HEATHER ELIZABETH GROSSMAN
Curriculum Vitae
University of Illinois at Chicago
(312) 355-0616
Department of the Art History (M/C 201)
hgrossma@uic.edu
935 W. Harrison Street
Office: 208B Henry Hall
Chicago, IL 60607
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, History of Art
• Ph.D. December, 2004
• Ph.D. Thesis title: “Building Identity: Architecture as Evidence of Intercultural
Interaction between Byzantines and Latins in Medieval Greece”
• M.A., August, 2001
• Thesis title: “Imaging the Easts: Pascal and Jean Sébahs’ Photographs of Istanbul and
Athens in the Archives of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology”
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, History of Art and Architecture, and Old World
Archaeology and Art (double major)
• B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, May, 1995
University College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
• Junior Year Abroad, 1993-94
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellowship, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton
University, Spring, 2008
Senior Fellowship, Anatolian Civilizations Institute (now RCAC), Koç University, Istanbul,
Turkey, 2005-6
Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund Scholarship, The Pittsburgh Foundation, 2003-4
Gorham P. Stevens Advanced Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens,
2000-2001
Olivia James Traveling Fellowship, Archaeological Institute of America, 1999-2000
Fulbright Student Grant to Greece, 1999-2000 (declined in favor of the Olivia James
Traveling Fellowship, as above)
University of Pennsylvania Awards:
Chimicles Fellowship in the Teaching of Writing, 2002-3
School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Award, 2001-2
Dean’s Scholar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2001
Société Générale Research Fellowship, French Institute for Culture and Technology, 1999
University Fellowship, 1995-6
Brown University Awards:
Ann Belsky Moranis Prize for Outstanding Major, History of Art and Architecture, 1995
Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantship, 1994
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PUBLICATIONS
“Twisted Columns and Train Sheds: Photography of Monuments and Modernization in the Nineteenth-
Century Mediterranean.” In progress. [to be submitted to Art Bulletin, Fall, 2008].
“Sébah’s Panoramas of Istanbul.” In progress [to be submitted to History of Photography,Fall, 2008].
Building Identity: Architecture and Cultural Interaction in a Medieval Mediterranean Society.
[Forthcoming book project]
Review of France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades, edited by
Daniel H. Weiss and Lisa Mahoney. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. The
Medieval Review (online, forthcoming).
“Syncretism Made Concrete: The Case for a Hybrid Moreote Architecture in Post-Fourth
Crusade Greece,” in Archaeology in Architecture: Papers in Honor of Cecil L. Striker, edited by
Deborah Deliyannis and Judson Emerick. Mainz: Ph. von Zabern, 2005, 65-73.
“Architectural Sculpture,” in Sharon Gerstel, Mark Munn, Heather E. Grossman, Ethne Barnes,
Arthur H. Rohn and Machiel Kiel, “Panakton: Preliminary Report on a Late Medieval Village,”
Hesperia 72 (April-June 2003): 137-234 (189-195).
CONFERENCE PAPERS, SESSIONS CHAIRED AND INVITED LECTURES
“Identity and Art.” Session Chair. Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada, October 13, 2007.
“Historiography and Hybridity: Western Medieval and Byzantine Architectural Canons and the
Medieval Mediterranean.” Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO,
November 11, 2006.
“Twisted Columns and Train Sheds: Photography of Monuments and Modernization in the
Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean.” Architecture Research Seminar, Cambridge University,
Cambridge, UK, March 9, 2006.
“Monuments, Images and Modernization: The Photographic Archive of Pascal and Jean-Pascal Sébah at
the Deutches Archaiologisches Institut, Istanbul.” Anatolian Civilizations Institute (now RCAC), Koç
University, Istanbul, Turkey, November 24, 2005.
“Historiography and Style in Defining Hybridity in the Frankish-period Architecture of the
Medieval Morea.” A Mosaic of Cultures: Artistic Interactions in Medieval Europe, Byzantium
and the Islamic World, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, March 19, 2005.
“Archaeology Through the Lens: Nineteenth-Century Photography, Archaeology and Nation
Building.” The 105
th
Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco,
CA, January 5, 2004.
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"Returning the Gaze: Archaeology and National Identity in the Sébahs’ Photographs of Istanbul
and Athens," The Philadelphia Symposium, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA,
March 22, 2003. (Sole nominee from the History of Art Department of the University of
Pennsylvania.)
“A New Group of Middle Byzantine Architectural Sculpture from Panakton (Boeotia),”
Byzantine Studies Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 4, 2002.
“Generation to Generation: The Creation of Cultural Continuity,” Session Chair and Co-
Organizer, Second Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Symposium: “Time and Space, Memory
and Place,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2, 2002.
“Construction Workshops and Artistic Ateliers of the Frankish-Period (Thirteenth Century C.E.)
Architecture of Greece,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 6, 2002.
“Building Identity: The Origins and Diffusion of Architectural Plans and Ornament in Frankish-
Period Greece,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October
28, 2000.
