MARGARET L. WOODHULL Master of Humanities and Master of Social Science Program University of Colorado Denver MC-01 Campus Box 127 Denver, CO 80217 Margaret.woodhull@ucdenver.edu http://woodhull.net 303-352-3926 EDUCATION University of Texas, Austin, Texas Ph.D. in Art History, December 1999. Dissertation: Building Power: Women as Architectural Patrons During the Roman Empire, 30 BCE-54 CE Co-advisors: John R. Clarke and Penelope J.E. Davies M.A. in Art History, December 1993. Thesis: The Deer Hunters Sarcophagus at the San Antonio Museum of Art: An Exploration of Carving Techniques and Style Advisor: John R. Clarke American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece Summer Study Program, 1992 Georgetown University, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington, D.C. B.A. in Art History, May 1988. Concentration in Renaissance and Modern art. Honors thesis: The Symbolist Roots of Abstraction in the Art and Music of Wassily Kandinsky and Arnold Schoenberg The Charles A. Strong Center, Villa le Balze, Fiesole (Florence), Italy Study abroad program sponsored by Georgetown University, Academic year 1986-1987 PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND GRANTS 2007 Faculty Development Grant, University of Colorado Denver 2001-2004 James F. Ruffin Endowed Professorship, Rhodes College, Memphis TN 2000 Haakon Teaching Fellowship, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 1999 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women s Studies 1998 Wells Foundation Grant, Univ. of Texas, Austin 1998 Archaeological Institute of America, Graduate Student Annual Meeting Travel Award 1997-1998 Fulbright Fellowship, Rome, Italy 1997-1998 Woodruff Traveling Fellowship, Archaeological Institute of America (Croatia, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon) 1996 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in Field Archaeology 1996 Tommy and Sherry Jacks Travel Grant, Univ. of Texas, Austin 1995 Eleanor Greenhill Travel Grant, Univ. of Texas, Austin 1993 Dean s Travel Grant, Univ. of Texas, Austin 1988 David Lloyd Kreeger Award for Scholarship in Art History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT 2005 to Pres. Assistant Director and Senior Instructor, Master of Humanities and Master of Social Science Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Denver Duties: Oversee graduate program administration, including advising students, teaching two graduate seminars/semester, developing program publicity, curriculum development, web design and maintenance Courses: Graduate Seminars: Imperial Designs: Art and Power in Athens and Rome; Visual Arts: Interpretations and Contexts; Humanities Methods and Texts (program core curriculum); Directed Readings and Research in Interdisciplinary Humanities (program core curriculum); Sex, Gender, and Visual Representation; The City in History and Theory; Roman Identities: Culture and Identity in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Thought; Humanistic Impulse; Beauty Power and the Sacred; Art of Empire; and Caves to Cathedrals to Contemporary Art. 2005 Spring Instructor, Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Program and Department of Architecture, University of Colorado, Denver Courses: Graduate seminar : Imperial Designs: Art and Power in Classical Athens and Rome; Graduate lecture course: History of Architecture I 2001 to 2004 James F. Ruffin Endowed Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, (Asst. Prof.) Department of Art, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN Courses: Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome; Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece; Art and Architecture of Egypt and the Ancient Near East; Archaeological Methods; Women in the Arts in the Ancient Mediterranean; Art of Augustan Rome; Pompeii; Greek and Roman Sculpture; Cities and Sanctuaries of the Classical World; Search for Values in Light of Ancient History and Religion (core curriculum interdisciplinary Humanities course) 2000-2001 Visiting Asst. Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Art History, Rice University, Houston, TX Courses: Introduction to Art History, Greek Art and Architecture, Roman Art and Architecture, Roman Architecture. 2000 Summer Visiting Asst. Professor, Southern Methodist University, Summer Study Abroad Program, Italy Courses: five-week Art History course on art of Italy from the Classical to Baroque 2000 Spring Haakon Teaching Fellow (Asst Professor), Div. of Art History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Courses: graduate seminar: Women and Patronage in the Classical World, and undergraduate lecture course: Greek and Roman Sculpture 1997-1999 Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History, and the University Extension Program Courses: Introduction to the Visual Arts 1994-1995 Research Assistant for Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History. Research for John R. Clarke. Assisted research
and performed editorial duties for book, Looking at Lovemaking, numerous articles, and public lectures; systematized photograph and slide collection. 1996-1991 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History. ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS "Maternal Space in Imperial Rome," in Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome, edd. Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, Spring 2010. A New Face to Patronage: The Empress Livia and the Politics of Building in Early Imperial Rome. The Proceedings of the International Association of Linguistics and Behavioral Sciences. November 2004. (nonrefereed) Matronly Patrons in the Early Roman Empire: the Case of Salvia Postuma, in Women s Influence on Culture in Antiquity. Ed. Fiona McHardy and Eiranne Marshall (Routledge Press, 2004) 75-91. Engendering Space: Octavia s Portico in Rome. Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art 4 (Fall 2003) 13-33. BOOK REVIEWS Book review of Natalie Boymel Kampen, Family Fictions in Roman Art, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009; and Caroline Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007 for Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art 10 (Fall 2009). Book review of Personification in the Greek World: From Antiquity to Byzantium. Edd. E. Stafford and J. Herrin (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Press, 2005) for Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art 7 (Fall 2006). Book review of The Art of Ancient Spectacle. Edd. Bettina Bergmann and Christine Kondoleon (NGA, Yale Univ. Press, 1999) for Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art 2 (Fall 2001) 136-42. BOOKS AND ARTICLES IN PREPARATION Women Building Rome: Gender and the Built Environment in the Early Roman Empire. A book-length study of women s architectural patronage in early imperial Rome. Rethinking Eumachia s Building: Elite Women and Urban Space in Pompeii. 35 page ms. submitted Greece and Rome (Fall 2006). The Power of the Past in Claudian Architecture. An article-length study of antiquarianism in the architecture of the Roman emperor Claudius. Memory, Rhetoric, and the Design of Libraries in the Roman World. An article-length study positing a metaphorical relationship between the way Romans practiced mnemonic strategies and the architectural design of libraries in classical antiquity PUBLIC LECTURES
