Art History
Associate Professor
Art History Program Coordinator
OFFICE: Art & Communication 244F
PH: 901/678-2941
FAX: 901/678-2735
EMAIL: falbrtsn@memphis.edu

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Roman Art and Archaeology, with emphasis on sculpture (historical relief and portraiture) and painting, funerary sculpture of the Eastern provinces Greek Art and Archaeology, with emphasis on Hellenistic sculpture Early Christian Art, with emphasis on iconography

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

President and Programs Coordinator, Mississippi-Memphis Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

DEGREES

Bryn Mawr College, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Ph.D. 1980, M.A. 1977 Dissertation: The Sculptured Portraits of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (A.D. 161-180).

University of California, Irvine, History and Classical Civilization, B.A. 1974 magna cum laude.

AWARDS

Art Department, Chair’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2000, 2004), The University of Memphis, Distinguished Teaching Award (1995), College of Communication and Fine Arts, Faculty Advisor Award (1991).

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Mars and Rhea Silvia in Roman Art (“Collection Latomus”). Brussels, Éditions Latomus[in press, forthcoming 2012]      

Catalogue of the Cypriote Sculpture and Terracottas in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 20. Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 14) Jonsered, Sweden 1991.

Articles:

“The ‘Date’ on Two Dated Palmyran Reliefs,” Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie (forthcoming  in volume 5).

 “Two Unpublished Palmyrene Funerary Reliefs in North American Museums,” Syria.Archéologie, Art et  Histoire (forthcoming in 2012).

“The Creation and Dissemination of Roman Imperial Portrait Types: The Case for Marcus Aurelius Type IV,” Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 119 (2004) 259-306.

“Two Limestone Statues from Roman Egypt,” Cantor Arts Center Journal 3 (2002-2003) 1-23

“Zenodorus’s Colossus of Nero,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 46 (2001) 95-118.

“Three Palmyrene Reliefs in the Colket Collection, University of Wyoming, “ Mélanges Ernst Will vol. 3: Syria. Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie 77 (2000) 159-168.

“A Palmyrene Relief of a Roman Cavalryman,” Damaszener Mitteilungen 15 (2000) 141-153, pls. 31-32.

“A Portrait of Hadrian as Diomedes,” MUSE 27-28 (1993-94) [1996] 12-28.

“An Isiac Model for the Raising of Lazarus in Early Christian Art,” Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 38 (1995) 123-132, pls. 1-2.

“Pliny and the Vatican Laocoon,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Römische Abteilung 100 (1993) 133-140, pls. 32-33.

“The Basilica Aemilia Frieze: Religion and Politics in Late Republican Rome,” Latomus. Revue des études latines 49 (1990) 801-815, pls. 2-3.

“A Portrait of Marcus Aurelius from Syro-Palestine,” Damaszener Mitteilungen 3 (1988) 1-9, pls. 1-3.

“An Augustan Temple Represented on an Historical Relief Dating to the Time of Claudius,” American Journal of Archaeology 91 (1987) 441-458.

“Maxentian Hoards and the Mint at Ostia,” American Numismatic Society. Museum Notes 30 (1985) 124-147, pl. 40.

“A Bust of Lucius Verus in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and its Artist,” American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983) 153-163, pls. 18-20.

Submitted and Currently under Review:

The Encounter of Mars and Rhea Silvia in Roman Art “Rejoining a Palmyrene Funerary Relief”.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT

Palmyrene Sculpture in North American Museums

GRANTS

Margo Tytus Visiting Scholar, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati (2004); Samuel H. Kress Study Grant (1996), NEH-American Academy in Rome Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology (1995-1996), University of Memphis Faculty Research Grant (1995, 1992), American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid (1993), College Art Association Conference Travel Grant (1989), NEH Travel to Collections Grant (1988), American Numismatic Society Summer Seminar (1982).