Dr. Margaret Woodhull, Director of Humanities: MHMSS Programs

MARGARET L. WOODHULL
Master of Humanities and Master of Social Science Program
University of Colorado Denver
MC-01
Campus Box 127
Denver, CO 80217
Margaret.woodhull@ucdenver.edu
http://woodhull.net
303-352-3926
EDUCATION
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Ph.D. in Art History, December 1999. Dissertation: Building Power: Women as Architectural Patrons
During the Roman Empire, 30 BCE-54 CE
Co-advisors: John R. Clarke and Penelope J.E. Davies
M.A. in Art History, December 1993. Thesis: The “Deer Hunters” Sarcophagus at the San Antonio
Museum of Art: An Exploration of Carving Techniques and Style
Advisor: John R. Clarke
American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece
Summer Study Program, 1992
Georgetown University, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington, D.C.
B.A. in Art History, May 1988. Concentration in Renaissance and Modern art. Honors thesis: The
Symbolist Roots of Abstraction in the Art and Music of Wassily Kandinsky and Arnold Schoenberg
The Charles A. Strong Center, Villa le Balze, Fiesole (Florence), Italy
Study abroad program sponsored by Georgetown University, Academic year 1986-1987
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND GRANTS
2012 CLAS Dean’s Excellence Fund, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
2007 Faculty Development Grant, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
2001-2004 James F. Ruffin Endowed Professorship, Rhodes College, Memphis TN
2000 Haakon Teaching Fellowship, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
1999 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women’s Studies
1998 Wells Foundation Grant, Univ. of Texas, Austin
1998 Archaeological Institute of America, Graduate Student Annual Meeting Travel Award
1997-1998 Fulbright Fellowship, Rome, Italy
1997-1998 Woodruff Traveling Fellowship, Archaeological Institute of America (Croatia, Turkey,
Syria, Lebanon)
1996 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in Field Archaeology
1996 Tommy and Sherry Jacks Travel Grant, Univ. of Texas, Austin
1995 Eleanor Greenhill Travel Grant, Univ. of Texas, Austin
1993 Dean’s Travel Grant, Univ. of Texas, Austin
1988 David Lloyd Kreeger Award for Scholarship in Art History, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC

EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010 Aug. to Present Director, Master of Humanities Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
University of Colorado Denver
Duties: Oversee and manage ca. 100-student graduate program, including advising
students, teaching graduate seminars every semester, developing program publicity,
alumni outreach, organizing Advisory Board meetings, curriculum development,
developing assessment plans, managing and evaluating staff, managing program
budget, organizing annual symposia and guest lecturers, working with Deans, faculty,
staff and campus administrators to ensure smooth program operations, work with CU
Foundation on program development and external funding, develop community
outreach programs
Courses: Graduate Seminars: Visual Arts: Interpretations and Contexts; Humanistic
Impulse; Sex, Gender, and Visual Representation: Antiquity to the Present; The City in
History and Theory; Beauty, Power, and the Sacred in Art and Culture; Art and Culture
of Empires: Visual Constructions of Identity in the Age of Modern Imperialism; and
Caves to Cathedrals to Contemporary Art; Humanities Methods and Texts (program
core curriculum); Directed Readings and Research in Interdisciplinary Humanities
(program core curriculum); Imperial Designs: Art and Power in Athens and Rome;
Roman Identities: Culture and Identity in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Thought;
Women in the Arts in the Ancient Mediterrenean, Graduate Survey in Architectural
History I.
2005 to May 2010 Assistant Director and Senior Instructor, Master of Humanities and Master of Social
Science Programs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado
Denver
Duties were similar to the above
2005 Spring Instructor, Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Program; adjunct instructor, Department
of Architecture, University of Colorado, Denver
Courses: Graduate seminar : Imperial Designs: Art and Power in Classical Athens and
Rome; Graduate lecture course: History of Architecture I
2001 to 2004 James F. Ruffin Endowed Professorship in Classical Art and Archaeology, (Asst. Prof.)
Department of Art and Art History, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Courses: Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome; Art and Architecture of Ancient
Greece; Art and Architecture of Egypt and the Ancient Near East; Archaeological
Methods; Women in the Arts in the Ancient Mediterranean; Art of Augustan Rome;
Pompeii; Greek and Roman Sculpture; Cities and Sanctuaries of the Classical World;
Search for Values in Light of Ancient History and Religion (core curriculum
interdisciplinary Humanities course)
2000-2001 Visiting Asst. Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Art History, Rice
University, Houston, TX
Courses: Introduction to Art History, Greek Art and Architecture, Roman Art and
Architecture, Roman Architecture.
2000 Summer Visiting Asst. Professor, Southern Methodist University, Summer Study Abroad Program,
Italy
Courses: five-week Art History course on art of Italy from the Classical to Baroque
2000 Spring Haakon Teaching Fellow (Asst Professor), Div. of Art History, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, TX
Courses: graduate seminar: Women and Patronage in the Classical World, and
undergraduate lecture course: Greek and Roman Sculpture
1997-1999 Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History,
and the University Extension Program

