Richard Theodore Neer

Department of Art History
5540 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773.702.5890
fax: 773.702.5901
rtneer@uchicago.edu

Current Employment

Associate Professor, Department of Art History and the College, University of Chicago. ( 2003-present).
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and the College, University of Chicago (1999-2003).

Education

• Ph.D. in the History of Art, University of California at Berkeley. (1998)
• M.A. in the History of Art, University of California at Berkeley. (1994)
• A.B. magna cum laude with summa honors in Fine Arts, Harvard College. (1991)

Books

Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, circa 530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, fascicule 7 (J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997).

Articles and Reviews

“How Geloan Is the Geloan Treasury? Pindar, the Deinomenidai, and Chronology.” In Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture of the Greek World. Ed. P.

“Schultz and R. van den Hoff (American School of Classical Studies: forthcoming).

“The Incontinence of Civic Authority in Athenian Vase-Painting.” In The World of Greek Vases, ed. V. Nørskov (Univeristy of Aarhus Press, forthcoming).

“Connoisseurship and the Stakes of Style.” Critical Inquiry 32 (2005).

“Delphi, Olympia, and the Art of Politics.” In The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece, ed. H. A. Shapiro (Cambridge University Press; forthcoming).

“Reaction and Response.” Critical Inquiry 30 (2004): 472-76.

“The Athenian Treasury at Delphi and the Material of Politics.” Classical Antiquity 22 (2004): 63-93.

“The Siphnian Treasury at Delphi and the Politics of Architectural Sculpture” in The Cultures within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, ed. C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2003).

“Poussin, Titian, and Tradition: The Birth of Bacchus and the Genealogy of Images,” Word & Image 18 (2002): 267-81.

“Space and Politics: On the Earliest Classical Athenian Gravestones.” Apollo: The International Magazine of the Arts 156 (July, 2002): 20-27.

“Imitation, Inscription, Antilogic,” Métis: Revue d’anthropologie du monde grec ancien (2001; publication delayed).

“Framing the Gift: The Politics of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi.” Classical Antiquity 20 (2001): 273-336.

Review of Mary B. Moore, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, fascicule 8. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-01-02.html

“Beazley and the Language of Connoisseurship,” Hephaistos 15 (1997): 7-30.

“The Lion’s Eye: Imitation and Uncertainty in Attic Red-Figure,” Representations 51 (1995): 118-53.

Works-in-Progress

Poussin’s Memory: The Impossibility of Classicism.

Signs and Wonders: Greek Art and the Idea of Imitation

“The Art and Politics of Panhellenism,” in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece, ed. H. A. Shapiro (Cambridge University Press; under contract).

“The Politics of the Athenian Treasury at Delphi.”

“The Bog-Walker and the Duck-Rabbit: Style Now.”

Awards and Fellowships

J. Paul Getty Research Institute Scholar Fellowship, 2005-2006 (unsolicited; declined).

Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, 2003-2004.

Millard Meiss Publication Grant, College Art Association, 2001.

J. Paul Getty Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

David E. Finley Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, d.c. (1996-1999)

Regents-Intern Fellowship, University of California. (1992-1996)

Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, J. Paul Getty Museum. (1991-1992)

Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Work awarded for honors thesis in Fine Arts, Harvard College. (1991)

Harvard College Scholarships for High Academic Achievement, Harvard College. 1988-1991)

Other Professional Activities

Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies in Athens. (2001 ­ present)

Associate Editor, Classical Philology. (2000 ­ present).

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