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JULIA C. FISCHER
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Curriculum Vitae
February 3, 2016
Department of Art
Lamar University
1030 East Lavaca Post Oce Box 10027
Beaumont, TX 77710 (oce) 409-880-7784
EDUCATION
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Ph.D., History of Art, The Ohio State University, 2014
Dissertation: Private Propaganda: The Iconography of Large Imperial
Cameos of the Early Roman Empire
Major Areas: Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
Minor Areas: Asian Art and Modern Art
M.A., Classical Archaeology, Department of Art History and
Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004
Thesis: The Tazza Farnese: A Reinterpretation
Major Area: Roman Art and Archaeology
Minor: Ancient Studies
B.A. Classics, Loyola University Chicago, 2001
Thesis: Berninis Contribution to the Bel Composto
Major Areas: Art History and Classical Studies
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
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2013 - Present
Assistant Professor of Art History
Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
2011 - 2013
Lecturer of Art History
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
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2010 - 2011
Visiting Instructor of Art History
Denison University, Granville, OH
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Lamar University
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Art Appreciation
Honors Art Appreciation
Art Appreciation Online
Art History I
Art History I Online
Art History II
Renaissance Art
Art and Crime
Asian Art
Ancient Art (Fall 2016)
Online Course Development
v Art History I (Lamar University, 2015)
v Art Appreciation (Lamar University, 2015)
v Monuments of Art (Georgia Southern University, 2012)
Georgia Southern University
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Art in Life [Art Appreciation]
Art of Asia
Art History I
Art and Crime
Art and Architecture of the Ancient World
Global Citizens (First Year Experience course)
Denison University
v Greek Art
v High Renaissance Art
v Art of Italy: Antiquity to the Baroque
Columbus College of Art and Design (Adjunct Instructor 2009-2011)
v Art 1400 to Contemporary
v Art, Design, and Culture I
v Art, Design, and Culture II
v History of Modern Design
STUDY ABROAD TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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2013
Montepulciano, Italy (Georgia Southern University, June-July)
v Introduction to Art [Art Appreciation]
v Art of Italy: Antiquity to the Baroque
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PUBLICATIONS
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Edited Books
2016
More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming in fall 2016
Chapters in Edited Books
2016
Introduction: The Minor Arts of Italy
More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy
A Womans Weapon: Private Propaganda in the Large Imperial
Cameos of the Early Empire
More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy
Books
2017
Art in Rome: An On-Site Course Textbook
Self-Published enhanced ebook and app, forthcoming in 2017
2015
How to Speak Art: Understanding Its Language, Issues, and
Themes
Cognella Academic Publishing
Peer-Reviewed Publications in Progress
2017
The Monuments Men in Japan
Journal of Art Crime, preparing submission for peer review in summer
2016
Book Reviews
2016
Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting: The Virgin and Child
Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography by Jaroslave Folda
The Classical Journal, forthcoming
The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece by Judith M. Barringer
The Classical Journal, submitted and forthcoming
Luxus: The Sumptuous Arts of Greece and Rome by Kenneth
Lapatin
Bryn Mawr Classical Review, submitted and forthcoming
2015
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture edited by Elisa A.
Friedland and Melanie Grunow Sobociski with Elaine K. Gazda
The Classical Journal, December 8
2006
The Language of Images in Roman Art by Tonio Hlscher
Religious Studies Review 32: 258 (2006) [published under Julia C.
Menes]
Web-Based Publications
2013 - 2014
Art and Crime course website, [Link]
Creator and Writer
2012 - 2015
Fischer Art History, [Link], Creator and Writer
Please note: This website is no longer active since its content was
transformed into my textbook, How to Speak Art
2011 - 2013
Smarthistory, Contributor
2008
Constructing a First Impression of Japan: Recreating a Photo
Album of Felice Beato
Knowledge Bank, The Ohio State University
Press
2015
The Miller Branch Library invites you on an art trip to Italy
Angela Wright, City of Beaumont, July 16
Take a tour through Paris at the Miller Library
Sharon Brooks, The Examiner, March 26
Fischer to Discuss City of Light in Pair of Lectures, April 24, May 5
Faith Roland, Lamar University Press, April 23
2013
Ill-Gotten Gains: How Many
Museums Have Stolen Objects in Their
Collections?
