Classics Department - Faculty

One of this country’s leading scholars of ancient Greek art, Jeffrey M. Hurwit received a combined A.B.-M.A. degree in Classical Languages and Literatures from Brown University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from Yale University in 1975. He taught at Yale from 1975 to 1980, when he became assistant professor of Art History at the University of Oregon. He was promoted to associate professor in 1984, and to full professor in 1990. He has held a co-appointment in the Classics Department since 1987.

The recipient of many prestigious awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987-88, Professor Hurwit is the author of numerous works on the art and civilization of Archaic and Classical Greece. Among the more influential of his publications are the articles “Reading the Chigi Vase” [Hesperia 71 (2002), 1-22] and "The Kritios Boy: Discovery, Reconstruction, and Date" [American Journal of Archaeology 93 (1989), 41-80], and his books The Art and Culture of Early Greece (Cornell University Press, 1985,) The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles (Cambridge University Press 2004). He is also co-editor of (and a contributor to) a collection of essays entitled Periklean Athens and its Legacy (University of Texas Press 2005).

Professor Hurwit has frequently studied in Greece and Italy, and was twice selected to teach in the Northwest Council for Study Abroad program in Siena. A popular lecturer, he has spoken widely across the United States and Canada on his research. In 2000-2001 he was appointed to the Martha S. Joukowsky Lectureship for the Archaeological Institute of America, and in 2003 became the inaugural Dorothy Burr Thompson Memorial Lecturer at University of British Columbia. He has been a member of the editorial board of the College Art Association’s Art Bulletin and currently serves on the Publications Committee of the Getty Research Institute.

	Faculty


	P.Lowell Bowditch Cristina G. Calhoon Jeffrey M. Hurwit Mary K. Jaeger John Nicols Steven Shankman Malcolm Wilson


	Dr. Hurwit 237B Lawrence Hall Phone 541-346-3652. E-mail: jhurwit@uoregon.edu





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