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JULIA C. FISCHER
julia.fischer@lamar.edu
www.juliacfischer.com
Curriculum Vitae
February 3, 2016
Department of Art
Lamar University
1030 East Lavaca Post Oce Box 10027
Beaumont, TX 77710 (oce) 409-880-7784

EDUCATION
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Ph.D., History of Art, The Ohio State University, 2014
Dissertation: Private Propaganda: The Iconography of Large Imperial
Cameos of the Early Roman Empire
Major Areas: Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
Minor Areas: Asian Art and Modern Art
M.A., Classical Archaeology, Department of Art History and
Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004
Thesis: The Tazza Farnese: A Reinterpretation
Major Area: Roman Art and Archaeology
Minor: Ancient Studies
B.A. Classics, Loyola University Chicago, 2001
Thesis: Berninis Contribution to the Bel Composto
Major Areas: Art History and Classical Studies
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
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2013 - Present

Assistant Professor of Art History

Lamar University, Beaumont, TX

2011 - 2013

Lecturer of Art History

Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

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2010 - 2011

Visiting Instructor of Art History

Denison University, Granville, OH

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Lamar University

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Art Appreciation
Honors Art Appreciation
Art Appreciation Online
Art History I
Art History I Online
Art History II
Renaissance Art
Art and Crime
Asian Art
Ancient Art (Fall 2016)

Online Course Development

v Art History I (Lamar University, 2015)

v Art Appreciation (Lamar University, 2015)
v Monuments of Art (Georgia Southern University, 2012)

Georgia Southern University

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Art in Life [Art Appreciation]

Art of Asia
Art History I
Art and Crime
Art and Architecture of the Ancient World
Global Citizens (First Year Experience course)

Denison University
v Greek Art
v High Renaissance Art
v Art of Italy: Antiquity to the Baroque

Columbus College of Art and Design (Adjunct Instructor 2009-2011)

v Art 1400 to Contemporary
v Art, Design, and Culture I
v Art, Design, and Culture II
v History of Modern Design

STUDY ABROAD TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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2013

Montepulciano, Italy (Georgia Southern University, June-July)

v Introduction to Art [Art Appreciation]
v Art of Italy: Antiquity to the Baroque

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PUBLICATIONS
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Edited Books
2016

More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming in fall 2016

Chapters in Edited Books

2016

Introduction: The Minor Arts of Italy



More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy



A Womans Weapon: Private Propaganda in the Large Imperial



Cameos of the Early Empire



More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy
Books
2017

Art in Rome: An On-Site Course Textbook

Self-Published enhanced ebook and app, forthcoming in 2017

2015

How to Speak Art: Understanding Its Language, Issues, and

Themes
Cognella Academic Publishing

Peer-Reviewed Publications in Progress

2017

The Monuments Men in Japan



Journal of Art Crime, preparing submission for peer review in summer



2016
Book Reviews
2016

Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting: The Virgin and Child
Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography by Jaroslave Folda
The Classical Journal, forthcoming
The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece by Judith M. Barringer
The Classical Journal, submitted and forthcoming
Luxus: The Sumptuous Arts of Greece and Rome by Kenneth
Lapatin
Bryn Mawr Classical Review, submitted and forthcoming

2015

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture edited by Elisa A.

Friedland and Melanie Grunow Sobociski with Elaine K. Gazda
The Classical Journal, December 8

2006

The Language of Images in Roman Art by Tonio Hlscher

Religious Studies Review 32: 258 (2006) [published under Julia C.
Menes]

Web-Based Publications
2013 - 2014
Art and Crime course website, http://artandcrime.weebly.com,



Creator and Writer
2012 - 2015

Fischer Art History, www.fischerarthistory.com, Creator and Writer

Please note: This website is no longer active since its content was
transformed into my textbook, How to Speak Art

