Curriculum Vitae

Senta C. German Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology University Engagement Programme University of Oxford Beaumont Street Oxford OX1 2PH [email protected] Education PhD MPhil MA BA

Columbia University Columbia University Columbia University Temple University

4 Merrivale Square Waterside Oxford OX2 6QX + 44 (0)7557 024 054 [email protected]

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Art History & Archaeology Art History & Archaeology Art History & Archaeology Archaeology, Honors, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Museum, Collection and Archaeological Employment: Andrew W Mellon Foundation Teaching Curator, University Engagement Programme Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Oxford, 2012- present. Teach with museum collections broadly across the university curricula, create and curate teaching collections, work with faculties to embed object-based learning in syllabi, consult on curricular aspects of museum display. Communications Consultant, part-time, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2000-2003. Managed campus art installation projects; contributed to initial planning and budget for historical exhibition; worked with program staff on grant procurement and assessment tools. Director, DePree Art Gallery, Hope College, 1999-2000, planned and curated exhibitions including the oversight of gallery budget and employees, managed patron relations, and contributed to planning of capital campaign. Archivist, Diana Ross, RTC Management, part-time, 1996-1997, Managed comprehensive project to consolidate and preserve the personal and professional collections of superstar diva. Evaluated and arranged for preservation materials including costumes, memorabilia, and original audio and visual recordings. Curatorial Assistant, part-time, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, fact checking for exhibition catalog, The Royal City of Susa. Staff Archaeologist, part-time, SJS Archaeological Services, Conshohoken, PA 1987-1991. Participated in all aspects of historic and prehistoric field work, artifact processing and report writing. Managed roll-out of EDM use in field projects. Academic Employment Montclair State University, Dual Associate Professorship, Departments of Art & Design and Classics & General Humanities, 2003-2012. New York University, Adjunct Lecturer, 2009-2012. Hope College, Department of Art and Art History, Assistant Professor, 1999-2000.

German page 2 Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Lecturer, 1994-5, 1998-9. Other Academic Affiliations Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Senior Common Room, elected honorary member, 2014-2017 Archaeological Institute of American, Northern New Jersey Society, Director, 2004-2008 The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, Associate Member, 1995-6 Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel, Marburg, Germany, Visiting Member 1995-6 Columbia University Seminar, Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and the Near East, Seminar Rapporteur,1992-4 Publications Books: In Preparation Women in the Greek Bronze Age. Malden: Wiley Blackwell. 2005 Performance, Power and the Art of the Aegean Bronze Age. Oxford: Archaeopress. Articles: Accepted with Revisions: “Erotica and the Zakros Sealings,” 30 page manuscript, Kadmos. Submitted: Co-author, Fiona Rose-Greenland, “WikiLoot: The Possibilities and Perils of Crowdsourcing the Illicit Antiquities Trade”. Submitted to the Journal of Field Archaeology. In preparation: “A Case of Identity: Who is Represented in Late Cycladic II Sculpture?” 2011 “’An Ancient Lady Visits’ Christie's: Understanding the Dissipation of Cycladic Sculpture.” Vali Memon Occasional Paper, New York University. 2007 “Dance in Bronze Age Greece” The Journal of Dance Research. 39.2. 2005 “Photography and Fiction: the Publication of the Excavations at the Palace of Minos at Knossos” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 18.2: 209-230. 2002 “Tο Οικοδοµήµα στο Εσωτερικό τοϋ Σπηλαίου (The Building in the Interior of the Cave.)” co-authored with K. Polivou, P. Betancourt, S. McPherron, in Το Σπήλαίο της Αµνισοϋ: Η Ερευνα του 1992 (The Cave of Amnissos: The Investigations of 1992), P. Betancourt and N. Marinatos eds. Αρχαιολόγικη Εφηµερίς 2000. 1999 “The Politics of Dancing: A Reconsideration of the Motif of Dancing in Bronze Age Greece.” Betancourt, Philip P., Vassos Karageorghis, Robert Laffineur, and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier. Eds. Meletemata: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year. Vol. I. Université de Liège, Histoire de l’art et archéologie de la Grèce antique; University of Texas at Austin: Programs in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory. p. 279-282 Chapters/Encyclopedia/Catalogue Entries: In press: 15 entries in Treasures of the Ashmolean. Kapon Editions. 2012 “Unprovenienced Artifacts and the History of Minoan and Mycenaean Religion,” in All the King's Horses: Looted or Unprovenienced Artifacts and the Valid Construction of the Past. A. Barker and P. Lazrus eds. Altimira Press.

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“Politics and the Bronze Age Origins of the Olympics” in G. Schaus ed. Onward to the Olympics: Historical Perspectives on the Olympics Games. Willifred Laurier University Press. "The Cove of Megali Ammos (Sites H2, H3, H4, H15 and H31)" with Philip Betancourt, Richard Hope Simpson, and Natalia Poulou-Papadimitriou, in Pseira IX: The Archaeological Survey of Pseira Island Part 2, The Intensive Surface Survey, P.P. Betancourt, C. Davaras and R. Hope-Simpson, eds., Philadelphia: Instap Academic Press, 2005. The Human Form in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, Rautman, Alison E., ed. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press. “Minoan Religion,” The Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion. Serinity Young, Editor in Chief, Macmillan Reference. “The Parthenon,” Art Humanities Gender Resource Kit, Pamela M. Fletcher, ed., New York: Columbia University, Institute for Research on Women and Gender. The Excavation of the Hoops Pasture Site, Glenn Sheehan, Anne Jensen, Senta German. Report Submitted to the New Jersey State Historical Preservation Officer.

