S. Rebecca Martin
[email protected]
CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS
Boston University, Asst. Prof. of Greek Art and Architecture, History of Art & Architecture, 2011Southeast Missouri State University, Asst. Prof. of Art History, Dept. of Art, 2009-11
North Central University, Adjunct Prof. of Art History, Dept. of Arts and Sciences, 2008
University of California, Berkeley, Lecturer, History of Art, 2007-8
Courses Taught at Boston University
Greek Art Survey; Greek Painted Pottery; Classical Greek Art and Architecture; the Greek Conception
of the Known World; Intolerance in Antiquity; Western Art Survey (Ancient-Medieval).
EDUCATION
Ph.D. – University of California, Berkeley, History of Art, 2007
“‘Hellenization’ and Southern Phoenicia: Reconsidering the Impact of Greece before Alexander”
Committee: Andrew Stewart (chair), Erich Gruen, Christopher Hallett, and Ilan Sharon
MA – University of California, Berkeley, History of Art, 2000
“The Apollo Sauroktonos of Praxiteles”
Committee: Andrew Stewart (chair), Patricia Berger, Anne Wagner, and Crawford Greenewalt
BA – Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, Ancient Studies, 1997
College Year in Athens, Athens, Greece, 1995
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1992-4
AWARDS AND HONORS
Boston University Center for the Humanities Junior Fellowship, 2013-14
Center for Hellenic Studies Fellow, 2013-14 (declined)
Grants and Research Funding Committee Award, Southeast Missouri State University, 2011-12
Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund Writing Grant, 2005-6
Getty Collaborative Research Grant for project: “Hellenization at Dor: Acculturation and Resistance”
(Principal Investigator: Andrew F. Stewart), 2003-5
Samuel H. Kress Fellowship (W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research), 2003-4
Education and Cultural Affairs Junior Research Fellow (Albright Institute), 2003-4 (declined)
U.C. Berkeley History of Art Fellowships, 1997-2004
Smith College Fellowship for Graduate Studies, 1997-98
PUBLICATIONS
S.M. Langin-Hooper, S. Rebecca Martin, and Mehmet Önal (with R. Molholt), “Zeugma as the
Provenance of 12 Mosaic Fragments at Bowling Green State University,” Journal of Roman
Archaeology vol. 26 (2013): 1-17 (in press).
S. Rebecca Martin, “Review of Vadim Jigoulov, The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: Being
a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires,” Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org]
(2012).
Y. Shalev and S. Rebecca Martin, “Crisis as Opportunity: Phoenician Urban Renewal after the
Babylonians,” in J. Elayi, ed., Transeuphratène vol. 41 (December 2011): 81-100.
J. Nitschke, S. Rebecca Martin, and Y. Shalev, “Between Carmel and the Sea, Tel Dor: The Late
Periods,” Near Eastern Archaeology vol. 74.3 (2011): 132-54.
S. Rebecca Martin, “Review of L. Allen, Persian Empire,” Near Eastern Archaeology vol. 73.1
(March 2010): 61-2.
S. Rebecca Martin and A. Stewart, “Treasure in the Trash: The ‘Adonis of Dor’,” Biblical
Archaeology Review (Nov/Dec 2009): 36-41.
S. Rebecca Martin, “Ritual Deposition and Coroplastic Objects from Archaeological Contexts in Tel
Dor, Israel,” Annual Newsletter of the Coroplastic Studies Interest Group 1 (2009): 4.
S. Rebecca Martin, “Attic Pottery in Palestine,” Near Eastern Archaeology vol. 68: 1-2 (March-June
2005): 24-5.
A. Stewart and S. Rebecca Martin, “Attic Imported Pottery at Tel Dor, Israel: An Overview,” Bulletin
of the American Schools of Oriental Research vol. 337 (February 2005): 79-94.
A. Stewart and S. Rebecca Martin, “Hellenistic Discoveries at Tel Dor (Israel),” Hesperia vol. 72.2
(June 2003): 121-45.
Under Review
“Craft Identity: Mosaics in the Hellenistic East,” in P. Schultz and K. Seaman, eds., Artists and
Artistry in Ancient Greece (provisional title), submitted by editors to Cambridge University Press.
“Representation and Ethnicity,” in J. McInerney, ed., Blackwell Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient
Mediterranean, submitted to editor.
