Ada Cohen
Professor
Department of Art History
Dartmouth College
United States of America
Biography
Ada's research has focused on the era of Alexander the Great and the impact of Alexander's imagery. 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 current book project is titled, He pais kalé :Beauty, Ugliness, and the Ancient Greek Woman. In addition to her lecture courses, Ada Cohen teaches First-Year and advanced seminars and regularly teaches the Senior Culminating Seminar on theory and method in Art History. Periodically she directs the Art History Department's Foreign Study Program in Rome.
Research Interest
Ancient Greek art and culture, Alexander the Great and Hellenistic art, Near Eastern art, sexuality and gender in the visual arts, theoretical approaches to the study of art.
Publications
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Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace: Looking at Austen Henry Layards Reconstruction (University Press of New England and Hood Museum of Art, 2017) with Steven Kangas
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Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and Their Cultural Traditions (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010; Paperback 2014)
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What Is Art History? in Daniel Rockmore, ed., What Are the Arts and Sciences? [A Guide for the Curious] (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2017), 27-45
