109 Pickard Hall Columbia, Missouri 65211-1420   phone: 573-882-6711   fax: 573-884-5269   email: aha@missouri.edu

Susan Langdon

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Greek Art and Archaeology
Ph.D., Indiana University

mailing address:
Department of Art History and Archaeology
109 Pickard Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1420

phone: 573-882-9495
fax: 573-884-5269
email: LangdonS at missouri dot edu

Teaching

• AHA 1110: History of Western Art, I
• AHA 3005: Topics: Art and Gender in the Ancient World
• AHA 3210: Near Eastern and Egyptian Art and Archaeology
• AHA 3310: Greek Art and Archaeology
• AHA 4340/7340 Greek Architecture
• AHA 4350/7350: Greek Pottery
• AHA 4360/7360: Greek Sculpture
• AHA 4996/8100 Intriduction to Graduate Studies
• AHA 8320 Seminar in Greek Art and Archaeology

Research

I specialize in Geometric art and the material culture of early Greece. My research has focused on historiographic, iconographic, and contextual approaches to exploring gender and society, with a particular emphasis on sculpture and painting. In 1993 I curated the traveling exhibition From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer. My current projects include a monograph on gender and ritual in early Greek art, and a study of the Archaic terracottas from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in Corinth.

Recent publications

The Return of the Horse-Leader, American Journal of Archaeology 93 (1989) 185-201

From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer, exhibition catalogue (University of Missouri Press, 1992)

Artifact and Assemblage: The Finds from a Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Greece, I. The Prehistoric and Early Iron Age Pottery and the Lithic Artifacts (Stanford University Press, 1995), with C. N. Runnels and D. J. Pullen

New Light on a Dark Age: Papers from a Symposium accompanying the Exhibition "From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer" (University of Missouri Press, 1997)

Significant Others in Geometric Art: An Early Greek Image Lost and Found, American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998) 251-70

Figurines and Social Change: Visualizing Gender in Dark Age Greece, in From the Ground Up: Beyond Gender Theory in Archaeology. Proceedings of the Fifth Gender and Archaeology Conference. British Archaeological Reports, 1999.

Beyond the Grave: Biographies From Early Greece, American Journal of Archaeology 105 (2001) 579-606

Trial by Amazon: Thoughts on the First Amazons in Greek Art, in Ancient Journeys: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Numa Lane, www.stoa.org

The Awkward Age: Art and Maturation in Early Greece, in A. Cohen and J. Rutter, eds., Constructions of Childhood in the Ancient World, forthcoming.

Greek funerary krater

Artifact & Assemblage
1995

New Light on a Dark Age
1997

From Pasture to Polis
1993