Mentor Areas
Professor Kuttner’s research and teaching interests lie in Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique socio-political history, visual language, and material culture. She also advises projects in the engagement of post-ancient cultures with Greco-Roman arts from the Middle Ages to the present day. Long interested in luxury arts as domestic display, and public sculptural decoration and architectural programming, she has in the last years expanded research to include landscape architecture, painting, the character of the Roman domus and villa, and relations between Greco-Roman texts, art and monuments. Right now she is also thinking hard about object-based art history, archaeology and theory. In addition, she has team-taught and advised about the great Iran-based empires from the 5th c BCE - 8th c CE, and about early Islamic art.
Description:
Students can propose an independent study of some kind or ask for informal input on a project for another course or the student's private projects (including design-based ones). They may be able to help out with Prof. Kuttner's web-based as well as print-based searches for information, bibliography and images, web-site appraisal, or literature review. Occasionally there may be funds to reward tasks, such as for scanning print material and images, or manipulating images.
Preferred Qualifications
Specific projects will be decided upon based on the student's interests and background. Lively curiosity and the skills of observation and attention to detail are desirable. Command of languages other than English, or digital humanities and design skills, can be useful for specific projects.
Details:
Preferred Student Year
First-year, Second-Year, Junior, Senior
Academic Term
Fall, Spring, Summer
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.Paid
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.