Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Alexandra Ann Carpino

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310 W. Pine Ave.Department of Comparative

Flagstaff, AZ 86001Cultural Studies, Box 6031

(928) 213-8505 orNorthern ArizonaUniversity

(928) 525-4781Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6031

(928) 523-8801

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EDUCATION

Ph.D.1993School of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa

Dissertation: Etruscan Relief Mirrors: Origins, Functions and Cultural Significance (Advisor: Professor Richard D. De Puma)

M.A.1988School of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa

Thesis: The Shoulder Bust in Central Italy: Formal Characteristics and Iconographic Implications

A.B.1986BrynMawrCollege (cum laude)

Major: Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2012-presentFull Professor of Art History, NAU

2011-presentEditor-in-Chief, Etruscan Studies: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation

2011 Visiting Professor and NAU Resident Faculty Director, The Siena School for Liberal Arts, Siena, Italy (F’11)

2008-presentChair, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, NAU

2002-presentAssociate Professor of Art History, Northern Arizona University

1999Visiting Scholar, The American Academy in Rome

1998-2002Assistant Professor of Art History, Northern Arizona University (started August, 1998)

1993-1998Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Michigan—Dearborn

1991-1993Resident Faculty, Vermont College, Montpelier

1990-1993Adjunct Instructor, The University of Iowa, Iowa City

1988-1991Teaching Assistant, The University of Iowa, Iowa City

1987Field Researcher, Archaeological Excavations at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), Italy

COURSES TAUGHT AND DEVELOPED

Art and Life in Ancient TuscanyArt and Religion in the Ancient World Art History Survey I & II Arts of West Africa

Egyptian ArtEtruscan Art

Greek ArtIntro to Humanities: The Visual Arts

Methodologies of Art HistoryMuseum Practice Seminar

Native ArtsNAU in Florence

NAU in RomeRoman Art

Women in Classical AntiquityWriting About Art

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS/HONORS

2012-2013The 2012-2013 Cinelli and La Follette Lectureships, Nashville, TN and Amherst, MA

2011Nominations for Outstanding Advisor of the Year and the President's Award, NAU

2010Curriculum Redesign Grant: Infusing the Global Learning Outcomes into the CCS Curriculum, Global Learning Committee, NAU

2009Student Learning and Curriculum Design Award, Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, NAU

2007Nomination, Teacher of the Year for the College of Arts and Letters, NAU

2002Intramural Grant, NAU

Publication Subvention Grant, The Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation, Great Britain

Nomination, Outstanding Faculty Member for the College of Arts and Sciences

2000Teaching and Learning Effectiveness Grant, NAU

1999Organized Research Grant, NAU

1998Teaching and Learning Effectiveness Grant, Northern Arizona University

1997Year of Humanities and Arts Course Community Mini-Grant, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor

1995-1997Educational Enhancement Grants, University of Michigan—Dearborn

1994Research Grant, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and the Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor

1993-1994Faculty Research/Travel Grants, University of Michigan—Dearborn

1992Travel Grant, Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa

1991Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Samuel H. Kress Foundation

1990Elizabeth Gilmore Holt Scholarship, University of Iowa

1987Travel Grant for Excavation Work in Italy, University of Iowa

PUBLICATIONS

Books

A Companion to the Etruscans, co-edited with Dr. Sinclair Bell. In progress. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. Contract awarded F’11.

Discs of Splendor: The Relief Mirrors of the Etruscans. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Reviewed in AJA 109 (2005): 320-322; Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2005); Latomus: Revue d’Études Latines (2007); Classical World 100.4 (2007).

Articles

“The ‘Taste’ for Violence in Etruscan Art.” In A Companion to the Etruscans, edited by A. Carpino and S. Bell. Wiley-Blackwell: In progress.

“Portraiture.” Forthcoming, May 2013. In The Etruscan World, edited by Jean Macintosh Turfa. London: Routledge.

“Killing Klytaimnestra: Matricide Myths on Etruscan Bronze Mirrors.” Etruscan Studies 14 (2011): 3- 37.

“Reflections from the Tomb: Mirrors as Grave Goods in Hellenistic Tarquinia.” Etruscan Studies 11 (2008): 1-33.

“The Delivery of Helen’s Egg: An Examination of an Etruscan Relief Mirror in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.” Etruscan Studies 3 (1996): 33-44.

“Commentary on the Li Xian Silver Ewer.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 3 (1989): 71-75 (co-authored with Dr. Jean James).

