Christopher A. Gregg

Christopher Gregg received his BA and MA degrees in Latin from the University of Georgia; he earned his doctorate in Classical Archaeology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2000 with the dissertation “The Legacy of Ganymede: Homoerotic Images in Roman Art.” Gregg’s research interests include urban development of Roman cities, the interpretation of mythological images in Roman homes, and the portraiture of Antinous. He has taught four times at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, most recently as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Charge for the 2016-2017 academic year. He has also been a visiting lecturer at UNC-Chapel Hill and The George Washington University. He has been a frequent speaker for the Smithsonian’s Resident Associate Program. Gregg’s archaeological field work includes four seasons as Registrar for the Kalamazoo College/University of Colorado Excavations at the Villa of Maxentius (Rome), two seasons as Registrar for the NC State Roman Aqaba Project (Jordan), and seven seasons as Registrar on the University of Georgia’s Yasmina Excavations at Carthage (Tunisia).

Selected Publications

2021 Engines of Education: Essays on the George Mason University Plaster

                Cast Collection. Editor. Mason Publishing.

2021 "Art or Artifact? Reappraising the Sleeping Satyr Plaster Cast." In 

                 Engines of Education: Essays on the George Mason University

                 Plaster Cast Collection. Mason Publishing: 1-23.

2020    "The memory of a favorite racehorse: a disc of the horse Alumnus

                 from the Yasmina cemetery at  Carthage in the context of other

                 circus-related iconography," in The Journal of Roman Archaeology,

                 Supplement 109, For the Love of Carthage. Edited by J. H. Humphrey.

                 Portsmouth, Rhode Island: 93-114.

2020    “Pompeii.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics. Ed. Ruth Scodel.

                New York: Oxford University Press, Launch date: February/March

                2011. Expanded and updated August 2020.

2018    Review: Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Sculpture, Volumes 1

                 and 2, by E. Angelicoussis (Munich 2017). In Collections: A Journal for Museum and

                Archives Professionals 14.1.

2015   Chapter 5: “Facilities on the Gianicolo.” The Centro at Fifty: The History

                of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, 1965-2015.  

                Edited by M. Boatwright, M. Maas, and C.Smith: 76-98.

 

Grants and Fellowships

Term Faculty Grant for the Development the study abroad program "Art and Memory in Rome and Florence." Co-authored by L. Bauman. Fall 2019.

GEO Global Studies Development Grant for the study abroad program "Art and Memory in Rome and Florence." Co-authored by L. Bauman. Fall 2019.

History and Art History Teaching Development Grant for proposed course on the Roman Army and Imperial Monuments. Spring 2019.

Courses Taught

Art History Seminars:

Curatorial Seminar on the Mason Plaster Cast Collection

Art in the Age of Augustus: Visualizing the Pax Augusta

Pompeii: the Living City

Roman Imperial Sculpture: Portraiture and Monuments

Topography and Monuments of Imperial Rome

300 Level Art History Courses:

Ancient Roman Art and Archaeology

Art of Ancient Greece

Hellenistic Greek Art: from Alexander to the Caesars

Pompeii: Window on the Roman Past

100 Level Art History Courses:

Stories and Symbols: Greek Myth in Ancient Art

For the Honors Program:

Pompeii: Window on the Roman Past

Education

Doctorate in Classical Archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2000)

Master's degree in Latin from the University of Georgia (1991)

Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin and Classical Civilization from the University of Georgia (1989)