Courses: Introduction to the Visual Arts
1994-1995 Research Assistant for Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor, University of Texas at Austin,
Department of Art and Art History. Research for John R. Clarke. Assisted research
and performed editorial duties for book, Looking at Lovemaking, numerous articles, and
public lectures; systematized photograph and slide collection.
1996-1991 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History.
MUSEUM EMPLOYMENT
1998-99 Curatorial Assistant, San Antonio Museum of Art. Wrote entries on ancient sculpture
for the San Antonio Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections; edited and contributed to
the museum’s sculpture catalogue written by C. Vermeule.
1989-1991 Archives Technician, Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Washington,
D.C. Processed and catalogued collections for on-line catalog system; produced finding
guide for archival collections covering WPA art projects; implemented basic
conservation and preservation techniques for archival collections; provided reference
services to patrons.
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND REVIEWS
"Maternal Space in Imperial Rome," in Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome, edd. Lauren
Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell, Austin, TX: University of Texas
Press, Fall 2011.
Book review of Natalie Boymel Kampen, Family Fictions in Roman Art, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2009; and Caroline Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome,
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007 for Aurora: The Journal of the History
of Art 10 (Fall 2009).
Book review of Personification in the Greek World: From Antiquity to Byzantium. Edd. E. Stafford and J.
Herrin (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Press, 2005) for Aurora: The Journal of the History of
Art 7 (Fall 2006).
“A New Face to Patronage: The Empress Livia and the Politics of Building in Early Imperial Rome.”
The Proceedings of the International Association of Linguistics and Behavioral Sciences.
November 2004. (non-refereed)
“Matronly Patrons in the Early Roman Empire: the Case of Salvia Postuma,” in Women’s Influence on
Culture in Antiquity. Ed. Fiona McHardy and Eiranne Marshall (Routledge Press, 2004)
75-91.
“Engendering Space: Octavia’s Portico in Rome.” Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art 4 (Fall 2003)
13-33.
Book review of The Art of Ancient Spectacle. Edd. Bettina Bergmann and Christine Kondoleon (NGA,
Yale Univ. Press, 1999) for Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art 2 (Fall 2001) 136-42.
Abstract “Antiquarianism and Political Legitimacy in Claudian Archtiecture.” American Journal of
Archaeology, 105.2 (April 2001) 283.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES IN PREPARATION
Women Building Rome: Gender and the Built Environment in the Early Roman Empire. A book-length study of
women’s architectural patronage in early imperial Rome. Prospectus submitted to
Cambridge University Press, University of Michigan Press, and Oxford University
Press (Spring 2013). Draft completed Fall 2013 for submission.
“Rethinking Eumachia’s Building: Elite Women and Urban Space in Pompeii.” In preparation for
submission in Fall 2013.