“‘East Greek’ and Greek Imported Pottery of the First Millennium B.C.E.,” in D. Ben-Shlomo, ed.,
The Smithsonian Institute Excavations at Tell Jemmeh, Final Report (provisional title), submitted
to editor.
“From the East to Greece and Back Again: Terracotta Gorgon Masks in a Phoenician Context,” in A.
Lemaire, ed., Phéniciens d'Orient et d'Occident (Essays in Honor of J. Elayi, provisional title),
submitted to editor.
“East Greek Pottery from Tel Dor, Area G,” in E. Stern, et al., eds., Excavations at Tel Dor; Final
Report, Area G (Jerusalem: Hebrew University), with Y. Shalev, submitted to editor.
“Ethnicity and Greek Art History in Theory and Practice” (working title) in L. Nevett, ed., Theory in
Ancient Greek Archaeology: Manipulating Material Culture in the First Millennium BCE
(Michigan: University of Michigan Press), submitted to editor.
PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES
Academic Sessions Created and Chaired
Phoenicians and the Mediterranean with J. Nitschke, Annual Meeting of the American Schools of
Oriental Research, New Orleans, November 2009.
Persian Levant, Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2004-6:
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Recent Archaeological Approaches, San Antonio, November 2004.
The Persian Levant in Transition, Philadelphia, November 2005.
Culture-Contact in the Persian Levant, Washington, D.C., November 2006.
Conference and Invited Papers
“Raising an Imported Cup: A Reassessment of Greek Pottery from Persian Period Tells,” paper
accepted for the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, November 2013.
“The Forging of Doros: Myth and Coin Imagery from a Phoenician Port,” Oxford Centre for Phoenician
and Punic Studies Workshop, Merton College, Oxford, April 2013.
“Representation, Race, and Ethnicity: Towards a Methodology,” Theory in (Ancient) Greek Archaeology
Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 2012.
“Classical Art and the Representation of Race and Ethnicity,” keynote address, Annual Undergraduate
Art History Conference: New Perspectives in Material Culture, Bowling Green State University,
March 2012.
“Ethnicity and Representation,” Conference on Ethnicity in the World of the Ancient Mediterranean,
University of Pennsylvania, January 2012.
“Tel Dor Excavation Project, 2004-2011: The Hellenistic and Roman Levels” with J. Nitschke,
Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Francisco, November 2011.
“Tel Dor Excavation Project, 2004-2010: The Hellenistic and Roman Levels” with J. Nitschke, Annual
Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Antonio, January 2011.
“Crisis as Opportunity: Phoenician Urban Renewal after the Babylonians” with Y. Shalev, VIIIe Colloque
International sur la Transeuphratène à l’époque perse: crises et autres difficultés, Paris, France, April
2010.
“Multiculturalism at the Crossroads: Problems with Defining a Phoenician Art,” Annual Meeting of
the College Art Association, Chicago, February 2010.
“Urban Identity in Phoenicia: ‘Hippodamian’ versus ‘Contour’ Planning,” Annual Meeting of the
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Minneapolis, April 2009.
“From ‘Dor’ to ‘Doros’: A New Approach to the Material Culture of the Persian Period,” Annual
Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Diego, November 2007.
“Hellenistic Opus Vermiculatum Mosaics: Recent Discoveries and Reflections from the Periphery,”
invited lecture, Noon Colloquium Series, Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean
Archaeology, U.C. Berkeley, October 2007.
“Identifying and Interpreting the Favissae of Persian Period Palestine, or When it’s Not Just another
Pit,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Washington, D.C., November 2006.
“Cypriot Art and the Interpretation of Foreign Influence on Cult in the Southern Levant,” Annual
Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Washington, D.C., November 2006.
“From the Near East to Greece and Back Again: The (Re)appearance of the Gorgon in an ‘Archaic’
Phoenician Context,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Montréal,
Quebec, January 2006.
“High Art from the Periphery: Hellenistic Mosaics in the Southern Levant,” Annual Meeting of
the American Schools of Oriental Research, Philadelphia, November 2005.
“An Opus Vermiculatum Mosaic from Hellenistic Dor,” Thirtieth Archaeological Conference of the
Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel, April 2004.
“Pergamon and Athens in Reciprocation,” Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians,
Savannah, April 2002.
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