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Curriculum Vitae SUZANNE PETERSON MURRAY Dept. of History University of South Florida Tampa, Florida 33620 (813-974-3139); [email protected]

Education:

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1981. Major Field: Ancient Art Specialization: Bronze Age Greece. Minor Fields: Classics, Scandinavian Art. Dissertation: "Wall Painting in the Aegean Bronze Age: The Procession Frescoes." Advisor: Frederick A.Cooper (Wm. A. McDonald consulting). Associate Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Greece), 1978-1980. M.A., University of Minnesota, 1975. Major: Art History (Ancient). Minors: Classics, English. B.A., magna cum laude, University of Minnesota, 1972. Majors: Art History, English.

TEACHING SPECIALIZATIONS: 1) Classical Archaeology 2) Prehistoric Greece 3) Ancient Civilizations/History: Near East, Egypt, Greece 4) Ancient Art and Architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Instructor. Dept. of History, 2001-present. Senior Instructor (Level II), 2011- present. Courses: Ancient History I, Archaeology of Greece. Directed Study: Minoan Palaces (Spring 2008). Honors Thesis directed: Reconstruction of an Athenian House of the 5th Century BC (R. Genung, 2006).

Adjunct Assistant Professor. Dept. of History, University of South Florida, 1989, 1991, 1996-2001. Courses: Ancient Art and Society, Classical Archaeology, Ancient History I. Honors Program: Major Works/Major Issues: New Kingdom Egypt (F1999). Dept. of Humanities and American Studies, University of South Florida, 1999. Course: The Culture of Ancient Greece. Dept. of Art, University of South Florida, 1986-87, 1989. Courses: Greek & Roman Art, Directed Study: Mycenaean Greece, 19th Cent. Art.

Lecturer. Archaeological Institute of America Tours (2008, 2010, 2011). Lecturer and host on three Mediterranean cruises (destinations varied). Lecture topics: Bronze Age Greece, Greek Theater, Pompeii, Medieval Italy. Suzanne Peterson Murray Page 2

Lindblad’s Special Expeditions (1995, 1996). Lectures on three Mediterranean cruises on the sailing yacht “Sea Cloud.” School of Educational Outreach/Continuing Education, University of South Florida. Courses: “Wonders of the Ancient World” (1995, 1984), “Ancient Art and Archaeology” (1988), "The Golden Age: Life and Art in Classical Athens" (1986). The Tampa Museum of Art (1984, 1985). Course: "Treasure Troves of Ancient Art: Selected Cultural Centers of the Ancient World."

Professional Consultant. “Idomeneo,” Opera San Jose, 2011. Archaeological consultant on costumes, props and sets for the opera production, sponsored by the Packard Humanities Institute. Tampa Museum of Art and Tampa Educational Consortium, 1995. Authored script for gallery video; consultant for TEC video.

Director. USF Study Abroad in Greece, Summer 2003, 2005. Duties: Designed, organized and led 4-credit, 3-week study tour in Greece.

Assistant Director. Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies, University of South Florida, 2000-2005.

Co-Director. American School of Classical Studies, Summer Session II, 1986. Duties included delivering lectures at sites and museums throughout Greece.

Guest Curator. Exhibit: "Collecting the Classical Past: Antiquities from the Joseph Veach Noble Collection," The Tampa Museum of Art, December 1985-February 1986.

Acting Associate Curator. The Tampa Museum of Art, 1985. Duties: Replaced Senior Curator in charge of collections, exhibitions and acquisitions.

Teaching Associate. Dept. of Art History, University of Minnesota, 1975-1977.

Teaching Assistant. Dept. of Art History, University of Minnesota. 1974-1975, 1981.

PUBLICATIONS:

Exhibition Catalogs / Monographs: Collecting the Classical Past: Antiquities from the Joseph Veach Noble Collection (56-page catalogue). The Tampa Museum of Art, 1985; rpt. 1986. Analysis of Six Foreign Educational Systems. Special Bulletin of the Florida Educational Research and Development Council, Research Bulletin. Spring 1983.

Articles, Chapters and Museum Guides: "Reconsidering the Room of the Ladies from Thera." XARIS: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr, Anne Chapin, ed. (Hesperia monograph, American School of Classical Studies 2004). "Attic Vases and Athenian Society," Gallery Guide for the Tampa Museum of Art, 1988. Suzanne Peterson Murray Page 3

"Ancient Sculpture and Engraving," Gallery Guide for the Tampa Museum of Art, 1988. "The Greeks in South Italy," Gallery Guide for the Tampa Museum of Art, 1988, co-authored with William K. Zewadski. "Lost at sea--3,400 years ago," The Orlando Sentinel, Dec. 9, 1984; co-author W.M. Murray.

PRESENTATIONS:

“Prehistoric Puzzles: Bronze Age Paintings from Greece,” Ninth Annual Lecture on Greek Archaeology, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, February 2000. “The Enigmatic Lady in Yellow from the House of the Ladies,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Washington, D.C., 1998. “Great Sites: Sensational Discoveries in Mediterranean Archaeology,” 3-lecture “Armchair Archaeology” series, Archaeological Institute of America-Tampa Bay Society, 1994. "The Ladies of Akrotiri: Bronze Age Painting from Thera, Greece," Archaeological Inst. of America and Classics Society, Tampa, Feb. 1991. "Ritual Costumes and Costuming in Aegean Art," Second Annual Southern Conference on Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology, Emory University, March 1988. "The Seated Goddess and Aegean Processional Paintings," Southern Conference on Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology, Florida State University, March 1987. "The J.V. Noble Collection in the Tampa Museum of Art," Southern Conference on Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology, Florida State University, March 1987. "A Costuming Scene from the Room of the Ladies on Thera," Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, 1980 (abstract published in AJA 85 [1981], 211).

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE:

Actium Ram Project, 2009. Digital scanning of Augustus’s Campsite Memorial, Nikopolis, Greece (W.M. Murray, Director, in conjunction with AIST, University of South Florida). The Actium Project, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997. Underwater archaeological survey off northwestern Greece (Director W.M. Murray). Cornell Halai East Locris Project, 1988 (Central Greece; J. Coleman and W. Murray, Directors). Octavian's Campsite Memorial Survey Project, 1986, Nikopolis, Greece (Director: W. Murray). Akarnania (Greece) Coastal Survey Project, 1980, 1983 (Director: W. Murray). Arkadia Survey Project, 1979 (Directors: F.A. Cooper and R. Hope-Simpson).

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & Service:

Archaeological Institute of America (member, 1972-present). Society Prize Committee (2001-2004). Secretary/Treasurer and Co-Founder, Tampa Bay Society of the AIA (1986-present). Co-Organizer, Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Tampa, FL, April 2008. Secretary/Treasurer, Alumni Association of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1988-1991). Co-Organizer, Third Annual Southern Conference on Mediterranean Archaeology, University of South Florida, March 1989.