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Heather Elizabeth Grossman
Department of Art History (M/C 201)
206 Henry Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
935 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7039
(312) 355-0616 FAX: (312) 413-2460
 hgrossma@uic.edu
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
Stahl Memorial Lecture Fund Host Recipient, International Center for Medieval Art, 2009-2010
Vice-Provost's Faculty Scholarship Support Program Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2009-10
Dean’s Research Prize, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008-9
Faculty Research Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008-9
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
PUBLICATIONS
IN PRINT:
Articles
“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): 189-195.
FORTHCOMING:
Articles
Review of Pringle, Denys. The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus, Volume 4 the Cities of Acre and Tyre with Addenda and Corrigenda to Volumes I-III. The Medieval Review (Online), Forthcoming (January, 2010).
IN PROGRESS:
Books
Building Identity: Architecture and Interaction in a Medieval Mediterranean Society. Book project, in progress, manuscript completion Summer, 2010.
Editor (with Alicia Walker), of special volume of Medieval Encounters, on means of transmission in artistic and architectural interaction in the medieval Mediterranean, Fall, 2012.
Book project on Pascal and Jean-Pascal Sébah’s photography firm, archaeology and images of ancient and medieval monuments, and nation building in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean
Articles
“Twisted Columns and Train Sheds: Pascal Sébahs’ Photography of Ancient Monuments and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Athens.” In progress, for submission to Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Winter, 2010 (article one of two on the Sébah material).
“Constructing Hybridity: Architecture, Building Practice and Group Identity in Greece After the Fourth Crusade.” In progress, for submission to Gesta Summer, 2010.
TBA article, on the Sébahs’ photographs of Istanbul, for submission to Art Bulletin, summer, 2010.
CONFERENCE PAPERS, INVITED LECTURES, AND SESSIONS CHAIRED
CONFERENCE PAPERS & FELLOWSHIP TALKS:
“Hybridity, Methexis and the Churches of the Medieval Morea.” College Art Association Annual Meeting, February 10-13, 2010.
“Methexis and the Medieval Morea: A New Conceptualization of Architectural and Cultural Interaction,” Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 10, 2009.
“Product and Process: Architectural Style and Cultural Interaction in the Medieval Morea.” Workshop, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, March 7, 2008.
“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.
“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.
“Archaeology Through the Lens: Nineteenth-Century Photography, Archaeology and Nation Building.” The 105th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, CA, January 5, 2004.
“A New Group of Middle Byzantine Architectural Sculpture from Panakton (Boeotia),” Byzantine Studies Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 4, 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.
“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.
INVITED LECTURES
“ ‘Like Frogs 'Round the Pond'?: Architectural Transmission, Style and the Churches of the Thirteenth-Century Morea,” Robert and Avis Burke Lecture Series, Department of the History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, February 26, 2010.
“Beyond Byzantium and the Latin West: Architecture, Style and Identity in Medieval Greece and the Mediterranean,” Late Antiquity and Byzantium Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 5, 2008.
“Process vs. Product: Interpreting Style and Identity in the Architecture of Crusader Greece,” Tufts University, Medford, MA, March 6, 2007.
“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.
“Building Identity: Style, Historiography and Hybridity in the Thirteenth-Century Churches of the Greek Peloponnesos,” Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, March 16, 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 (one-day symposium), Villanova University, Villanova, PA, March 19, 2005.
"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.)
SESSIONS CHAIRED
Winter Symposium on Byzantium and its Neighbors: Transmission in Art and Architectural Interactions, Co-Organizer with Professor Alicia Walker of Washington University in St. Louis. Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, February 25, 2011.
“Identity and Art.” Session Chair. Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, October 13, 2007.
“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.