Festschrift Contributions

“Dueling Warriors on Two Etruscan Bronze Mirrors from the Fifth Century B.C. E.” In New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome: Papers in Honor ofRichard D. De Puma, edited by Sinclair Bell and Helen Nagy, 182-197. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.

Reviewed in AJA Online Book Reviews 114.3 (July 2010); Antiquity 84 (2010): 566; BABESCH 85 (2010): 212-13; The Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.02.32; and Classical Review (2010).

Articles in Conference Volumes

“Margaret of Austria’s Funerary Complex at Brou: Conjugal Love, Political Ambition or Personal Glory?” In Women and Art in Early Modern Europe: Patrons, Collectors and Connoisseurs, edited by Cynthia Lawrence, 37-52. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State Press, 1997.

“Greek Mythology in Etruria: An Iconographic Analysis of Three Etruscan Relief Mirrors.” In Etruscan Italy: Etruscan Influences on the Civilizations of Italy from Antiquity to the Modern Era, edited by John F. Hall, 64-91. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1996.

Bibliographic and Encyclopedia Entries

“Art, Etruscan.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics. New York: Oxford University Press, April 2011,

“Mirrors.” The OxfordEncyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Book Reviews, Film Reviews, Newsletters, and Translations

Review of Ilaria Domenici’s Etruscae Fabulae: Mito e Rappresentazione. InRasenna: Journal of the Center for Etruscan Studies 3.1 (2011) (

Co-translator with Dr. Erika Hess (NAU) for Dr. Dominique Briquel’s review of Écritures, cultures, sociétés dans les nécropoles d’Italie ancienne: table-ronde des 14-15 décembre 2007, “Mouvements et trajectoires dans les nécropoles d’Italie d’époque pré-républicaine et républicaine,” edited by Marie-Laurence Haack. (Pressac [France]: Ausonius Éditions [Études 23] 2009). InEtruscan Studies 14 (2011): 203-208.

Film Review of Etruscan Odyssey: Expanding Archaeology, a film by Rachel Lyon. For Lioness Media Arts, Inc. (Dallas, TX), 2011.

“Ancient Art History and Its Implications for Contemporary Global Art.” NAU GLOBAL (2010): 15.

Dietrich Boshung and Charlotte Trümpler, eds., Ruhr Museum: Katalog der Etruskischen und Italischen Antiken mit einigen Stücken aus dem Museum Folkwang Essen. In Etruscan Studies 13 (2010): 163-164.

Review ofFred S. Kleiner, “Chapter 9: Etruscan Art” in Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 13th Edition, 2010.

Vedia Izzet, The Archaeology of Etruscan Society. In Etruscan Studies 12 (2009): 249-252, and The Classical Bulletin 84.2 (2009): 118-119.

Nancy T. de Grummond. Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend. In AJA 112 (2008): 556-557.

Nancy T. de Grummond and Erika. Simon, eds. The Religion of the Etruscans. In The Historian, The Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and the American Journal of Archaeology Online Book Review 11.4 (2007).

L. Bouke Van der Meer. Myths and Moreon Etruscan Stone Sarcophagi (c. 350 – c. 200 B.C.). In Journal of Roman Studies (2006): 285-86.

Online reviews of Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 2005 & 2002.

Review for Enslow Publishers, Inc. of E. Wolfson’s Roman Mythology, 2000.

Conference Panels Organized and Chaired

The Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Meetings, Seattle, 2013: Co-Organizer and Chair of the Colloquium, “New Approaches and Insights on Etruscan Art and Culture.”

The College Art Association’s Annual Meetings, Boston, 2006: Organizer and Chair of the panel, “A Taste for Violence: Images of Cruelty and Death in Etruscan Art”

