ISAW Research Associate appointed Faculty Fellow at NYU

ISAW Research Associate Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta has been appointed a Faculty Fellow in the Department of Art History at New York University. Her appointment is for a three year period and she will begin teaching courses in Roman art and architecture in September 2015.

Anne is an art historian and archaeologist specializing in the urbanism, architecture, and social history of republican Rome. She received her MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and a BA in anthropology from the University of Alberta. Anne is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where she has taught architectural history in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and the Environment since 2009. She has published on topics related to roman sculpture, epigraphy and gladiators, as well as the Greco-Roman city of Aphrodisias.

At ISAW, Anne has been working on the publication of her dissertation, which investigated the origins, urban context, and architectural development of the freestanding Roman arch between 198 BCE and 64 CE.