Forthcoming.

• Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University)
  • Bahrani is the Edith Porada Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology. Her research and teaching cover a range of topics around ancient Mesopotamia and the Eastern Mediterranean world in antiquity including: image ontologies and philosophies of representation, mimesis, iconoclasm, monuments, antiquarianism and ancient practices of preservation and restoration, concepts of time and landscape.
• John R. Clarke (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Clarke is the Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor of Fine Arts, teaching in the Department of Art and Art History. His teaching, research, and publications focus on ancient Roman art, art-historical methodology, and contemporary art. Clarke has ten books, and 128 essays, articles, and reviews to his credit. Currently, Clarke is co-director of the Oplontis Project, working, since 2005, to complete the study, excavation, and publication of two Roman villas (“A” and “B”) buried by Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
• Claire Bosc-Tiessé (Clark Art Institute)
  • Bosc-Tiessé is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. Her research interests pertain to creation in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia from the thirteenth century onwards. She has published Les Îles de la mémoire: Fabrique des images et écriture de l'histoire dans les églises du lac Tana, Éthiopie, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle; Peintures sacrées d’Éthiopie: Collection de la mission Dakar-Djibouti with A. Wion, and Lalibela: Site rupestre chrétien d'Éthiopie with M.-L. Derat. More broadly, her work addresses the modalities of writing a history of the arts in Africa before the twentieth century and the issues at stake.
• Milette Gaifman (Yale University)
  • Gaifman is a scholar of ancient art and archaeology, focusing primarily on Greek art of the Archaic and Classical periods. Her research interests include the interaction between visual culture and religion, the variety of forms in the arts of antiquity (from the naturalistic to the non-figural), the interactive traits of various artistic media, and the reception of Greek art in later periods. Her current book project is the revised and expanded version of the Louise Smith Bross Lectures that she delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago in May 2018. The forthcoming volume titled Classification and the History of Greek Art and Architecture examines how classifications and taxonomies shape our understanding of Greek art and architecture in the modern era.
• Mary Miller (Getty Research Institute)
  • Miller is the Director of the Getty Research Institute as well as Sterling Professor Emeritus of History of Art and former dean of Yale College. A specialist of the art of the ancient New World, Miller is currently focusing her work on the Maya city of Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Maya figurines, and the history of the market in pre-Hispanic art, particularly in California. For her work on the art of ancient Mexico and the Maya, Miller has won national recognition including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Howard Lamar Prize of the Association of Yale Alumni for outstanding service by a faculty member.  In April and May 2010, she delivered the A W Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art, and she delivered the Slade Lectures at Cambridge University during the academic year 2014–2015.