Judith Barringer is an American classical archaeologist and Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

. She studies the archaeology,

art Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...

and culture of

ancient Greece Ancient Greece () was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically r ...

from the Archaic to

Hellenistic period In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...

Career

Barringer received her BA from

George Washington University The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by ...

, and her MA, MPhil and PhD from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. She has held positions at

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

, the

State University of New York The State University of New York (SUNY ) is a system of Public education, public colleges and universities in the New York (state), State of New York. It is one of the List of largest universities and university networks by enrollment, larges ...

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...

Trinity College Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales * Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District ...

, and

Middlebury College Middlebury College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalists, Middlebury w ...

. She joined the

in 2005, where she is currently holds the position of Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology. Barringer was the 2007 Gertrude Smith Professor at the

American School of Classical Studies at Athens The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA; ) is one of 19 foreign archaeological institutes in Athens, Greece. It is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). CAORC is a private not-for-profit federat ...

. From 2011 to 2012, she was a senior fellow at the ''Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften'' in Vienna, and in 2012 the RD Milns Visiting Professor at the

University of Queensland The University of Queensland is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone ...

. From 2013 to 2015 she held a Marie Curie Fellowship in

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

. She serves on the editorial board of the ''Journal of Greek Archaeology.'' Her 2014 book ''The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece'' won the 2016

PROSE Award The PROSE Awards (where ''PROSE'' is an abbreviation for "professional and scholarly excellence") are presented by the Association of American Publishers' (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division. Presented since 1976, the award ...

for Textbook, Humanities, and has been described as an "outstanding book" and "authoritative and well written".

Selected publications

* Barringer, J. 2014. ''The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece.'' Cambridge'':'' Cambridge University Press. * Barringer, J. 2008. ''Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece.'' Cambridge'':'' Cambridge University Press. * Barringer, J. 2001. ''The Hunt in Ancient Greece.'' The Johns Hopkins University Press. * Barringer, J. 1995. ''Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art.'' Ann Arbor.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barringer, Judith Living people Academics of the University of Edinburgh Classical archaeologists Year of birth missing (living people) American women archaeologists George Washington University alumni Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Yale University faculty Bard College faculty Middlebury College faculty