Professional Papers

Conference and Symposia Presentations

  • The Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Meetings, Seattle, 2013: “The Iconography of Violence against Women on Engraved Etruscan Bronze Mirrors.”
  • The College Art Association’s Annual Meetings, Dallas, 2008: Panel: Cultural Identity and Etruscan Art: “The Murder of Clytemnestra on Etruscan Bronze Mirrors.”
  • The Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Meetings,Philadelphia, 2002: “Gender and Patronage in Etruscan Art: The Evidence of the Onomastic Mirrors;” Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002): 257.
  • The Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Meetings, San Diego, 2001: “Reflections from the Tomb: Re-Assessing the Funerary Functions of Etruscan Mirrors;” Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 105 (2001): 286.
  • The Sixth International Gender and Archaeology Conference, Flagstaff, 2000: “Iconography and Gender in Etruscan Art: The Evidence of the Onomastic Mirrors”
  • College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, 1999: “A Glance in the Mirror: Reflections of Etruscan Culture and Belief”
  • Midwest Art History Society Meeting, Dallas, 1997: “The Cracow Mirror Revisited: Prometheus Liberated, Herakles Triumphant, or a Nineteenth Century Fake?”
  • Symposium on Etruscan Italy, Brigham Young University, Provo, 1994: “Greek Mythology in Etruria: An Examination of Four Etruscan Relief Mirrors”
  • The Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1993: “The Delivery of Helen’s Egg in Etruria” (versions of this paper were also presented in 1992 at the Southeastern College Art Conference, Birmingham, and as part of the Classics Colloquium, University of Iowa); Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 98 (1994): 318.
  • 8th Annual Graduate Symposium in Art History, University of Iowa, 1992: “The Bologna Relief Mirror and the Healing of Philoktetes: An Etruscan Original”
  • Graduate Student Seminar, Art Institute of Chicago, 1991: “The ‘Penelope’ Mirror: A Reconsideration of an Etruscan Relief Mirror in the Petit Palais, Paris”
  • The Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Meetings, San Francisco, 1990: “Etruscan Relief Mirrors: A Stylistic and Iconographic Analysis;” Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 95 (1991): 301.
  • Symposium on Matronage, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1990: “Margaret of Austria’s Funerary Complex at Brou”
  • Midwest Art History Society Meeting, Columbia, MO, 1989: “Etruscan Shoulder Busts”
  • Symposium on Ancient Portraits, University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1988: “Etruscan Portrait Busts”
  • 4th Annual Graduate Symposium in Art History, University of Iowa, 1988: “Lilly Martin Spencer’s War Spirit at Home (Celebrating the Victory at Vicksburg): An Homage to American Women and Their Dual Roles during the Civil War”

Sabbatical Lecture

Sabbatical Lecture, NAU, 2006: “Death, Dying and Dismemberment on Etruscan Bronze Mirrors: Some Preliminary Conclusions”

Invited Guest Lectures

  • The AIA’s La Follette Lecture, Amherst, MA, Apr. 11, 2013: “Beauty and Violence: Matricide Myths on Etruscan Bronze Mirrors”
  • The AIA Cinelli Lecture, Nashville, TN, Feb. 5, 2013: “Etruscan Faces: From the Symbolic to the Real”
  • The NAU Art History Society’s Guest Lecture Series, NAU, 2010: “Current Research”
  • Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2009: “Death, Decapitation and Dismemberment on Etruscan Bronze Mirrors”
  • City of Glendale Library and Arts Department, Glendale, AZ, 2008: “From Tragedy to Triumph: Visualizing Heroism on Etruscan BronzeMirrors”
  • Roman History Class Guest Lecture, Fall 2008: “Etruscan Art and Culture”
  • The Martin-Springer Institute, Northern Arizona University, 2002: “Art and Culture in Cracow, Poland”
  • The University of Alaska, Kachemak Bay Campus, Homer, 2001: “The Etruscans: Their Art, Their Culture, Their History”
  • The Northern Arizona Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, 2000: “Etruscan Mirrors: An Introduction”
  • Women’s Studies Winter Lecture Series, University of Michigan Dearborn, 1999: “Etruscan Bronze Mirrors: Reflections of Women’s Lives in Pre-Roman Italy”
  • Dante Alighieri Society, Michigan Chapter, 1997: “The Etruscans: An Introduction”
  • German Across the Curriculum Lecture Series, University of Michigan, 1996: “Die Römer: Eine Einführung”
  • Methodology Seminar Lecture Series, University of Michigan—Dearborn, 1996: “The Iconography of the ‘Talos’ Mirror in Berlin”
  • Museum Practice Seminar I Lecture at the Toledo Museum of Art, 1996: “Classical Bronzes in the Fire of Hephaistos Exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art”

Public Lectures

  • NAU Family Weekend, 2005: “That’s ROMANEntertainment!”
  • Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series, NAU: “Current Research on Etruscan Bronze Mirrors,” 1998
  • Humanitas Series, University of Michigan—Dearborn, 1994: “Etruscan Modifications of Greek Mythology: A Cultural Analysis of Three Relief Mirrors”

Exhibitions

  • Curator, Learning from the Masters: Celebrating Flagstaff’s Masterpiece Art Program, Jewel Gallery, Coconino Center for the Arts, March 2012
  • Curator, Hello, My Name Is. . .,NAU Art Museum, April 21-May 30, 2007 (organized in conjunction with the S’07 ARH capstone class)
  • Juror, The St. Francis Art Show: Radical Messages, The Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, 2002
  • Chair/Exhibition Coordinator, The University of Iowa Fine Arts Council, 1988-89