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‘The good is oft interred with their bones’: The Bioarchaeology of Women in the Aegean Bronze Age. (45 minutes) Minoan Crete: The People Behind the Palaces, University of Oxford, School of Continuing Education Day School. WikiLoot: The Possibilities and Perils of Crowdsourcing the Illicit Antiquities Trade. (20 minutes) The Past for Sale? The Economic Entanglements of Cultural Heritage. UMass Center for Heritage and Society. An Ancient Lady Visits Christie's: Understanding the Dissipation of Cycladic Sculpture (30 minutes). Vali Menon Symposium, 'Art or Artifact?: Cultural Heritage in Transition', New York University. Anatomical Knowledge and the Visual Representation of Gender in the Aegean Bronze Age (20 minutes). Anatomical Knowledge in the Ancient World: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity, University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, UK. Early Iron Age Dance: An Exploration of the Continuity of a Bronze Age Social Practice (20 minutes). 105th Annual Archaeological Institute of America Convention, San Francisco, CA. Politics and the Bronze Age Origins of the Olympics (20 minutes). Onward to the Olympics: Historical Perspectives on the Olympics Games. Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Sir Arthur Evans and Early 20th Century Excavation Method: A Matter of Closed Context. (20 minutes). Annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, St. Petersburg, Russia. A Reconsideration of Bronze Age Dress (20 minutes). The Clothed Body in the Ancient World. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. The Relationship between Bronze Age Crete and Iron Age Sparta: New Evidence? (30 minutes). Calvin College, Classics Seminar.

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Image and Power: the Origins of Political Art in the Bronze Age Aegean (60 minutes). Northern New Jersey AIA local chapter, Montclair State University. The Politics of Dancing: The Representation of Dancing Women and Late Bronze Age Palatial Society (20 minutes). 99th Annual Archaeological Institute of America Convention, Washington, DC. Gesture and Visual Communication in Minoan Art (20 minutes). Temple University Graduate Aegean Art Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Erotics and Power: A Reexamination of the Zakros Sealings (20 minutes). 97th Annual Archaeological Institute of America Convention, New York, NY. The Gendered Human Form in the Late Bronze Age Aegean (20 minutes). Classical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. Erotica and Animals: the Semiotics of Power in Minoan and Mycenaean Glyptic Art (30 minutes). University of Missouri-Columbia Graduate Symposium, Erotica Semiotica: Sex and Gender in the Visual Arts, Columbia, MO. The Archaeology of Gender: Its Proper Fit in Theory Building, Research and the Classroom (60 minutes). The Finley Forum, The British School at Athens, Greece. Deconstructing the Goddess: The Introduction of Scientific Analysis and Gender Studies to the Glyptic of the Aegean Bronze Age (20 minutes). Boston University, Department of Archaeology Open Forum for Graduate Students, Boston, MA. Alexander's Legacy: The Impact of Greek History on the Modern Balkans (20 minutes). Third Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Classical Tradition, Boston, MA. Sindos and the Archaeology of Ethnicity (20 minutes). Yale University Graduate Symposium on Art and Archaeology: Mediterranean Interactions, New Haven, CT. The Image of the Nude Female in the Sealings From Mashkan Shapir (15 minutes). Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Day, New York, NY.

Archaeological and Material Study Experience England: British Museum, London, material study, 2004 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, material study, 2004 Greece: Archaeological Museum of Sparta, Greece, materials study, 2003 National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece, materials study, 1996 Toumba Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, Area Supervisor, Field School Instructor 1993-4 Palaikastro, Crete, Greece, Apotheke Staff, 1993 Pseira, Crete, Greece, Architectural Staff Supervisor, 1992, Excavation Staff 1989-91 Eileithyia Cave Excavations, Crete, Greece, Architectural Survey Supervisor, 1992 Megali Ammos at the Pseira Excavations, Crete, Greece, Excavation Director, 1990 Israel: Salybia I Excavations, Negev, Israel, Trench Supervisor, 1987

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Montague Island, Alaska, Archaeological Survey Staff, 1990 Matsunk, Pennsylvania, Trench Supervisor, 1986-7 Hoops Pasture Site, New Jersey, Excavation Staff, 1985 Valley Forge National Park, Pennsylvania, Excavation Staff, 1984

Awards and Fellowships Archaeological Institute of America, nominated for the Excellent in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2005. Montclair State University, Global Education Grant, Summer 2004. Columbia University, Aegean Fellow, Department of Art History & Archaeology, 1993-4, ‘96-8 Columbia University, Dissertation Traveling Fellowship, Department of Art History & Archaeology, 1995-6 Columbia University, Presidential Fellow, 1992-3 Phi Beta Kappa, Rho Chapter, Pennsylvania, Temple University Temple University, Nicholas P. Vlachos Memorial Award for Excellence in Classical Languages and Literature, 1991 Temple University, University Service Award, 1991 Temple University, College of Arts and Sciences, Alumni Award, 1991