2009 January Women Building Rome: Reconsidering the Porticus of Livia and Gender in Rome, accepted for a joint session of the Annual meetings of the American Philological Association and Archaeological Institute of America and Women s Classical Caucus in Philadelphia (refereed conference paper) 2008 December "Women, Agency, and Public Patronage." Invited to lead a seminar of faculty at the University of Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities, Lawrence, Kansas. 2007 July Dynastic Designs: Women, Architecture and Patronage in Imperial Rome. Second International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain (refereed conference paper) 2005 September The Empress Agrippina and the Politics of Architectural Patronage in Early Imperial Rome. 14 th Annual Conference of the Women s History Network, Southampton Institute, Southampton, UK (refereed conference paper) 2004 November A New Face to Patronage: The Empress Livia and the Politics of Building in Early Imperial Rome. International Academy of Linguistics, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Annual Meeting, Cancun, Mexico (refereed conference paper) 2002 April Building Monarchy: Poisoned Mushrooms, Incest, and Agrippina s Temple for the Divine Claudius. First Annual Ruffin Lecture, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN 2001 March Eumachia s Building in Pompeii: Civic Space for a Woman s Face. Rhodes College, Memphis, TN 2001 January Antiquarianism and Political Legitimacy in Claudian Architecture. Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meetings, San Diego, CA (refereed conference paper) 2000 February "Room of her own?: Women, Architectural Patronage, and Feminine Concerns in the Early Roman Empire." Haakon Lecture, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University 1999 March Engendering spaces: Octavia s portico in Rome. Conference: Women Art Patrons and Collectors: Past and Present, New York Public Library, New York, NY (refereed conference paper) 1999 February Building Identities: Architectural Patronage and Women in the Early Roman Empire. Archaeological Institute of America, Central Texas Society, Austin (invited lecture) 1998 September Women and Architectural Patronage. Alien Influences in the City. An Alien Influence: Women s Role in Creating Culture, Dept. of Ancient History and Classics, University of Exeter, England (refereed conference paper) 1998 December Never out of sight: The case of Eumachia in Pompeii. Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meetings, Washington D.C. (refereed conference paper)
1997 March Women as Architectural Patrons: The Case of Salvia Postuma. Midwest Art Historical Society, Annual Conference, Dallas Texas (refereed conference paper) 1996 April Salvia Postuma s Arch of the Sergii. Mediterranean Interactions II. Yale University, New Haven, CT (refereed conference paper) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2006 Fall Advisory Board Member, Public Humanities Center proposal to Dean of CLAS 2006 October Session Chair, Memory be damned: The Obliteration of Monuments in Rome from Antiquity to the Modern Era, Conference: Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory in the Visual Arts, Organized by the WAPACC and Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art, October 27-29, 2006, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 2002-2004. President of the Mid-south chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America 2002 April Session Chair, Everything Old is New Again.Reuse of the Past in the Buildings of Classical Antiquity, Annual Meetings, Society of Architectural Historians, Richmond, VA EXCAVATION EXPERIENCE 1995-1996, 2000 Trench Supervisor, Mugello Valley Archaeological Project at Poggio Colla (Etruscan site), Vicchio, Italy. Director: P. Gregory Warden. MUSEUM EMPLOYMENT 1998-99 Curatorial Assistant, San Antonio Museum of Art. Wrote entries on ancient sculpture for the San Antonio Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections; edited and contributed to the museum s sculpture catalogue written by C. Vermeule. 1989-1991 Archives Technician, Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C. Processed and catalogued collections for on-line catalog system; produced finding guide for archival collections covering WPA art projects; implemented basic conservation and preservation techniques for archival collections; provided reference services to patrons. LANGUAGES Reading Proficiency: Italian, French, German, Latin, ancient Greek, Spanish Speaking Proficiency: Italian PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS 2002-2004 President, Archaeological Institute of America, Mid-south chapter (Memphis, TN) 1991-Present Member, Archaeological Institute of America 1991-Present Member, College Art Association 1996-Present Member, Society of Architectural Historians 2006-Present Women s Classical Caucus 2004-Present Member, Midwest Art Historical Society 2003-2005 Member, American Association of University Women 1996-1999 Secretary, Archaeological Institute of America, Austin and Central Texas Society 1994 President, Art History Graduate Student Association, University of Texas, Austin
REFERENCES: Prof. Jana Everett, Chair, Department of Political Science, UCD Email: jana.everett@ucdenver.edu Telephone: 303-556-3513 Prof. Cate Wiley, Department of English, UCD Email: catherine.wiley@ucdenver.edu Telephone: 303-556-8382 Prof. Candice Shelby, Chair, Department of Philosophy, UCD Email: Candice.shelby@ucdenver.edu Telephone: 303-556-3223 Prof. Marjorie Levine-Clark, Chair, Department of History, UCD Email: Marjorie.levine-clark@ucdenver.edu Telephone: 303-556-2896