Birth: August 26, 1940 at Lake Charles, Louisiana
Education:
Louisiana State University, 1958-1961 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1961-62 (B.A.- Latin) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1962-68 (Ph.D.- Art History; Dissertation: "Rubens and Antique Coins and Gems") American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, Summer School, 1961 Excavations at Winchester, England (Volunteer), Summer, 1964 American Academy in Rome, Italy, Summer Seminar, 1979
Professional Assignments:
Graduate Instructor in Latin, U. of N. Carolina, 1964-65 Instructor in Art History, U. of N. Carolina, 1965-66 (full-time) Instructor (part-time) in Classics and in Art History, Florida State University, 1968-1970, 1976-77 Assistant Professor of Classics, Florida State University, 1977-1982 Associate Professor of Classics, Florida State University, 1982-1989 Professor of Classics, Florida State University, 1989- Visiting Associate Professor in Classics, University of North Carolina, 1989-1990 Director, Florida State University Excavations at Cetamura del Chianti, 1983-
Fellowships:
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1962-1963 Kress Fellowship, 1964-1965 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Fellowship for seminar at American Academy in Rome, 1979
Grants:
National Endowment for the Humanities, for a museum exhibition, "Reflections on the Etruscan Mirror," 1981 FSU Committee on Faculty Research, funding for European travel in connection with Etruscan exhibition, 1981 Developing Scholar Award, Florida State University, 1982-1983 FSU Foundation President's Fund, for travel to Italy to direct excavations; 1984, 1986- 1987 FSU Committee on Faculty Research, funding for drawings and photographs of Etruscan mirrors
Honors:
Florida State University Distinguished Teaching Award, 1986 Publications:
Books:
A Guide to Etruscan Mirrors, editor and author (funded by National Endowment for the Humanities; Tallahassee, 1982) The Etruscans: Legacy of a Lost Civilization, from the Vatican Museums, catalogue by Francesco Buranelli; translated and edited with an introduction by N. T. de Grummond (Memphis 1992) A Dictionary of the History of Classical Archaeology, editor and author; under contract with Greenwood Press
Articles:
"Brutus and Seneca," in Prints After Rubens (Chapel Hill, 1968), 46-48. "Giorgione's Tempest: The Legend of St. Theodore," L`Arte, 18-19/20 (1972), 4-53. "Rubens, Peiresc and the Portland Vase, " Southeastern College Art Conference Review, 7 (1974), pp. 6-11. "The Real Gonzaga Cameo," American Journal of Archaeology, 78 (1974), 427-429. "VV and Related Inscriptions in Giorgione, Titian, and Durer," Art Conference Review, 7 (1974), pp. 6-11. "The Real Gonzaga Cameo," American Journal of Archaeology, 78 (1974), 427-429. "VV and Related Inscriptions in Giorgione, Titian, and Durer," Art Bulletin 57 (1975), 346-356. "Helena Fourment and Rubens, Venus and Apelles," Southeastern College Art Conference Review, 9 (1976), 27-35. "A Seventeenth-Century Book on Classical Gems," Archaeology 30 (1977), 14-25. "Hercules Subduing Discord," "Brutus," and "Seneca," in Peter Paul Rubens in Prints (Williamsburg, 1977), 8-10. "Poussin e gli specchi etruschi," Prospettiva, no. 20 (1980), 72-80 (w. Larissa Bonfante) "Reflections on the Etruscan Mirror," Archaeology, 34, no. 5 (1981), 54-58. "Some Landscape Conventions in Etruscan Art," Antike Kunst 25, no. 1 (1982), 3-14. "Towards a History of Archaeology: New Books," Archaeological News 11 (1982), 11-14. "The Study of Classical Costume by Philip, Albert and Peter Paul Rubens," Journal of the Ringling Museum of Art (1983), 78-93. "The Etruscan Mirror," Source 4 (1985) 26-35. "Etruschi, gli specchi," FMR, no. 35 (1985) 129-141. "LAUSINI: An Etruscan Inscription from Cetamura del Chianti," Studi Etruschi, 52,(1985), 276-277. (w. Helmut Rix) "The Rediscovery of the Etruscans," ch. I in Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies, ed. Larissa Bonfante (Detroit, 1986). "Excavations at Cetamura del Chianti, 1983-84," Archaeological News 14 (1985), 29-38. "Wounded Souls: Etruscan Ghosts and Michelangelo's 'Slaves,'" Analecta Romana 17-18(1989), 99-116 (w. Larissa Bonfante). "Pax Augusta and the Horae on the Ara Pacis Augustae," American Journal of Archaeology 94(1990), 663-677. "Portraits of Augustus and his Family in the Albacini Collection," Journal of the History of Collections 3 (1991), 167-181. "Mitologia, iconagrafia, religione," ("Mythology, Iconography, and Religion"), in Gens Antiquissima Italiae: Antichita dell'Umbria a New York (Perugia, 1991), 95-98, 99-101. "The Etruscan Settlement at Cetamura del Chianti," in Gli Etruschi nel Chianti, vol. 15 (1991) of the "Il Chianti, Storia Arte Cultura Territorio, 49-68. "Etruscan Twins and Mirror Images: The Dioskouroi at the Door," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1991), 10-31. "The Etruscans: Legacy of a Lost Civilization," Minerva, 3, no. 3 (1992), 6-9. "Ancient Italic Peoples," in Encyclopedia Brittanica, vol. 20 (1992), 272-280.
Forthcoming:
"Scavi a Cetamura del Chianti, 1983-84," in Studi e Materiali della Soprintendenza Archeologica della Toscana "Greek Pottery, Collecting and Collections of," in The Dictionary of Art (to be published by Macmillan Publishers, Ltd.)
Editing:
Founder and editor, Archaeological News, vols. 1-14 (1972-1985)
Memberships, Committees:
Archaeological Institute of America (Life Member); College Art Association; International Association of Classical Archaeology Secretary-Treasurer of the Tallahassee Society of the AIA (15 years) Committees of the AIA: Program (Chair, 1977); Executive; Nominating; Gold Medal Award (Chair, 1980, 1983);Archives (Chair, 1988-92); Governing Board
Exhibitions, Symposium, Conference Organized
"Cypriot Sculpture and Pottery from the Cesnola Collection," Art Gallery of Florida State University, 1969 "Antiquities in Florida: Old World and New World," Art Gallery of Florida State University, 1976 Symposium,"What is Etruscan?" (first regional symposium sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America), Tallahassee, 1976 "Reflections on the Etruscan Mirror," The Museum of Florida History, 1981 First Annual Conference on Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology, Tallahassee, 1987