Sheila Dillon

Sheila Dillon is Anne Murnick Cogan Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University. She received a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her books include The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (2010); Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (2006), which was awarded the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in January 2008; Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias (2006); and an edited volume A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (2012). Her research interests focus on portraiture and public sculpture and on reconstructing the statuary landscape of ancient cities and sanctuaries. Her current research projects include the publication of the portrait statuary found in the Athenian Agora excavations, and statues and sculptors at the Amphiareion at Oropos.

Professor Dillon was a member of the Aphrodisias Excavations in Turkey from 1992-2004, has worked at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace, and now spends summers doing fieldwork in Athens. She has been a member of the American School community since the early 1990s, was the Kress Art History Fellow at the School in 1992–93, serves on the Managing Committee, has been on the Executive and Personnel Committees, the Committee on Admissions and Fellowships, and is currently the chair of the Publications Committee. She has been an NEH fellow and a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Professor Dillon served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology from 2013-2016.