Professional Affiliations

Archaeological Institute of America

The Etruscan Foundation

College Art Association

Masterpiece Art Program of Flagstaff

Professional Service

Archaeological Institute of America

  • Annual Meetings Volunteer, 2005-2007
  • Organizer and President of the Northern Arizona Society, 1999-2002

The Etruscan Foundation

  • Editor-in-Chief of Etruscan Studies, 2011-present
  • Assistant Editor of Etruscan Studies, 2010-2011
  • Member of the Publication Committee, 2010– present
  • Member of the Fellowship Review Committee, 2005-2009
  • Advisory Board Member, 2004-present

External Reviewer for the Tenure Application of Dr. Francesco de Angelis, Columbia University, 2012

Manuscript Reviewer:

  • For Cambria Press, 2012
  • For Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2011
  • For the University of Texas Press, 2010

Festschrift Celebration Co-Organizer, “A Celebration of the Achievements of Dr. Richard Daniel De Puma,” Iowa City, Iowa, 2010 (designed and produced the brochure)

External Reviewer for the Tenure and Promotion Review of Dr. Alexis Castor, Franklin and Marshall College, 2009

External Examiner for Elizabeth Campbell’s PhD thesis, “Bronze Mirrors of the Etruscans; Objects of Everyday Use; Instruments of Ritual,” Victoria’s University of Wellington (New Zealand), 2008

MA Thesis Committee Member for Carey Fee, University of California, Davis, 2005-2006

University Service: Northern Arizona University

Department-Level Service

Department Chair, 2008-present (on sabbatical: F’11-S’12)

Chair, CCS Global Learning Curriculum Redesign Committee, 2010

Associate Chair, 2005-2008

Art History Program Coordinator, 2007-2008, 2001-2002

Faculty Status/Annual Review Committee, 2006-2007, 2002-2004 (served as Chair), 1999-2000

Art History Search Committees, 2005-2006 (Chair), 2000-2002

HAR Assessment Committee, 2000

Faculty Advisor, Art History Student Group, 2000

Library Representative, 1999-2001

Standards Committee, 1999

Art History Curriculum Committee, 1998-present

Director of Slide Library, 1998-2004

College-Level Service

Presentation to the ALEC Board, 2012

Patty Lugo Committee, 2010

Lecturer in the Outreach Program to the Public Schools, NAU Art Museum, 2009-2010

Co-organizer for the opening reception for The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation Study Collection of Asian Art, NAU Art Museum, 2009

Martin-Springer Institute Director Search Committee, 2008-2009

Member of the Museum Advisory Committee, 2007-2009

Dean’s Audit Committee for History and Modern Languages, 2007

NAU-at –large reviewer for the tenure and promotion review of Jason Hess (School of Art), 2005

Reader, Arts and Sciences College Commencement, 1999-2001

University-Level Service

Academic Chairs Council Executive Committee, 2010-2011

Faculty Development Forum, Explorations of Global Learning Activities for Student Learning and Engagement (presentation on CCS’s Global Learning Strategy), 2010

Education Abroad Committee, 2010

Celebration of Academic Achievement, Poster: Out in the Real World: Art History, Internships and Museum Experience,2010

WebTA Funding Committee, 2009

Discussion Leader during Freshman Orientation for A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Boy Soldier by Ishmael Bael, 2008

Faculty Representative of the NAU in Siena Program, Center for International Education, 2007-present

Member of the Steering Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies, 2006-2007, 2002-2004

New University Student Mentoring Program, 2003

Committee on Faculty Status and Annual Review Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies, 2002-2003

Member, BFA Thesis Committees, School of Art, 2001-2003, 2007

Affiliate Faculty Member, Women’s and Gender Studies, 1998-present

Community Service

The Masterpiece Art Program of Flagstaff

  • Curator, Learning from the Masters: Celebrating Flagstaff’s Masterpiece Art Program, Jewel Gallery, Coconino Center for the Arts, March 2012
  • Vice-President, Sept 2008-present
  • Interim President of the Board of Directors, 2008 [January – July]
  • Grant Writer, 2007-present (successful grants received from the Flagstaff Community Foundation: 2011: $3000; 2010: $4000; 2009: $4500; 2008: $4500; 2007: $3000)
  • Member of the Board of Directors, 2006-present
  • School Coordinator for the Montessori Charter School of Flagstaff—Switzer Mesa, 2002-2009
  • Art Guide at the Montessori Charter Schools of Flagstaff—Sunnyside Preschool and Switzer Mesa Elementary School, 2000-2012

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