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Award Winning Author Lectured at Manhattanville
3.30.08
On Sunday, March 30th, Manhattanville College welcomed Professor Joan Breton Connolly of New York University. She presented a lecture entitled “Unearthing the Lost History of Greek Priestesses,” based on her award winning book Portrait of a Priestess. Assistant Professor Megan Cifarelli of the Department of Art History and Dr. Peter Feinman of the Westchester Society of the Archaeological Institute of America welcomed an audience of more than 125 people, including Manhattanville students, faculty, and members of the local community. The lecture and reception were jointly sponsored by Manhattanville College and the Archaeological Institute of America.
Joan Breton Connelly is a classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University. A field archaeologist, she has worked in Greece, Kuwait, and Cyprus, where she is Director of the NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Archaeological Institute of America’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (in 2007), and she has held the Lillian Vernon Chair for Teaching Excellence at New York University (2002-2004). A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Geographical Society, The Explorers Club, and the Society of Women Geographers, Connelly has served on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of State, since 2003. She has been reappointed to the Committee through 2009 by President George W. Bush.
Portrait of a Priestess has been named among the “100 Notable Books of 2007” by the New York Times Book Review and has won the Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Press Award for Excellence in Classics and Ancient History.