"Day 36: A Forum on the Future of Kosovo and the Balkans," Co-Chair, ARTH/AAMW Ad Hoc
Committee on Kosovo, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 April, 1999
•Co-organized University- and city-wide forum on then-current military events in the Balkans, including
panelists from the United States Department of State, national-level non-governmental policy groups
and University of Pennsylvania faculty, and introduced the forum program and committee's goals
“Spotlight” Lectures, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October, 1996 to
May, 1998. Lectures on Western medieval, Islamic, nineteenth-century and contemporary art
objects.
TEACHING AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005-Present
• Search Committee Member, Architectural Historian and Design Historian positions, 2006-7
• Executive Committee Member, 2006-7
• Masters Theses Supervised: Emily Scott (’08)
• Supervised masters qualifying papers: Nicole Oppenheim (’05), Brittan Harris (’07)
• Faculty Adviser to the Art History Graduate Student Association, 2006-present
New courses:
• “Interactions -- Cultures Across the Mediterranean” (Fall, 2007)
• “Medieval Art and Architecture” (Spring, 2007)
• “Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture and Art” (Fall, 2006)
• “Constantinople/Istanbul” (Fall, 2006)
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Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004-2005
• Educational Policy Committee member, Spring, 2005
New Courses:
• “Islamic Architecture and Art,” (Spring, 2005)
• “The Medieval Mediterranean World,” (Spring, 2005)
• “Medieval Architecture,” (Fall, 2004)
• “Responding to Medieval Architecture and Its Arts,” (Fall, 2004)
Lecturer, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October – November, 2003
• “Islamic Empires and their Architectural Traditions”
Instructor, University of Pennsylvania, College of General Studies
• “Introduction to the History of Art Before 1450,” Spring, 2004 and Summer, 2003
• “Medieval Architecture, ” Fall, 2003
• “Islamic Architecture Through the Ages,” Spring, 2003 (short-duration course)
Transfer Credit Officer, University of Pennsylvania, History of Art Department, 2003-4
Chimicles Writing Fellow and Instructor, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-3
• Developed and taught writing intensive, content-based course
Writing Consultant, University of Pennsylvania Writing Center, Fall, 2001 to 2002
Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, History of Art Department
• “Introduction to the History of Art 1450 to the Present,” Spring, 1999
• “Modern Architecture,” Spring, 1997
• "Introduction to the History of Art pre-1450," Fall, 1996
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
Archaeologist/Field Director, Princeton University Menoikeion Research Project, Serres,
Greece, Summer, 2006
• Taught students in archaeological recording, measuring and other field survey techniques
in conjunction with the seminar run by Dr. Nikolas Bakirtzis
• Helped conduct preliminary exploration of medieval sites in Mt. Menoikeion valley
• Participated in and observed daily activities of a functioning female monastery
Trench Supervisor, American School of Classical Studies Corinth Excavations, Corinth,
Greece, Summer, 2000
• Worked with Guy Sanders
• Supervised excavation of trench in a late Roman context
Archaeologist/Medieval Sculpture Specialist, Panakton Project, Panakton (Boeotia), Greece,
Summer, 1999
• Worked with Sharon Gerstel and Mark Munn
• Wrote and published catalog of medieval sculpture from previous seasons’ excavations
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Medieval Archaeologist/Photographer, University of Pennsylvania/American Academy of
Rome Jerba Survey, Jerba, Tunisia, Summer, 1998
• Worked with Renata Holod and Elizabeth Fentress
• Excavated at medieval and late Roman sites
• Project photographer
• Participated in field survey and study of materials
Surveyor, The Morea Project/MARWP, Northwestern Peloponnese, Greece, August, 1996
• Worked with Frederick Cooper
• Participated in survey of vernacular architecture
• Inked archaeological drawings
Site Supervisor, Wesleyan/Brown Monastic Archaeology Project, L'Abbaye de Saint Jean-des-
Vignes, Soissons, France, Summer, 1994 and Summer, 1996; (also excavator, Summer,
1992,)
• Worked with Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines
• Supervised excavation and recording of medieval context (abbey’s chauffoir), aided
study of research materials
• Excavated and recorded in dormitory range and gate house areas
PROFESSION AFFILIATIONS
International Center of Medieval Art, 2006-present
College Art Association, 2000-present
Society of Architectural Historians, 2000-present
Byzantine Studies Conference (now North American Byzantine Studies Association), 2000-
present
Archaeological Institute of America, 1999-present
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1999-present
Phi Beta Kappa Society, Rhode Island Chapter, 1995-present
OTHER SKILLS
Languages
French (near fluency/advanced proficiency), Modern Greek (intermediate-advanced proficiency),
Italian (basic proficiency), Turkish (basic proficiency), German (reading knowledge)
Photography
“In Passing: Greece/Turkey, India/Nepal” (Two-person show with John Henry Rice), Burrison
Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, January 13, -- February 14, 2003