Carl Franzen, The Verge, May 13
CHAIRED AND CO-CHAIRED CONFERENCE SESSIONS
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2016
Breaking Bad in Italian Visual Culture
Southeastern College Art Conference, Roanoke, VA, October 19-22
2015
More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy
American Association of Italian Studies Annual Conference, Boulder,
CO, March 26-28
2014
Raiders of the Lost Art: Issues of Looting in Visual Culture
Southeastern College Art Conference, Sarasota, FL, October 8-11
Co-Chaired with Ashley Elston, Berea College
2013
Art and Crime: The Dark Side of Art History
Southeastern College Art Conference, October 30-November 2
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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2016
Bad Boy, Bad Boy: Caligula Goes Rogue in a Cameo Fragment
Southeastern College Art Conference, Roanoke, VA, October ??
2015
An Iconographic Melting Pot: The Tazza Farnese, Gemma
Augustea, and Grand Came de France
Southeastern College Art Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 21-24
A Womans Weapon: Private Propaganda in the Gemma Augustea
and Grand Came de France
American Association of Italian Studies Annual Conference, Boulder,
CO, March 26-28
2014
The Monuments Men in Japan
Southeastern College Art Conference, Sarasota, FL, October 8-11
2013
To the Victor Go the Spoils: Looting in the Roman Empire
Southeastern College Art Conference, Greensboro, NC, October
30-November 2
From Rags to Riches: The Iconographic Evolution in Roman
Cameos of the Early Empire
Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle, WA, January 3-6
2012
Roman Relief Sculpture and Imperial Cameos: Iconographic
Borrowing in the Early Empire
Southeastern College Art Conference, Durham, NC, October 17-20
Everything is Not As It Seems: Reconstructing Felice Beatos
Japan
Midwest Art History Society Conference, Wichita, KS, March 29-31
2009
Roman Relief Sculpture and Imperial Cameos: An Iconographic
Investigation of Public and Private Art in the Early Empire
Dissertation Colloquium, The Ohio State University, June 11
2008
Constructing a First Impression of Japan: Recreating a Photo
Album of Felice Beato
22nd Annual Edward Hayes Graduate Research Forum, The Ohio State
University, April 19
Ad majorem dei gloriam: The Power of Pozzos Perspective in the
Nave Fresco of Sant Ignazio in Rome
Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Art History and
Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, February 29-March 1
2007
Luo Gonglius Mao Zedong at Jinggang Shan: The Influence of the
Peredvizhniki
21st Annual Edward Hayes Graduate Research Forum, The Ohio State
University, April 21
Chinese Socialist Realism: The Influence of the Peredvizhniki
Quarterly Graduate Student Symposium, Department of the History of
Art, The Ohio State University, February 23
2004
The Tazza Farnese: Hellenistic of Roman?