“The Power of the Past in Claudian Architecture.” An article-length study of antiquarianism in the
architecture of the Roman emperor Claudius.
“Memory, Rhetoric, and the Design of Libraries in the Roman World.” An article-length study
positing a metaphorical relationship between the way Romans practiced mnemonic
strategies and the architectural design of libraries in classical antiquity
PUBLIC LECTURES
2013 June “Aesthetics, Agency and the Gendered Body of Architecture in Rome,” to be
presented at the American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe,
New Mexico (refereed conference paper)
2012 May “Breaking Down Barriers to Build the City: Theorizing Gender and Space in
Antiquity,” presented at Feminism and the Classics VI Conference, Brock University,
Ontario, Canada (refereed conference paper)
2009 January “Women Building Rome: Reconsidering the Porticus of Livia and Gender in Rome,”
presented to a joint session of the annual meetings of the American Philological
Association and Archaeological Institute of America and Women’s Classical Caucus in
Philadelphia (refereed conference paper)
2008 December "Women, Agency, and Public Patronage." Invited to lead a seminar of faculty at the
University of Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities, Lawrence, Kansas.
2007 July “Dynastic Designs: Women, Architecture and Patronage in Imperial Rome.” Second
International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Universidad de Granada, Granada,
Spain (refereed conference paper)
2005 September “The Empress Agrippina and the Politics of Architectural Patronage in Early
Imperial Rome.” 14 th Annual Conference of the Women’s History Network, Southampton
Institute, Southampton, UK (refereed conference paper)
2004 November “A New Face to Patronage: The Empress Livia and the Politics of Building in Early
Imperial Rome.” International Academy of Linguistics, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Annual
Meeting, Cancun, Mexico (refereed conference paper)
2002 April “Building Monarchy: Poisoned Mushrooms, Incest, and Agrippina’s Temple for the
Divine Claudius.” First Annual Ruffin Lecture, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2001 March “Eumachia’s Building in Pompeii: Civic Space for a Woman’s Face.” Rhodes College,
Memphis, TN
2001 January “Antiquarianism and Political Legitimacy in Claudian Architecture.” Archaeological
Institute of America, Annual Meetings, San Diego, CA (refereed conference paper)
2000 February "Room of her own?: Women, Architectural Patronage, and Feminine Concerns in the
Early Roman Empire." Haakon Lecture, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern
Methodist University
1999 March “Engendering spaces: Octavia’s portico in Rome.” Conference: Women Art Patrons and
Collectors: Past and Present, New York Public Library, New York, NY (refereed
conference paper)
1999 February “Building Identities: Architectural Patronage and Women in the Early Roman
Empire.” Archaeological Institute of America, Central Texas Society, Austin (invited
lecture)
1998 September “Women and Architectural Patronage. Alien Influences in the City.” An Alien
Influence: Women’s Role in Creating Culture, Dept. of Ancient History and Classics,
University of Exeter, England (refereed conference paper)
1998 December “Never out of sight: The case of Eumachia in Pompeii.” Archaeological Institute of
America, Annual Meetings, Washington D.C. (refereed conference paper)

1997 March “Women as Architectural Patrons: The Case of Salvia Postuma.” Midwest Art Historical
Society, Annual Conference, Dallas Texas (refereed conference paper)
1996 April Salvia Postuma’s Arch of the Sergii.” Mediterranean Interactions II. Yale University, New
Haven, CT (refereed conference paper)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2012 January Secretary of Board of Directors, RedLine, Denver, CO
2006 Fall Advisory Board Member, Public Humanities Center proposal to Dean of CLAS
2006 October Session Chair, “Memory be damned: The Obliteration of Monuments in Rome from
Antiquity to the Modern Era,” Conference: Constructions of Death, Mourning, and
Memory in the Visual Arts,” Organized by the WAPACC and Aurora: The Journal of the
History of Art, October 27-29, 2006, Woodcliff Lake, NJ
2002-2004. President of the Mid-south chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America
2002 April Session Chair, “Everything Old is New Again….Reuse of the Past in the Buildings of
Classical Antiquity,” Annual Meetings, Society of Architectural Historians, Richmond,
VA
EXCAVATION EXPERIENCE
1995-1996, 2000 Trench Supervisor, Mugello Valley Archaeological Project at Poggio Colla (Etruscan
site), Vicchio, Italy. Director: P. Gregory Warden.
TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
Extensive travel: Mexico, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Greece, France, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium,
England, Syria, Lebanon, and Libya
LANGUAGES
Reading Proficiency: Italian, French, German, Latin, ancient Greek, Spanish
Speaking Proficiency: Italian
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS
1991-Present Member, Archaeological Institute of America
1991-Present Member, College Art Association
1996-Present Member, Society of Architectural Historians
2002-2004 President, Archaeological Institute of America, Mid-south chapter (Memphis, TN)
Life member Women’s Classical Caucus
2004-Present Member, Midwest Art Historical Society
2003-2005 Member, American Association of University Women
1996-1999 Secretary, Archaeological Institute of America, Austin and Central Texas Society
1994 President, Art History Graduate Student Association, University of Texas, Austin