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JULIA C. FISCHER
julia.fischer@lamar.edu
www.juliacfischer.com
Department of Art
Lamar University
1030 East Lavaca
Post Oce Box 10027
Beaumont, TX 77710
EDUCATION
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2014

Ph.D., History of Art, The Ohio State University

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
2004

M.A., Classical Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia

Thesis: The Tazza Farnese: A Reinterpretation
Major Area: Roman Art and Archaeology
Minor: Ancient Studies

2001

B.A. Classics, Art History, Loyola University Chicago

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, Department of Art

Lamar University, Beaumont, TX

2011 - 2013

Lecturer of Art History, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art

Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

2010 - 2011

Visiting Instructor of Art History, Department of Art History

Denison University, Granville, OH

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Art Appreciation
Honors Art Appreciation
Art Appreciation Online
Art History I
Art History I Online
Art History II

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Lamar University - Courses in Development

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Renaissance Art
Art and Crime
Asian Art
Ancient Art

Asian Art online

Medieval Art and Architecture
The Minor Arts of Antiquity
Baroque Art and Architecture
Art in Rome: An On-Site Course

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

The Ohio State University at Marion (Adjunct Instructor Spring 2011)

v Art History II

The Ohio State University (Graduate Instructor of Record and Graduate

Teaching Assistant 2005-2009)
v History of Art I (Graduate Instructor of Record and Graduate Teaching
Assistant)
v Introduction to World Cinema (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
v Great Monuments of Western Civilization (Graduate Teaching
Assistant)
v 19th and 20th Century Art (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
v Egyptian Art and Architecture (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
v Art of the Ancient World (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
v Art of the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds (Graduate Teaching
Assistant)

University of Missouri-Columbia (Graduate Teaching Assistant 2003-2004)

v History of Western Art II
v Baroque Art
v American Art and Architecture

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
v Tour Guide Leader in Vatican City: Vatican Museums and St. Peters
v Tour Guide Leader in Rome: Colisseum, Forum Romanum, Pantheon,
Piazza Navona, San Luigi dei Francesi, Sant Ignazio, Santa Maria
della Vittoria, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, and Capitoline Museums
v Tour Guide Leader in Florence: Accademia, Santa Croce, Uzi
Gallery, Bargello, and Santa Maria Novella
v Tour Guide Leader in Pisa: Campo dei Miracoli (Leaning Tower,
Cathedral, Baptistry, and Campo Santo)
v Tour Guide Leader in Assisi: Basilica di San Francesco and Santa
Maria degli Angeli
v Tour Guide Leader in Siena: Palazzo Publicco, Duomo, and Museo
dellOpera del Duomo
v Tour Guide Leader in Perugia: Piazza IV Novembre, Fontana
Maggiore, Corso Vannucci, and Perugina Chocolate Factory

PUBLICATIONS
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Edited Books
2017

Breaking Bad in Italian Art

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming in fall 2017

2016

More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Chapters in Edited Books

2017

Chapter One. Introduction: Breaking Bad in Italian Art



Breaking Bad in Italian Art



Chapter Three. Establishing a Roman Date and Interpretation for



the Tazza Farnese



Breaking Bad in Italian Art



Chapter Four. Caligula Goes Rogue in a Cameo Fragment



Breaking Bad in Italian Art



Chapter Eight. Felice Beato, Pioneering Travel Photographer



Breaking Bad in Italian Art
2016

Chapter One. Introduction: The Minor Arts of Italy

More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy, pp. 1-8

Chapter Three. A Womans Weapon: Private Propaganda in the

Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Empire
More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy, pp. 39-57

Books
2018

Art in Rome: An On-Site Course eTextbook

Self-published multimedia ebook, forthcoming in 2018

2015

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

Themes
Cognella Academic Publishing
(How to Speak Art Facebook page)

