Ada Cohen
Associate Professor
Ancient Greece, Egypt & Near East
Ph.D., M.A. Harvard University, 1990
B.A., Brandeis University
e: ada.cohen@dartmouth.edu
tel: 646-1332
office: 204 Carpenter
Art History 1, Introduction to Art History I
Art History 20, Art of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East
Art History 21, Art of Greece, Prehistoric to Classical
Art History 22, Late Classical and Hellenistic Art
Art History 82, Sex, Gender and Identity in the Ancient World
Ada Cohen also teaches First-Year and advanced seminars, and regularly teaches the Senior Culminating Seminar on theory and methods in Art History. In addition, she has directed the Art History Department's Foreign Study Program in Rome.
Special Interests
Her research has focused on the era of Alexander the Great and the impact of Alexander's image and legacy on later art. She has also worked on topics in Near Eastern and prehistoric art; sexuality and the construction of pictorial identity; travel and landscape; as well as the depiction of childhood and the family in ancient art. Her book titled "Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and their Cultural Traditions" is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Her current book project is titled "'He pais kale': Beauty and Women in Ancient Greek Art."
Selected Publications
•"Gendering the Age Gap in Ancient Greek Art," in A. Cohen and J. B. Rutter, eds., Constructions of Childhood in the Ancient World (Hesperia Supplement, Princeton, 2007), 257-78.
•"Introduction: Childhood between Past and Present," in A. Cohen and J. B. Rutter, eds., Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Hesperia Supplement, Princeton, 2007), 1-22.
•"Mythic Landscape of Greece," in R. Woodard, ed., Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 305-30.
•"Landscape and Figure in Ancient Greek Art" (in Greek) in P. Doukellis, ed., The Greek Landscape (Athens: HESTIA Kollaros, 2005), 105-129.
• "Art, Myth, and Travel in the Hellenistic World," in Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece, ed. S. E. Alcock, J. Cherry, and J. Elsner (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 93-126.
• The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
• "Portrayals of Abduction in Greek Art: Rape or Metaphor?," in Sexuality in Ancient Art, ed. N. B. Kampen (with B. Bergmann, A. Cohen, et al.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 117-35.
• "Alexander and Achilles—Macedonians and 'Mycenaeans,'" in The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to E. T. Vermeule, ed. J. B. Carter and S. P. Morris (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1995), 483-505.
Forthcoming
•A. Cohen and S. E. Kangas, eds., Assyrian Reliefs at Dartmouth College: A Cultural Biography (Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art and University Press of New England, 2009)
•"Picturing Greek Families," in B. Rawson, ed., A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2010)
•"The Self as Other: Performing Humor in Ancient Greek Art," in A. Rosenthal, ed., No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity