MARGARET L. WOODHULL
http://www.woodhull.net

Ph.D. in Art History, December 1999. Dissertation title: Building Power: Women as Architectural Patrons During the Roman Empire, 30 BCE-54 CE
Co-advisors: John R. Clarke and Penelope J.E. Davies

Thesis title: The “Deer Hunters” Sarcophagus at the San Antonio Museum of Art: An Exploration of Carving Techniques and Style  

Summer Study Program, 1992

B.A. in Art History, May 1988. Concentration in Renaissance and Modern art.

Study abroad program sponsored by Georgetown University, Academic year 1986-1987

June 2005 to Pres. Assistant Director and Senior Instructor, Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, Denver

Courses: Graduate Seminars: Imperial Designs:Art and Power in Athens and Rome; Visual Arts: Interpretations and Contexts; Humanities Methods and Texts (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

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 : History of Architecture I

2001 to 2004.    James F. Ruffin. 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 Humanities course)

2000-2001    Visiting Art Historian and Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History, Rice
University, Houston, TX
Courses: Introduction to Art History, Roman Art and Architecture, Roman Architecture, Greek art and archaeology.

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, 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

1999-1998; and 1997, Spring    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.

“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. (non-refereed)

“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.

Review of The Art of Ancient Spectacle. Ed. Bettina Bergmann and Christine Kondoleon (NGA, Yale Univ. Press, 1999) for Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art 2 (Fall 2001) 136-42.

Women Building Rome: Gender and the Built Environment in the Early Empire. A book-length study of women’s architectural patronage in early imperial Rome.
 
“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

2007 JULY "Dynastic Designs: Women, Architecture adn 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." 14th Conference of the Women’s History Network, Southampton, England (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 (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 (job talk)

2001 January    “Antiquarianism and Political Legitimacy in Claudian Architecture.”
Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meetings, San Diego, CA (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.” Women Art Patrons and
Collectors: Past and Present, New York, NY (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 (conference paper)

1998 December    “Never out of sight: The case of Eumachia in Pompeii.” Archaeological Institute
of America, Annual Meetings, Washington D.C. (conference paper)

1997 March    “Women as Architectural Patrons: The Case of Salvia Postuma.” Midwest Art
Historical Society, Annual Conference, Dallas Texas (conference paper)

1996 April        Salvia Postuma’s Arch of the Sergii.” Mediterranean Interactions II. Yale
University, New Haven, CT (conference paper)

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

1995-1996, 2000Trench Supervisor, Mugello Valley Archaeological Project at Poggio Colla (Etruscan site), Vicchio, Italy. Director: P. Gregory Warden.

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.

Reading Proficiency: Italian, French, German, Latin, ancient Greek
Speaking Proficiency: Italian