Tyler Jo Smith
A.B., Davidson College 1989 Assistant Professor, Greek Art and Archaeology Tyler Jo Smith is a classical archaeologist who specializes in Greek vase-painting and iconography. Her research has focused largely on images of komasts (revelers) in Archaic Greek art and their relationship to drama, religion, and social customs. Her other areas of research include the archaeology of Anatolia and the Black Sea, connections between art and religion, ancient performance, and the history of collecting. She has recently co-edited (with M. Henig), Collectanea Antiqua: Essays in Memory of Sonia Chadwick Hawkes (BAR 2007), and A Companion to Greek Art (ed. with D. Plantzos) is forthcoming with Blackwell Publishing. She is currently working on the publication of the Greek vases in the collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. Professor Smith offers lectures and seminars in many areas of ancient art and archaeology including vase-painting, material culture, iconography, religious festivals, and ancient Sparta. She teaches theory and methods at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and is currently developing a course on Greco-Roman Jewish art. With John Dobbins and Malcolm Bell, she teaches and advises students in the graduate program in classical archaeology. In 2007 she received the university ’s Phi Eta Sigma teaching award. An active field archaeologist, Professor Smith has participated on excavations in Greece (Knossos, Chios), Sicily (Morgantina), and England (Oxford), and in field surveys in Turkey (Northern Lycia). At UVa she is involved with the Orthodox Christian Fellowship, the Arab-American Student Association, and has been a Faculty Fellow of Hereford College since 2001. She is a member of the British School at Athens, the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, the International Dance Council, the Classical Association of Virginia, and the Archaeological Institute of America, for which she serves as Secretary of the Charlottesville society. Her recent honors include the T.B.L. Webster Fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies in London, a Research Fellowship of the M. Alwyn Cotton Foundation, and in summer 2008 she was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
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