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Heather Elizabeth Grossman
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
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
Publications
Articles and Chapters in Books
“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 Public 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 105th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, CA, January 5, 2004.
"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 Experience
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)
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
American School of Classical Studies Cornith Excavations, Cornith, Greece
- Supervisor, Summer, 2000
- Worked with Guy Sanders
Panakton Project, Panakton (Boetia), Greece
- Archaeologist/Medieval Sculpture Specialist, Summer, 1999
- Worked with Sharon Gerstel and Mark Munn
University of Pennsylvania/American Academy of Rome Jerba Survey, Jerba, Tunisia
- Medieval Archaeologist/Photographer, Summer, 1998
- Worked with Renata Holod and Elizabeth Fentress
The Morea Project/MARWP, Northwestern Peloponnese, Greece
- Surveyor, August, 1996
- Worked with Frederick Cooper
Wesleyan/Brown Monastic Archaeology Project, L’Abbaye de Saint Jean–des–Vignes,Soissons, France
- Site Supervisor, 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
Professional 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
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
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