2011 - 2013

Smarthistory, Contributor

2008

Constructing a First Impression of Japan: Recreating a Photo

Album of Felice Beato
Knowledge Bank, The Ohio State University

Press
2015

The Miller Branch Library invites you on an art trip to Italy

Angela Wright, City of Beaumont, July 16
Take a tour through Paris at the Miller Library
Sharon Brooks, The Examiner, March 26
Fischer to Discuss City of Light in Pair of Lectures, April 24, May 5
Faith Roland, Lamar University Press, April 23

2013

Ill-Gotten Gains: How Many Museums Have Stolen Objects in Their

Collections?
Carl Franzen, The Verge, May 13

CHAIRED AND CO-CHAIRED CONFERENCE SESSIONS

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2016

Breaking Bad in Italian Visual Culture

Southeastern College Art Conference, Roanoke, VA, October 19-22

2015

More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy

American Association of Italian Studies Annual Conference, Boulder,
CO, March 26-28

2014

Raiders of the Lost Art: Issues of Looting in Visual Culture

Southeastern College Art Conference, Sarasota, FL, October 8-11
Co-Chaired with Ashley Elston, Berea College

2013

Art and Crime: The Dark Side of Art History

Southeastern College Art Conference, October 30-November 2

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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2016

Bad Boy, Bad Boy: Caligula Goes Rogue in a Cameo Fragment

Southeastern College Art Conference, Roanoke, VA, October ??

2015

An Iconographic Melting Pot: The Tazza Farnese, Gemma

Augustea, and Grand Came de France
Southeastern College Art Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 21-24
A Womans Weapon: Private Propaganda in the Gemma Augustea
and Grand Came de France
American Association of Italian Studies Annual Conference, Boulder,
CO, March 26-28

2014

The Monuments Men in Japan

Southeastern College Art Conference, Sarasota, FL, October 8-11

2013

To the Victor Go the Spoils: Looting in the Roman Empire

Southeastern College Art Conference, Greensboro, NC, October
30-November 2
From Rags to Riches: The Iconographic Evolution in Roman
Cameos of the Early Empire
Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle, WA, January 3-6

2012

Roman Relief Sculpture and Imperial Cameos: Iconographic

Borrowing in the Early Empire
Southeastern College Art Conference, Durham, NC, October 17-20
Everything is Not As It Seems: Reconstructing Felice Beatos
Japan
Midwest Art History Society Conference, Wichita, KS, March 29-31

2009

Roman Relief Sculpture and Imperial Cameos: An Iconographic

Investigation of Public and Private Art in the Early Empire
Dissertation Colloquium, The Ohio State University, June 11

2008

Constructing a First Impression of Japan: Recreating a Photo

Album of Felice Beato
22nd Annual Edward Hayes Graduate Research Forum, The Ohio State
University, April 19
Ad majorem dei gloriam: The Power of Pozzos Perspective in the
Nave Fresco of Sant Ignazio in Rome
Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Art History and
Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, February 29-March 1

2007

Luo Gonglius Mao Zedong at Jinggang Shan: The Influence of the

Peredvizhniki
21st Annual Edward Hayes Graduate Research Forum, The Ohio State
University, April 21
Chinese Socialist Realism: The Influence of the Peredvizhniki
Quarterly Graduate Student Symposium, Department of the History of
Art, The Ohio State University, February 23

2004

The Tazza Farnese: Hellenistic of Roman?

12th Annual University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Kansas at
Lawrence Art History and Archaeology Graduate Student Symposium,
March 6

2002

Reconstructing a Roman Season Sarcophagus

Annual AH 715 [Introduction to Graduate Studies] Symposium,
Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of MissouriColumbia, November 21

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INVITED LECTURES
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2016

The Colosseum
Veritas Christian Academy, Beaumont, TX, April 18
Augustus and Roman Imperial Portraits
Veritas Christian Academy, Beaumont, TX, April 11
The Parthenon
Veritas Christian Academy, Beaumont, TX, April 4
How to Speak Art
Friends of the Arts, Beaumont, TX, March 1
Private Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early
Roman Empire
Archaeological Institute of America, Valparaiso University, IN Chapter,
February 16

