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Updated July 2014 NAME: Brunilde Sismondo RIDGWAY (Mrs. Henry W., Jr.) TEL: (610) 649-5191 (office) Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 19010, EDUCATION: Laurea in Lettere Classiche (Doctorate), Messina University, June 1953 M.A. in Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, June 1954 (Fulbright Foreign Scholar) American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 1955-1957 Ph.D. in Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, June 1958 Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, Georgetown University, May 1992 Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa, Union College, June 1992 PRESENT TITLE : Rhys Carpenter Professor Emerita of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College BRYN MAWR COLLEGE APPOINTMENTS: Assistant, 1957-58; Instructor, 1958-60; Asst. Prof., 1961- 67; Assoc. Prof., 1967-70; Professor, 1970-77; Rhys Carpenter Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, 1977-Dec. 1993 (Department Head, 1983-88; Acting Head, 1989-1991), R. Carpenter Professor Emerita, Jan. 1994-- OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: 1960-61: Asst. Prof. and Chair, Dept. of Classics, Hollins College, Roanoke, VA 1968, January-April: Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 1978, January-April: Andrew Mellon Distinguished Visiting Professor in Fine Arts, University Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1986, September-December: Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. l988, Sept. 16-Dec. 17: Elizabeth Whitehead Visiting Professor, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece Oct.-Dec. 1989: Geddes-Harrower Chair in Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (six public lectures) 1990, March 10-18: Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professorship, The University of British Columbia (Department of Classics), Vancouver, B.C., Canada (four public lectures and a seminar session) 1992, Jan. 12-17: Dr. Harry Lyman Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 1992, March 3-April 20: Visiting Professor, Australian lecture tour, Archaeological Institute of Australia at Athens (see listing under LECTURES) 1995, March 27-31: Hanes-Willis Visiting Professor, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (four public lectures and a seminar session) 1995, Oct. 22-Nov. 12: Visiting Professor, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (six public lectures, etc.) 1996, Aug. 25-Dec. 14: Sather Professor, Department of Classics, University of California at Berkeley (6 public lectures, semester-long graduate seminar) 1997, Jan. 6-April 25: Langford Family Eminent Scholar, Dept. of Classics, Florida State University, Tallahassee (1 graduate seminar, 1 undergraduate course; co-organizer of the Fourth Annual Langford Conference; contributor to the visit to Berlin [Pergamon Museum]) 2000, Jan.-May: Katherine E. McBride Prof. in the Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College (graduate seminar on Hellenistic Sculpture of the first century B.C.) 2004, Aug. 30-Sept. 30: Unofficially replaced P. Webb for Graduate Seminar (Arch. 619: Cultic and Commemorative Monuments) and Undergraduate course (Arch. 252: Pompeii), Bryn Mawr College PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected listing): 1967 and 1971: Director, Summer Session, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece 1971 and 1974: Director, Study Tours of Sicily and of North Africa (Morocco and Tunisia) for the Archaeological Institute of America 1977-1985: Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Archaeology, for the Archaeological Institute of America (and ex-officio member of the Executive Committee and the Publication Committee) 1979,1994, 2001: Leader, Archaeological Tours of Sicily, for the Alumnae/i Associations of Bryn Mawr/Haverford Colleges 1981-1982: Lecturer, the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures, University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome l988, Oct. 21: 12th Félix Neubergh Lecturer, Gothenburg University, Sweden 1996, June 2-15: enrichment lecturer for AIA/BMC Alumnae tour of Ancient Lykia (Turkey) 1996, Aug.-Dec.: Lecturer, the Sather Classical Lectures, University of California at Berkeley 1997, June 4-14: enrichment lecturer for tour of Turkey/Aegean islands, Annemarie Victory Inc., on the Sea Cloud 2000, June 15-29: research trip to Athens and Cyprus (Athienou-Malloura) OUTSIDE GRANTS AND AWARDS: 1965, 1969, 1980: Summer grants from the American Philosophical Society 1965, 1973, 1981-82: Grants from the American Council of Learned Societies 1969: Summer grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities 1974--75: Guggenheim Fellowship 1981(May): Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching 1986, Sept.