TEACHING AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
TEACHING AND ACADEMIC ADVISING:
University of Illinois at Chicago, Assistant Professor, 2005-Present; Visiting Professor, 2004-5
- New Courses Developed:
- “Interactions -- Cultures Across the Mediterranean” (Mediterranean art and architecture from c1000-1500, hybridity, cultural and colonial theory; graduate-only seminar)
- “Constantinople/Istanbul” (Urbanism, architecture, image of the city – cartography, photography, allegorical images – from foundation through the twentieth century, emphasis on Byzantine and Ottoman eras; undergraduate/graduate seminar)
- “The Medieval Mediterranean City,” (Comparative regional studies, urbanism and architecture; undergraduate/graduate seminar)
- “Responding to Medieval Architecture and Its Arts,” (Societal categories and uses of architecture, predominantly in the medieval West; architect and architectural knowledge; liturgy and architecture, undergraduate/graduate seminar)
- “Medieval Architecture” (Early Christian, Byzantine and western Medieval architecture and arts in space; undergraduate lecture/survey)
- “Islamic Architecture and Art,” (from pre-Islamic through modern period; undergraduate lecture/survey)
- “Medieval Art and Architecture” (western European, undergraduate lecture/survey)
- “Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture” (undergraduate lecture/survey)
- UIC Masters Theses and Qualifying Papers (QP), Undergraduate Honors Thesis Supervised:
- M.A. Thesis: Katherine Gustafson (in progress), on English medieval pilgrim badges
- M.A. QP: Emily Scott (in progress), on Byzantine icons and their activated spaces
o M.A. QP: Donna Del Principe, on San Marco and the Cappella Palatina as palace chapels
- M.A. QP: Brittan Harris, on urbanism in medieval Palermo, Sicily
- M.A. QP: Nicole Oppenheim, on performative aspects of French Gothic sculpted programs
- Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Nicole Nelson (prize-winning): “The Patronage and Ornamentation of the Chora Monastery, Istanbul”
- Primary advisor to Undergraduate Paper Prize Winners: Nicole Nelson (Chora Monastery), Sara Junya (Anicia Juliana as Byzantine patron), Kristin Berg (Mamluk Jerusalem
Philidelphia Museum of Art, Lecturer, Fall, 2003
- New Courses Developed and taught:
- “Islamic Empires and their Architectural Traditions
University of Pennsylvania, College of General Studies, Instructor, Fall, 2003-Spring, 2004
History of Art Department, Teaching Assistant, Spring, 1999, 1996—1997
- New Courses Developed:
- “Introduction to the History of Art Before 1450”
- “Medieval Architecture”
- “Islamic Architecture Through the Ages” (short-duration course)
- Teaching Assistant:
- “Introduction to the History of Art to 1450”
- “Introduction to the History of Art 1450 to the Present”
- “Modern Architecture"
University of Pennsylvania, Chimicles Writing Fellow and Instructor, 2002-3
- Developed and taught new, writing intensive, content-based seminars for Freshman undergraduates in the Writing Across the University Program
ACADEMIC SERVICE AND COMMITTEE WORK:
University of Illinois at Chicago, Assistant Professor, 2005-Present; Visiting Professor, 2004-5
- University Faculty Senate, College of Architecture and the Arts Representative (college-wide elected position), 2009-11
- College of Architecture and the Arts Educational Policy Committee (for undergraduate studies) 2009-11
- Executive Committee, Art History Department, Spring, 2010, 2006-7
- Personnel Committee, Art History Department, Spring, 2010, 2006-7
- Art History Department Educational Policy Committee (for undergraduate studies), 2009-11, Spring, 2005
- Art History Graduate Student Association, Faculty Adviser, 2006-present
- College of Architecture and the Arts Gallery 400 Advisory Committee, 2007-2008
- Search Committee, Modern Architectural Historian Position, Art History Department, 2006-7
- Search Committee, Design Historian Position, Art History Department, 2006-7
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
Field Survey Director, Princeton University Menoikeion Research Project, Serres, Greece, Summer, 2006
- Lead archaeological group in field
- Taught students archaeological recording, measuring and other field survey techniques in conjunction with Princeton Menoikeion Seminar
- 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
- Drew measured site plans
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
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
PROFESSION AFFILIATIONS
Historians of Islamic Art Association, 2010
International Center of Medieval Art, 2006-present
College Art Association, 2000-present
Society of Architectural Historians, 2000-present
Byzantine Studies Association of North America (formerly Byzantine Studies Conference), 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
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