Peer-Reviewed Publications in Progress

2017

The Monuments Men in Japan



Journal of Art Crime, submitted for peer-review
Published Papers
2016




2008

Raiders of the Lost Art: The Monuments Men and Their Legacy
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award paper, forthcoming
Constructing a First Impression of Japan: Recreating a Photo
Album of Felice Beato
Knowledge Bank, The Ohio State University

Book Reviews (Peer-Reviewed)

2017

A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World,



edited by Rubina Raja and Jrg Rpke



The Classical Journal, forthcoming



A Companion to Roman Art edited by Barbara E. Borg



The Classical Journal, forthcoming



A History of Roman Art by Steven L. Tuck



The Classical Journal, forthcoming

Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting: The Virgin and Child
Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography by Jaroslave Folda
The Classical Journal, August 4
Luxus: The Sumptuous Arts of Greece and Rome by Kenneth
Lapatin
Bryn Mawr Classical Review, May 10
The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece by Judith M. Barringer
The Classical Journal, March 8

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]

2016

Web-Based Publications
2012 - 2015
Fischer Art History, www.fischerarthistory.com, Creator and Writer



Please note: This website is no longer active because its content was



transformed into my textbook, How to Speak Art
2011 - 2013

Smarthistory, Contributor

Press
2016

Art of War
Haley Bruyn, Lamar University Press, October 13
On-Campus @ Lamar University: Julia Fischer - Distinguished
Faculty Lecturer
KVLU Interview with Jason Miller, October 12
Raiders of the Lost Art topic of Distinguished Faculty Lecturer
Julia Fischer
Brian Sattler, News at Lamar, July 8

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
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 19-22

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

2015

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Annual AH 715 [Introduction to Graduate Studies] Symposium,
Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of MissouriColumbia, November 21
INVITED LECTURES
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Raiders of the Lost Art: The Monuments Men and Their Legacy
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Talk, Lamar University, October 18
Private Propaganda in Roman Imperial Cameos
Archaeological Institute of America, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
Chapter, February 16

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

2016

PUBLIC/COMMUNITY LECTURES
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2016

Portraits and Politics: The Roman Emperors

Veritas Christian Academy, Beaumont, TX, April 18
The Parthenon
Veritas Christian Academy, Beaumont, TX, April 11
How to Speak Art
Friends of the Arts, Beaumont, TX, March 3

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

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

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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, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

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Presidential Faculty Fellowship in Support of Teaching Innovation

Lamar University


Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award
Lamar University and ExxonMobil

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

2016




2013

Nominee, Award of Distinction for Teaching

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Georgia Southern 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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2012 - 2013

Sophia Learning
Art History Tutorial Reviewer

DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

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Lamar University
Departmental Service
Core Assessment Committee, 2015 - present
Faculty Library Representative, 2013 - present
Kappa Pi Honors Society, Faculty Representative, 2014 - present
Department of Art, Facebook and Twitter account manager, 2015 - present
Scholarship Committee, 2014 - present
Search Committee Chair (Art History Instructor), 2014-2015
Pre-College Summer Art Program, Session Instructor (Art and Crime course), 2014

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NASAD Accreditation Committee, 2013 - 2015
Recruitment Committee, 2014






College Service
Faculty Marshall, College of Fine Arts and Communications Commencement, 2014 - 2015
Search Committee Member (Dishman Art Museum Director), 2014
University Service
Javits Fellowship Representative, Honors College, 2015 - present
Portal Committee, 2015 - present
Georgia Southern University
Assessment Committee, Art in Life/General Education, 2013
Marshall, Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony, 2011 - 2013
ArtsFest Volunteer, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, 2011 - 2013
Academic Advising for BA Studio Majors, 2011 - 2013
Art History Majors - Graduate School Information Sessions, 2012
Tailgating Faculty Host, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, 2012



The Ohio State University
Curriculum Committee, 2007 -2008
GILD (Group for the Intellectual Life of the Department) Committee, 2005 - 2006
University of Missouri-Columbia
Co-President, Art History and Archaeology Graduate Student Association, 2003 -2004
Co-Symposium Coordinator, 2003 - 2003









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

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Reading: Excellent