, January 1998
"The City Shown and Seen" Paper, APA Meeting, Chicago, December 1997
"Drinking and Death in Iron Age Europe: Mediterranean Imports and Early Celtic Style" Paper, AIA Meeting, San Diego, December 1995
"Playthings of the Rich? Images of the Poor in Hellenistic Art" Paper, APA Meeting, San Diego, December 1995
Co-Organizer, "Opulence and Penury in the Hellenistic World" Panel, AIA/APA Meeting, San Diego, December 1995
"Barbarians on the Greek Periphery? Emulation or Innovation in Early Celtic Style" Paper, SECAC Meeting, New Orleans; October 1994
"Mediterranean Vessels in Celtic Tombs: Questioning the Model of 'Hellenization'" Paper, Yale Graduate Symposium on Art and Archaeology: Mediterranean Interactions; April 1994
"The Language of Greek Art" Guest Lecture, Classics 204: Mythology; March 1994
"Greek Influence on South Italian Vase Painting and Etruscan Style" Lecture to Docents, Bayly Art Museum Education Department; January 1994
"Daily Life in Third Century Morgantina: Ritual, Play and Women's Work" Paper, SECAC Meeting, Chapel Hill; October 1993
"Greek and Etruscan Art" Gallery Talk, Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia; October 1993
"Greek Myths and Greek Art" Guest Lecture, Summer Classics Course, University of Virginia; August 1993
"Spectacle and Piety in Theocritus' Idyll 15" Guest Lecture, Classics Department University of Virginia; March 1993
"An Etruscan Urn in the Bayly Museum: The Hero with the Plow" Paper, SECAC Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama; October 1992
"Egyptomania in Augustan Art" Paper accepted, AIEMA Colloquium, Charlottesville, Virginia; October 1992
Frequent gallery talks, Martin-von-Wagner-Museum, Würzburg, Germany; 1985-1990
Published:
2009. "The "Celts'," in A
Companion to Ancient History, Andrew Erskine, ed., Blackwell.
Chapter 26, pp. 284-298.
Worlds Collide: Multiculturalism and the Archeological Record (University of Texas Press)
in preparation:
"The 'Heroine' of Lefkandi" (study of early Iron Age Greek female burials)
"Kouro-Keltos? The Glauberg 'Chieftain' and the Hirschlanden 'Warrior'" (study of two monumental "Celtic" sculptures in their contexts and in comparison with contemporary Greek works)
