About

HALLIE G. MEREDITH, D.PHIL.

D.Phil., Lincoln College, University of Oxford, England in Classical Archaeology

M.A., University of Durham, England in Roman Archaeology specializing in Roman glass

B.A., University of Chicago, IL, USA in the History of Art

As a former studio artist concentrating in hot glass, one of my principal research interests is the history of making. My work encompasses a variety of geographical areas including Europe, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Sasanian Persia and the so-called Silk Road. My most recent monograph highlights the work of late Roman artists as a means of recognizing their artistic processes. The focus of this research is the 3^rd-7^th centuries AD, a period that not only represents a zenith in late Roman carving but for which there are also a wealth of excavated production sites. This original project will blend perspectives from archaeology, art history, economic history and contemporary studio practices to add a creative dimension – that of maker – to academic discourse on visual culture that has not been fully explored. Moreover, this research is part of a burgeoning interest among social scientists, educators, cognitive and neuroscientists in embodied ways of learning and knowing. My archaeological and art historical approach endeavours to move the study of human knowledge well beyond what people say to include what they actually do, in practice.

I have received awards and fellowships from the Archaeological Institute of America, Bard Graduate Center, NY, NY, British School at Rome, Center for Arts and Humanities and Community Engaged Scholars Program at Washington State University, Clark Art Institute, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Corning Museum of Glass, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., European International Year of Glass, National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Oxford’s Institute of Archaeology, Yale University, and SECAC’s prestigious William R. Levin Award for Research in the History of Art before 1750 for work on unfinished production processes in late Roman art and culture.

I have taught courses on viewing and the ancient world in the UK and US, at Washington State University; the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; the University of Colorado at Boulder; the University of Oxford; the University of Warwick; and the University of Pennsylvania.

My research interests include: Roman Work, Craft Production, and Trade; Material Culture Studies; Eurasian Exchange and the so-called Silk Road; Ancient Technology; the Written Word on Functional Objects; and Social Theory. I am fascinated by the cultural choices inherent in the production of an object as a way of identifying and focusing on period-specific concerns and meaning, how inscriptions, and texts more broadly, inform ancient visual art, and how inscribed visual culture was viewed and interpreted.