Amy C. Smith
{{short description|Archaeologist and museum curator}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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Amy C. Smith is the current Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology and Professor of Classical Archaeology at Reading University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/about/staff/a-c-smith.aspx|title=Professor Amy Smith|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=2018-06-07}} She is known for her work on iconography, the history of collections, and digital museology.
Career
Smith received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MA, MPhil, and PhD (1997) from Yale University, all in classical archaeology.{{Cite web|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/about/staff/a-c-smith.aspx|title=Amy C. Smith|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=2018-06-05}} Her doctoral thesis was on the topic of Greek personification and this work was published as a monograph in 2011.{{Cite journal|last=Stafford|first=Emma|date=April 2016|title=Review of: Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 19|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2016/2016-04-32.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}}
Smith taught at Tufts University, Boston College, and Massachusetts College of Art and worked at the Yale University Art Gallery before moving to the University of Reading. At Reading, Smith headed the redevelopment of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology in 2004-05 and has worked on the university's collection of vases publishing the 23rd British fascicule of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum project in 2007.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cvaonline.org/cva/|title=CVA - Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum|website=www.cvaonline.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-07}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/corpus-vasorum-antiquorum|title=Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum {{!}} British Academy|website=British Academy|language=en|access-date=2018-06-07}} Her work on iconography has included research on the depiction of Aphrodite and personifications in Greek art.{{Cite web|url=http://www.roman-emperors.org/amysmith.htm|title=Smith|website=www.roman-emperors.org|access-date=2018-06-07}}
Smith's current work centres on the 2017/18 anniversary of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. She is a member of the Winckelmann-Gesellschaft's International Committee focusing on events to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Winckelmann's birth.{{Cite news|url=https://www.winckelmann-gesellschaft.com/en/winckelmann_anniversaries_20172018/international_activities/united_kingdom/|title=United Kingdom|last=V.|first=Winckelmann Gesellschaft e.|date=2018-01-15|work=winckelmann-gesellschaft.com|access-date=2018-06-07|language=en}} Smith is a co-organiser of a series of conferences to mark the anniversary and is also the co-curator (with Katherine Harloe) of the exhibition Winckelmann in Italy: Curiosity and connoisseurship in the 18th-century gentleman's study at Christ Church Upper Library from 29 June to 26 October 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library-and-archives/winckelmann-italy|title=Winckelmann in Italy {{!}} Christ Church, Oxford University|website=www.chch.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-06-18}}
Professional work and associations
Creator (with Brian Fuchs) of the Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives.{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2006.html|title=Digital Classicist: wip wip2006|website=www.digitalclassicist.org|access-date=2018-06-07}}{{Cite web|url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/204539/|title=The virtual lightbox for museums and archives: a portlet solution for structured data reuse across distributed visual resources|last=Brian|first=Fuchs|last2=Leif|first2=Isaksen|date=2005|website=eprints.soton.ac.uk|access-date=2018-06-07|last3=Amy|first3=Smith}}
Founding member in 2011 of the Pottery in Context Research Network (ICS, London).{{Cite web|url=https://ics.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/ICS%20AnnualReport_64_2016-17.pdf|title=Annual Report 64 Institute of Classical Studies|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=2018-06-07}}
Member of the Digital Classics Advisory Committee, 2016-18 (ICS, London).{{Cite news|url=https://ics.sas.ac.uk/about-us/governance/digital-classics-advisory-committee|title=Digital Classics Advisory Committee|date=2017-02-06|work=Institute of Classical Studies|access-date=2018-08-28|language=en}}
Founding member of the International Network of Classical Archaeology University Collections.
Research associate of the Beazley Archive, University of Oxford.{{Cite web|url=https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/archive/default.htm|title=Beazley Archive - The Classical Art Research Centre|website=www.beazley.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-06-07}}
Member of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2015–16; excavated at their excavations in Greece (the Athenian Agora and Corinth) and Spain (Pollentia).{{Cite web|url=http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/about/mc-listing|title=Managing Committee|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143735/http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/about/mc-listing|archive-date=2018-06-12|access-date=2018-06-05|url-status=dead}}
Member of the advisory board of the Institute in Ancient Itineraries: The Digital Lives of Art History based at King's College, London.{{Cite web |title=King's College London - Call for members: Major new Institute opens at King's College London with Getty Foundation support |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/archive/news/ddh/2018/call-for-members-getty-foundation-institute-at-kings-college-london |access-date=2018-06-07 |website=www.kcl.ac.uk |language=en-GB}}
Honours
2016 Gertrude Smith Visiting Professor, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/about/position#Gertrude%20Smith%20Professors,%202018|title=Positions at the ASCSA / About / The American School of Classical Studies at Athens|website=www.ascsa.edu.gr|access-date=2018-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141314/http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/about/position#Gertrude%20Smith%20Professors,%202018|archive-date=2018-06-12|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|url=https://nataliavogeikoff.com/2016/08/01/gertrude-smith-a-classic-american-philhellene/|title=Gertrude Smith: A Classic American Philhellene|date=2016-08-01|work=From the Archivist's Notebook|access-date=2018-06-07|language=en-US}}
Smith was a 2017/2018 visiting research fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University{{Cite news|url=http://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/encountering-strangers-classical-athenian-art-case-pan-painter|title=Encountering Strangers in Classical Athenian Art: The Case of the Pan Painter|last=Centre|first=Head|date=2017-09-27|work=Humanities Research Centre|access-date=2018-06-07|language=en-AU}} in Canberra and was invited to give the 2017 Trendall Lecture at La Trobe University in Melbourne entitled 1766 and All That! Winckelmann and the Study of Greek Vases.{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-reading/2017/11/13/professor-amy-smith-gives-prestigious-trendall-lecture/|title=Professor Amy Smith gives prestigious Trendall Lecture|date=2017-11-13|work=Classics at Reading|access-date=2018-06-05|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latrobe.edu.au/events/all/2017-trendall-lecture |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142451/https://www.latrobe.edu.au/events/all/2017-trendall-lecture |archive-date=2018-06-12 |title=2017 Trendall Lecture|last=University|first=La Trobe|website=www.latrobe.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2018-06-07}}
Selected publications
- with K Harloe and C Neagu (eds), Winckelmann and Curiosity: In the 18th-century Gentleman's Library (Christ Church Library, Oxford and Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading; 2018)
- Winckelmann, Greek masterpieces, and architectural sculpture. Prolegomena to a history of classical archaeology in museums (Studies in Classical Archaeology, 1. 2017)
- Polis and personification in Classical Athenian art (Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 19. Brill, Leiden 2011)
- with S Pickup (eds), Brill's Companion to Aphrodite (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies. Brill, Leiden 2010)
- Corpus vasorum antiquorum, Great Britiain fascicule 23. Reading Museum Service (Oxford University Press, 2007)
References
External links
- [https://reading.academia.edu/AmySmith Amy Smith] at Academia.edu
- [https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-reading/tag/prof-amy-smith/ Behind the scenes at the Ure Museum]
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