12th Annual University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Kansas at
Lawrence Art History and Archaeology Graduate Student Symposium,
March 6
2002
Reconstructing a Roman Season Sarcophagus
Annual AH 715 [Introduction to Graduate Studies] Symposium,
Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of MissouriColumbia, November 21
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INVITED LECTURES
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2016
The Colosseum
Veritas Christian Academy, Beaumont, TX, April 18
Augustus and Roman Imperial Portraits
Veritas Christian Academy, Beaumont, TX, April 11
The Parthenon
Veritas Christian Academy, Beaumont, TX, April 4
How to Speak Art
Friends of the Arts, Beaumont, TX, March 1
Private Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early
Roman Empire
Archaeological Institute of America, Valparaiso University, IN Chapter,
February 16
2015
The Sistine Chapel
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, October 9
Michelangelos Sculpture
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, October 2
Italian Renaissance Painting in the Uzi Gallery
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, September 11
Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, and the Palace of Versailles
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, May 1
Highlights of the Muse dOrsay
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, April 24
Masterpieces of the Louvre
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, April 17
2014
For Your Eyes Only: Private Propaganda in Roman Imperial
Cameos
Academic Enhancement Workshop, Lamar University, February 19
2012
Vote For Me!: Politics in Ancient Roman Cameos
Great Minds Lecture Series, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences,
Georgia Southern University, April 30
2011
Art and Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, July 8
Egypt and the Art of the Pharaohs
Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, June 10
Highlights of Asian Architecture
Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, February 4
Pictures of the Floating World: 19th Century Japanese Ukiyo-e
Prints
Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, January 14
2010
Modern European Art: 1900-1940
Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, June 18
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, June 11
AWARDS AND GRANTS
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2013
Nominee, Award of Distinction for Teaching
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Georgia Southern University
2009
Pyne-Snow Travel Grant
Department of History of Art, The Ohio State University
2008
1st Place, The Arts, Constructing a First Impression of Japan:
Recreating a Photo Album of Felice Beato
Edward Hayes Graduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University
CERTIFICATIONS
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2012
Developing and Teaching Online Courses
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship, Georgia Southern
University
CONSULTING
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2016
2012 - 2013
AP Reader, Art History, College Board
Salt Lake City, UT, June 2-10
Sophia Learning
Art History Tutorial Reviewer
SERVICE
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2016
Core Assessment Committee
Lamar University
Faculty Library Representative
Lamar University
Kappa Pi Honors Society, Faculty Representative
Lamar University
2015
Core Assessment Committee
Lamar University
Faculty Marshall, December Commencement
Lamar University
Javits Fellowship Representative
Honors College, Lamar University
Department of Art, Facebook and Twitter account manager
Lamar University
Portal Committee
Lamar University
Scholarship Committee
Lamar University
Faculty Library Representative
Lamar University
Kappa Pi Honors Society, Faculty Representative
Lamar University
2014
Search Committee Chair (Art History Instructor)
Lamar University
Faculty Marshall, December Commencement
Lamar University
Search Committee Member (Director of the Dishman Art Gallery)
Lamar University
Pre-College Summer Art Program, Session Instructor (Art and Crime
course)
Lamar University
Recruitment Committee
Lamar University
NASAD Accreditation Committee
Lamar University
Kappa Pi Honors Society, Faculty Representative
Lamar University
Scholarship Committee
Lamar University
2013
2012
Scholarship Committee
Lamar University
NASAD Accreditation Committee
Lamar University
Assessment Committee - Art in Life (General Education)
Georgia Southern University
Volunteer, Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Georgia Southern University
ArtsFest Volunteer, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art
Georgia Southern University
Academic Advising for BA Studio Majors
Georgia Southern University
Art History Majors - Graduate School Information Sessions
Georgia Southern University
Tailgating Faculty Host, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art
Georgia Southern University
Volunteer, Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Georgia Southern University
ArtsFest Volunteer, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art
Georgia Southern University
2007 - 2008
Curriculum Committee
Department of History of Art, The Ohio State University
2005 - 2006
GILD [Group for the Intellectual Life of the Department] Committee
Department of History of Art, The Ohio State University
2003 - 2004
Co-President, Art History and Archaeology Graduate Student
Association
University of Missouri-Columbia
Co-Symposium Coordinator
University of Missouri-Columbia
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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American Association of Italian Studies
Italian Art Society
Southeastern College Art Conference
Midwest Art History Society
Archaeological Institute of America
College Art Association
LANGUAGES
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Italian
Reading: Excellent, Speaking: Basic
German
Reading: Excellent
French
Reading: Excellent
Ancient Greek
Reading: Excellent
Latin
Reading: Excellent
