Ann C. Gunter is an art historian and Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the

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. Her work focuses on

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and

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of the ancient Near East and neighboring parts of the eastern Mediterranean.

Education

Gunter attended

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United Sta ...

, graduating magna cum laude in 1973. She went on to

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

where she earned an M.A. (1975), M.Phil. (1976) and Ph.D. (1980).

Career

Gunter joined the

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Freer and

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galleries in 1987 as Assistant Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art, and in 1992 was appointed Associate Curator. She was also a visiting assistant professor at

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and the

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. She was Director of the American Research Institute in Turkey at Ankara and an adjunct associate professor in Near Eastern Studies at

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. Gunter became Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Freer and Sackler in 2004 and served until 2008, while also serving as Head of Scholarly Publications and Programs. In 2008 she joined

as Professor of Art History, Classics, and in the Humanities.

Works

* ''Greek Art and the Orient'' (

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, 2009) * "Beyond 'Orientalizing': Encounters among Cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean," in ''Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age'', eds. J. Aruz, S. B. Graff, and Y. Rakic (

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and

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, 2014) * "Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean" in ''Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art'', eds. B. A. Brown and M. H. Feldman (DeGruyter, 2014) * "The Etruscans, Greek Art, and the Near East" in ''A Companion to the Etruscans'', eds. S. Bell and A. Carpino ( John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016)

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