Tyler Jo Smith
· Professor of Classical Art and ArchaeologyUniversity of Virginia · Art History
Active 1996–2025
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About
Tyler Jo Smith is a Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Virginia, specializing in Classical Art and Archaeology. She is a Classical Archaeologist with a focus on ancient Greek figure-decorated pottery, as well as images of performance and ritual in Greek and Roman art. Her research interests include the art and archaeology of alcohol in the ancient world, the representation of animals in Greek religion, archaeology, and fiction, and contextual readings of ancient Greek pottery. Dr. Smith has participated in field surveys and excavations across the Mediterranean, including southwest Turkey, Knossos in Crete, Kato Phana in Chios, Thebes in Greece, and Morgantina in Sicily. She currently serves as Lab Director and Director of Academic Programs for the Caesarea Coastal Archaeology Project in Israel, where she also co-directs the fieldschool. Additionally, she co-founded Kerameikos.org, a linked open data project for Athenian pottery, and heads a cohort focused on 3D scanning and printing antiquities at the Fralin Museum of Art at UVA. Dr. Smith has served as the Director of UVA’s Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program and is the Coordinator of the Mediterranean Archaeology PhD program. Her teaching includes courses on Classical Archaeology, Greek Art and Archaeology, Anatolian Archaeology, Art and Devotion, and Theory of Classical Archaeology. She has received multiple teaching awards, including the Z Society Distinguished Faculty Award in 2022. Her research…
Research topics
- Political Science
- Law
- Finance
- Economics
- Sociology
- Psychiatry
- Economic growth
- Criminology
- Demographic economics
- Social psychology
Selected publications
Greek and Roman Musical Studies · 2021-03-29 · 3 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingAbstract Drawing on the combined approaches of ancient Greek iconography, dance history, and the archaeology of ritual and religion, this paper examines dance gesture as a mechanism of ritual communication in ancient Greek vase-painting. After presenting the problems and limitations of matching art and text with regard to dance, as both Classical scholars and practitioners of modern dance have attempted, the paper expands on various ways of showing dance on vases. Special attention is given to k…
Orchêsis Kallinikos: Lillian B. Lawler's Greek Dance Legacy
The Classical World · 2020-01-01 · 2 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingLillian B. Lawler (1898–1990), a professor of classics and art history at several institutions in the United States, is best known as a scholar of ancient Greek dance. This paper, which is heavily based on archival research, presents details of Lawler's life and career and reveals a more complex figure than has previously been attested. Her prolific contributions to ancient dance studies are well-known and much-cited, yet her passion for Latin pedagogy and plays has up to now been largely forgot…
28 Heads or Tails? Satyrs, Komasts, and Dance in Black-Figure Vase-Painting
2021-06-21 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingA Lost Generation: Syrian Refugees and the Right to Education in Turkey
Fordham international law journal · 2018-01-01 · 1 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingReligious Studies Review · 2025-06-01
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Frequent coauthors
- 4 shared
Masha Schiller
John Brown University
- 4 shared
Susan Dickstein
- 4 shared
Arnold J. Sameroff
- 4 shared
M André
Université de Montréal
- 4 shared
Ronald Seifer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 3 shared
Lana O. Beasley
- 3 shared
Jane F. Silovsky
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- 3 shared
Ethan Gruber
Awards & honors
- Z Society Distinguished Faculty Award (2022)
- Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge Univ…
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