John Pollini: Curriculum Vitae (September 2021) Professor of Classical Art, Archaeology, and History and USC Associates Endowed Professor in Art History University of Southern California, Department of Art History 3501 Trousdale Parkway, Taper Hall 355 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0351 [email protected] POSTDOCTORAL ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Full Professor, University of Southern California, Department of Art History (1991-present), with joint appointment in the Department of History and USC Associates Endowed Professor in Art History (2018-present) Dean of the School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California (1993-1996) Chairman of the Department of Art History, University of Southern California (1990-1993) Associate Professor, University of Southern California, Department of Art History, with adjunct appointment in the Department of Classics (1987-1991) Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Classics (1980-1987) and Curator of the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum (1980-1987) Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Classics (1979-1980) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Classics (1978-1979) Director, Visual Culture in the Ancient World, organizing lectures and symposia for a consortium of institutions and museums in the Los Angeles area (J. Paul Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Villa, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, and USC Fisher Museum of Art) (2010-present) EDUCATION Ph.D. Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California at Berkeley (1978) (interdisciplinary program involving the Departments of Art History, Classics, and History; major field: Etruscan and Roman Art and Archaeology; minor fields: Greek Art and Archaeology and Roman History; Ph.D. equivalency exams in ancient Greek and Latin) [Dissertation: Studies in Augustan “Historical” Reliefs] 2 M.A. Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California at Berkeley (l973) [M.A. Thesis: Two Marble Portrait Statues of Pugilists from Carian Aphrodisias: Iconography and Third Century A.D. Sculptural Traditions in the Roman East] B.A. magna cum laude, Classics, University of Washington (1968) ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION: United States: Internship in Greek and Roman Art with J. Frel at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Villa (1973-1975) Italy: American Academy in Rome: research for dissertation (1975-1978); Dante Alighieri Institute for study of the Italian language, Rome (1970-71); coursework in Roman, Etruscan, and Italic art and architecture, Università di Roma, with G. Becatti, M. Pallottino, F. Castagnoli, and M. Squarciapino (1970-1971) Germany: Goethe Institute, for study of the German language, Munich, Germany (1971); Coursework in Greek Art and Archaeology at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität München, with E. Homann-Wedeking (1971) INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS Senior Fellowship at the International Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Cologne, Germany (2017-2018) Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (Harvard University) (2017) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2016) Invited Scholar in Residence at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin (June 2016) Getty Guest Scholar (2016) Getty Residential Fellow (2015) Invited Scholar in Residence at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin (Fall 2011) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Collaborative Project, “Creating a ‘Total Environment’ for the Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts” (2010-2011) 3 Cotsen Fellow, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (2010-present) Research Associate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (2009-2010) Kress Foundation Travel Grant (June 2009) John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2006-2007, deferred to 2007-2008) Whitehead Professorship of Archaeology, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2006-2007) American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2006-2007) Kress Foundation Travel Grant (Summer 2006) Taggart Foundation Grant: Campus Martius Virtual Reality Project (2005) Kress Foundation Travel Grant (Summer 2003) Elected Corresponding Member (for life) of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin (2000) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research (1995-1996) Kress Foundation Travel Grant (Summer 1988) American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1987-1988) Kress Foundation Travel Grant (1987) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research (1983-1984) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University (1978-1979) Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund Fellowship to Italy (1975-1976) Fulbright Fellowship, Università di Roma, Rome, Italy (1975-1976) 4 UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS USC Associates Endowed Professorship in Art History (2018-present) (in recognition of academic achievement) Faculty Recognition Award from the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society for the book From Republic to Empire: Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of Ancient Rome (2015) Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative Grant (2009-2010, 2014-2015) College Faculty Research Development Award (consecutive years from 2000-present) University of Southern California Award for Excellence in Mentoring (2005) Departmental Nominee for University Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching (2002-2005) University of Southern California Grant for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching (with Lynn Swartz Dodd and Nicholas Cipolla) for the virtual reality project “Imaging Antiquity: Creating Context through Virtual Reconstructions, Digital Resources, and Traditional Media” (2003-2004) Grant for the “College Initiative for the Study of Political Violence” (2002) University of Southern California Grant for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching (with Bruce Zuckermann and Lynn Swartz Dodd) to develop a new interdisciplinary and interdepartmental course entitled “Accessing Antiquity: Actual Objects in Virtual Space” (2000-2001) University of Southern California Senior Nominee for National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for Faculty Research (1998-1999) Departmental Nominee for University Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching (1998-2001) College Awards and Grants for Research Excellence (consecutive years: 1997-2000) Hewlett Foundation Award and Grant for General Education Course Development (1997-1998) Faculty Research and Innovation Fund Grant, University of Southern California (1988) University of California Traveling Fellowship (1976-1977) 5 Dean’s Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley (1973-1975) Phi Beta Kappa, University of Washington (1968) DISTINGUISHED NAMED LECTURESHIPS Mario Del Chiaro Lectureship, University of California at Berkeley (2021) Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship in Archaeology (14 lectures for the Archaeological Institute of America) (2012-2013) William E. Metcalf Lectureship in Numismatics (3 lectures for the Archaeological Institute of America) (2008-2009) Albert H. Clayburgh Lectureship, Princeton University (2008) Distinguished Lecturer, Biblical Archaeological Society and Center for Classical Archaeology (3 lectures), University of Oklahoma, Norman (2005) ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS Excavation of Late Republican Mausoleum area on the Via Ostiense at Ostia Antica (field school course for USC students) in conjunction with the American Institute for Roman Culture (2013-2015) Excavations north of the Porta Marina area of Ostia Antica (field school course for USC students) in conjunction with the American Institute for Roman Culture (2012) Excavation in the Area Sacra di San Omobono (at foot of the Capitoline Hill), Rome, Italy (field school course for USC students ), in conjunction with the University of Michigan, the University of Calabria, and the American Institute for Roman Culture (2011) Excavation in Porta Marina area of Ostia Antica (field school course for USC students) in conjunction with the University of Bologna and the American Institute for Roman Culture with USC students (2010) Underwater survey of port of Tarquinia (Gravisca), Italy: Consultant (1977) Excavation of Etruscan site of Ghiaccio Forte, Italy (1973) Excavation of Greco-Roman site of Aphrodisias, Turkey (1970-1972) Excavation of Spanish Mission, Guevavi, Arizona (1965-1966) 6 LANGUAGES Ancient: Latin and Greek Modern: German, Italian, French, Spanish, Modern Greek, Turkish BOOKS PUBLISHED: I) The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar (Fordham University Press, New York 1987) (with a subvention from the National Endowment for the Humanities). [online: http://independent.academia.edu/JohnPollini] II) Roman Portraiture: Images of Character and Virtue, with graduate student participation (Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles 1990). III) Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization: The Cobannus Hoard (Monumenta Graeca et Romana IX) (Brill, Leiden 2002). IV) The de Nion Head: A Masterpiece of Archaic Greek Sculpture (Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2003). V) Terra Marique: Studies in Art History and Marine Archaeology in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann on the Receipt of the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America (editor, designer, and contributor of introduction, publication list, and one of 19 essays) (Oxbow Publications, Oxford 2005). VI) From Republic to Empire: Rhetoric, Religion, and