Carol Lawton, professor of art history, whose field of interest is ancient Greek sculpture, spends each summer in Athens pursuing her research, last year under a grant from the Solow Art and Architecture Foundation.
She is working on the publication of Greek and Roman votive reliefs from the excavation of the Athenian Agora, for which she recently received a Kress Foundation publication grant, and on publication of the architectural sculpture from the Classical Temple of Hera at the Argive Heraion, over 1,000 fragments of which are housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
In the 2000-2001 academic year, she participated in the Seminar on Religion and Society in the Ancient World at the University of Virginia, where she gave a talk titled "Votive Reliefs and Popular Religion in Ancient Athens" and a seminar for graduate students and faculty on "The Origin and Nature of Greek Votives." She also lectured on "Popular Cult in Ancient Athens: The Evidence of the Votive Reliefs" at Cornell University and on "Athenian Anti-Macedonian Sentiment and Democratic Ideology in Attic Document Reliefs" at the Conference on the Macedonians in Athens, 323-220 B.C. at the University of Athens.
In the Spring Term 2001, she offered a new course, Women in Classical Antiquity, that was cross-listed in art history, classics, and gender studies. She currently is co-teaching, with Frank Lewis, director of exhibitions and curator of the Wriston Art Center Galleries, an Exhibition Seminar, Portraits and Power, in which students are gaining firsthand experience in the preparation of an exhibition and its accompanying literature by working with new acquisitions to Lawrence's Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins.