Kleiner, Diana E(lizabeth) E(delman) 1947-

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KLEINER, Diana E(lizabeth) E(delman) 1947-

PERSONAL: Born September 18, 1947, in New York, NY; daughter of Morton Henry (a physician) and Hilda Rachel (Wyner) Edelman; married Fred S. Kleiner (a professor), December 22, 1972; children: Alexander Mark. Education: Smith College, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1969; Columbia University, M.A., 1970, M.Phil., 1974, Ph.D., 1976.


ADDRESSES: Home—102 Rimmon Rd., Woodbridge, CT 06525-1941. Offıce—Office of the Provost, 133 Hall of Graduate Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520. E-mail—[email protected].


CAREER: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, lecturer, 1975-76, assistant professor of classics, 1976-78; University of Massachusetts, Boston, visiting assistant professor of classics, 1979; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Mellon faculty fellow, 1979-80; Yale University, New Haven, CT, assistant professor, 1980-82, associate professor, 1982-89, professor, 1989—, Dunham Professor of Classics and History of Art, 1995—, fellow of Whitney Humanities Center, 1984-87, master of Pierson College, 1986-87, department chair, 1994-95, appointed deputy provost for the arts, 1995. Member of board of directors, Westville Community Nursery School, 1989-90, and Foote School, 1994-2000.

MEMBER: Archaeological Institute of America, American Philological Association, College Art Association of America.


AWARDS, HONORS: Grants from American Council of Learned Societies, 1979, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1980, and American Philosophical Society, 1982; honorary M.A., Yale University, 1989; grant from J. Paul Getty Trust.


WRITINGS:

Roman Group Portraiture, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1977.

The Monument of Philopappos in Athens, Giorgio Bretschneider (Rome, Italy), 1983.

Roman Imperial Funerary Altars with Portraits, Giorgio Bretschneider (Rome, Italy), 1987.

Roman Sculpture, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1992.

(Editor, with Susan B. Matheson) I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome, Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT), 1996.

(Editor, with Susan B. Matheson) I, Claudia II: Women in Roman Art and Society, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 2000.


Member of advisory boards, Archaeological News, 1980—, and Journal of Archaeology, 1985-98.


WORK IN PROGRESS: Cleopatra and Rome, for Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA).


BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, February, 1994, review of Roman Sculpture, p. 208.

American Reference Books Annual, 1994, review of Roman Sculpture, p. 433.

Apollo, July, 1994, review of Roman Sculpture, p. 59.

Bookwatch, December, 1996, review of I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome, p. 8.

Choice, March, 1997, review of I, Claudia, p. 1216; May, 2001, review of I, Claudia II: Women in Roman Art and Society, p. 1676.

Classical World, November, 1994, review of Roman Sculpture, p. 143.

Religious Studies Review, January, 1994, review of Roman Sculpture, p. 57.


ONLINE

Large Print Reviews Web Site,http://www.largeprintreviews.com/ (November 1, 2000), Rochelle Caviness, review of I, Claudia and I, Claudia II.

Yale University Web Site: Diana E. E. Kleiner Home Page,http://www.yale.edu/ (November 17, 2004).*

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