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Lynn Roller Professor, Art History Program leroller@ucdavis.edu |
Member of the UC Davis faculty since 1977
Teaching Interests
Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman art and archaeology; Classical Civilization: the Near East and Early Greece; Greek language and literature, especially Homer, Herodotos, Thucydides, tragedy; Greek religion
Research Interests
Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman art and archaeology; relations between the Greek world and the ancient Near East, especially Anatolia; ancient religion
Books
Gordion Special Studies 1. The Non-verbal Graffiti, Dipinti, and Stamps(University Museum Monograph, University of Pennsylvania, 1987).
In Search of God the Mother: the Cult of Anatolian Cybele (University of California Press, 1999).
Recent Publications
"A Phrygian Sculptural Identity? Evidence from Early Phrygian Drawings in Iron Age Gordion," Proceedings of the Fifth Anatolian Iron Ages Symposium. (British Institute of Archaeology, Ankara, 2005) pp. 125-130.
"The Mother Goddess between Thrace and Phrygia," Thracia 15 (Sofia 2003) 161-167.
"A Latin Epitaph from Gordion," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 141 (2002) 215-220; co-authored with Andrew Goldman.
"The Anatolian Cult of Sabazios," Ancient Journeys: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Numa Lane, http://www.stoa.org/lane/.
"The Phrygian Mother Goddess and her Thracian Connections," Thrace and the Aegean. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Thracology, ed. A. Fol (Sofia 2002) 683-694.
"The Origin of Non-Greek Letters in the Phrygian Alphabet: the Evidence from Gordion," The Asia Minor Connexion, ed. Yoël Arbeitman. Orbis Supplementa 10 (2000): 195-204.
"Early Phrygian Drawings from Gordion and the Elements of Phrygian Artistic Style," Anatolian Studies 49 (1999) 1-10.
"The Ideology of the Eunuch Priest," Gender & History 9 (1997): 542-559.
Idem, reprinted in Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean, ed. Maria Wyke (Blackwells, 1998): 118-135.
"Reflections on the Mother of the Gods in Attic Tragedy," Cybele, Attis, and Related Cults. Essays in Memory of M. J. Vermaseren, ed. E. N. Lane (Leiden 1996): 305-322.
Education
University of Pennsylvania, Ph. D., 1977 degree in Classical Archaeology
Bryn Mawr College, M. A., 1973 degree in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
American School of Classical Studies, member, 1969-70
Bryn Mawr College, A. B. cum laude, 1969 degree in Greek
Grants & Fellowships; Honors & Awards
Wiseman Book Prize for outstanding publication in the field of Mediterranean archaeology, given by the Archaeological Institute of America, January 2002, for In Search of God the Mother (University of California Press, 1999)
Award for outstanding article on a topic related to women and gender, given by the Women's Classical Caucus, American Philological Association, January 1998
Senior Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1992-93
Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1992-93
Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford, spring 1993
Research Grant, American Council of Learned Societies, 1992
Fellow, Davis Humanities Institute, University of California, Davis, 1989-90
Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981-85
Visiting Scholar, American Academy at Rome, fall 1986
Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 1983
Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, 1979, 1980, 1983