2015

The Sistine Chapel

R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, October 9
Michelangelos Sculpture
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, October 2
Italian Renaissance Painting in the Uzi Gallery
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, September 11
Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, and the Palace of Versailles
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, May 1
Highlights of the Muse dOrsay
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, April 24
Masterpieces of the Louvre
R.C. Miller Public Library, Beaumont, TX, April 17

2014

For Your Eyes Only: Private Propaganda in Roman Imperial

Cameos
Academic Enhancement Workshop, Lamar University, February 19

2012

Vote For Me!: Politics in Ancient Roman Cameos

Great Minds Lecture Series, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences,
Georgia Southern University, April 30

2011

Art and Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia

Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, July 8
Egypt and the Art of the Pharaohs
Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, June 10
Highlights of Asian Architecture
Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, February 4
Pictures of the Floating World: 19th Century Japanese Ukiyo-e
Prints
Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, January 14

2010

Modern European Art: 1900-1940

Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, June 18
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Upper Arlington Library, Upper Arlington, OH, June 11

AWARDS AND GRANTS

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2013

Nominee, Award of Distinction for Teaching

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Georgia Southern University

2009

Pyne-Snow Travel Grant

Department of History of Art, The Ohio State University

2008

1st Place, The Arts, Constructing a First Impression of Japan:

Recreating a Photo Album of Felice Beato
Edward Hayes Graduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University

CERTIFICATIONS
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2012

Developing and Teaching Online Courses

Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship, Georgia Southern
University

CONSULTING
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2016

2012 - 2013

AP Reader, Art History, College Board

Salt Lake City, UT, June 2-10
Sophia Learning
Art History Tutorial Reviewer

SERVICE
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2016

Core Assessment Committee

Lamar University
Faculty Library Representative
Lamar University
Kappa Pi Honors Society, Faculty Representative
Lamar University

2015

Core Assessment Committee

Lamar University
Faculty Marshall, December Commencement
Lamar University
Javits Fellowship Representative
Honors College, Lamar University
Department of Art, Facebook and Twitter account manager
Lamar University
Portal Committee
Lamar University
Scholarship Committee

Lamar University
Faculty Library Representative
Lamar University
Kappa Pi Honors Society, Faculty Representative
Lamar University

2014

Search Committee Chair (Art History Instructor)

Lamar University
Faculty Marshall, December Commencement
Lamar University
Search Committee Member (Director of the Dishman Art Gallery)
Lamar University
Pre-College Summer Art Program, Session Instructor (Art and Crime
course)
Lamar University
Recruitment Committee
Lamar University
NASAD Accreditation Committee
Lamar University
Kappa Pi Honors Society, Faculty Representative
Lamar University
Scholarship Committee
Lamar University

2013

2012

Scholarship Committee
Lamar University
NASAD Accreditation Committee
Lamar University
Assessment Committee - Art in Life (General Education)
Georgia Southern University
Volunteer, Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Georgia Southern University
ArtsFest Volunteer, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art
Georgia Southern University

Academic Advising for BA Studio Majors

Georgia Southern University
Art History Majors - Graduate School Information Sessions
Georgia Southern University
Tailgating Faculty Host, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art
Georgia Southern University
Volunteer, Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Georgia Southern University
ArtsFest Volunteer, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art
Georgia Southern University

2007 - 2008

Curriculum Committee
Department of History of Art, The Ohio State University

2005 - 2006

GILD [Group for the Intellectual Life of the Department] Committee

Department of History of Art, The Ohio State University

2003 - 2004

Co-President, Art History and Archaeology Graduate Student

Association
University of Missouri-Columbia
Co-Symposium Coordinator
University of Missouri-Columbia

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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American Association of Italian Studies

Italian Art Society
Southeastern College Art Conference
Midwest Art History Society
Archaeological Institute of America
College Art Association

LANGUAGES
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Italian
Reading: Excellent, Speaking: Basic
German
Reading: Excellent
French
Reading: Excellent
Ancient Greek
Reading: Excellent
Latin
Reading: Excellent