-Jan.: Kress Senior Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1988: (conferred Jan. 7, 1989): Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement : Silver medal conferred as 12th Felix Neubergh Lecturer (first woman), at Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden 1989: National Gold Medalist in 1989 Professor of the Year Program, The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) 1989: Pennsylvania Professor of the Year, CASE 1992: see “Degrees” : Establishment of Annual Ridgway Lecture for AIA Society, Seattle, WA 1998: K. J. Hartswick and M. C. Sturgeon, eds., ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ, Studies in Honor of B. S. Ridgway (Philadelphia) 2000: establishment of a B. Ridgway Fellowship for a graduate student to attend the Cyprus (Hieronesos) excavation by New York University directed by Prof. J. B. Connelly 2001: establishment of two B. Ridgway Fellowships at the ASCSA (by L. E. Cotsen) [discontinued 2004 ?] 2006: Henry Allan Moe Prize in the Humanities for paper read at the APS on Nov. 15, 2003, and published in Proceedings of the APS, March 2005: “The Study of Greek Sculpture in the Twenty-first Century” (conferred at San Francisco, Nov. 20, 2006, at award dinner of Autumn General Meeting MEMBERSHIPS: Archaeological Institute of America: member, 1957; Life Member,1968-- German Archaeological Institute: elected Corresponding Member,1967-- International Association for Classical Archaeology, 1972-1991 Alumni Association, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1956-- ASMOSIA, 1988-94 American Philosophical Society, elected member, 1993-- Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (London): elected Honorary Member, 1997 Board, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2006---- PUBLICATIONS: Books The Severe Style in Greek Sculpture (Princeton 1970; also paperback ed.) Classical Sculpture , Catalogue of the Classical Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI, 1972) The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture (Princeton 1977; also paperback; Second revised and expanded edition, paperback, (Ares Publishers, Inc., Chicago, 1993) B.S. Ridgway and G.F. Pinney, eds., Aspects of Ancient Greece, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition at the Allentown Museum of Art (Allentown, PA, 1979) Fifth Century Styles in Greek Sculpture (Princeton 1981; also paperback) Roman Copies of Greek Sculpture: The Problem of the Originals (The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures, 15th Series; Ann Arbor 1984) Editor, with J.V.Canby, E. Porada, T. Stech, Ancient Anatolia (Essays in Honor of Machteld J. Mellink) (Madison l986) With C.J. Eiseman, The Porticello Shipwreck: A Mediterranean Merchant Vessel of 415-385 B.C. (Texas A & M University Press, 1987); also paperback reprint 2012 Hellenistic Sculpture I: The Styles of ca. 331-200 B.C., (Madison,1990; paperback ed. 2001) B. S. Ridgway, et al., Greek Sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University: Greek Originals, Roman Copies and Variants (Princeton 1994)(as general editor, and contributor of seven entries) Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture (Madison 1997) Prayers in Stone: Greek Architectural Sculpture (c. 600-100 B.C.E) (the Sather Lectures 1996, vol. 63) (U. of CA Press,1999) Hellenistic Sculpture II: The Styles of ca. 200-100 B.C. (Madison 2000); also paperback ed., 2009 With N. T. de Grummond, From Pergamon to Sperlonga. Sculpture and Context , ed. and contributor (U. of CA Press, 2000) Hellenistic Sculpture III: The Styles of ca. 100-31 B.C. (Madison 2002) Second Chance. Greek Sculptural Studies Revisited (The Pindar Press, London, 2004) PUBLICATIONS: over 102 articles, 126 book reviews and review articles to date. OTHERS: Consultant for the NEH , 1971--(proposals in Archaeology; twice member of NEH panel for grants in Art History: 1976, 1987) Member of the Executive Committee of the American Branch of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 1972-1985 Contributor to Fasti Archaeologici of the International Association of Classical Archaeology (summaries of U.S. books), 1972-1985 May 15-16, 1980, member of the review commission for the program in Classics and Archaeology at Hunter College, NY Nominator for the John P. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship Foundation, 1984-1985 Reviewer for the Mellon Fellowships and the Getty Fellowships in Art History 1986-91 March 13-14, 1989: Member of panel (of three) to review graduate program in Classics at Loyola University, Chicago. National Panelist for Fulbright Fellowship applications (Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Spain, Portugal), 1990--1992 Reader for various University Presses, professional Journals, and for the Getty Trust Consultant, for the Turkish Department of Antiquities (via the firm of Herrick, Feinstein, New York), at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,