The Ohio State University The Department of History of Art The College of the Arts

Timothy McNiven—Associate Professor (Marion Campus)

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Timothy McNiven

Professor Mc Niven's primary areas of expertise are in the fields of Greek and Roman Art, with special emphases on the history of ceramics and gender issues in Greek art. His primary research interest focuses on the images of ancient Greek pottery and the use and meaning of gestures. He has been a consultant to the Department of Ancient Art at the Toledo Museum and is a member of the governing board of the Midwest Art history Society. He is a past winner of the Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (1996). He is also an amateur potter, and has an interest in the history of American art pottery, especially the Cincinnati pottery Rookwood.


Publications

    Articles & Essays

  • "Things to which we give service": Interactions with Sacred Images on Athenian Pottery," in Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, ed., 'Reading' Ancient Greek Images: Modes of Representation and Contemporary Methodologies (The Center for the Book, Athens, Greece) in press.
  • "Behaving Like a Child: Immature Gestures in Athenian Vase Painting," in A. Cohen and J. Rutter, eds., Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (American School of Classical Studies, 2007), pp. 85–99.
  • "Behaving Like an Other: Gender-specific Gestures in Athenian Vase Painting," in Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art, Beth Cohen, ed. (E. J. Brill, Leiden, 2000).
  • "Fear and Gender in Greek Art," in Diverse Approaches to the Study of Gender in Antiquity, Alison Rautman, ed. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000) 124–131.
  • "Dionysos and the Underworld in Toledo," Museum Helveticum 53 (1996) 25–36. Co-Author with Sarah Iles Johnston.
  • "The Unheroic Penis: Otherness Exposed," Source 15. 1 (1995) 10–16.
  • "Odysseus on the Niobid Krater," The Journal of Hellenic Studies 109 (1989) 191–198, pll. 2–3.

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

    Invited Lectures

  • "Significant Others: The Construction of Identity in Greek Art," Ohio University, October 17, 2007.

    • Seminars

  • Narrative in Greek Art
  • The Parthenon
  • Problems in Greek Vase Painting Studies
  • Women, Gender and Violence in Greek Art