Jacob Wisse
Associate Professor
Department of Arts
Yeshiva University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Jacob Wisse has been appointed director of the Yeshiva University Museum, as announced by Yeshiva University Provost Morton Lowengrub, PhD. Dr. Wisse, a tenured Associate Professor, has been head of the art history program at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University since 2005. His appointment follows the retirement of Sylvia A. Herskowitz, who served as director for 33 years.
Research Interest
Research Interests: Art History,Fine Arts and Music.
Publications
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Wisse J. (2017) Philosophers and Gentlemen: The Orator Crassus’s Quaestorship, Philosophers’ Deaths, and Historical Realities in Cicero’s De oratore. In: Anne H. Groton, ed. Ab omni parte beatus: Classical Essays in Honor of James M. May. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers 121-159.
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"Wisse J.(2014) A Popular Consul’s Claptrap and the Sequence of Tenses: The text and Rhetorical Significance of Cicero, De lege agraria 2.7. Mnemosyne 67: 911-929. "
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Wisse J. (2013) Remembering Cremutius Cordus: Tacitus on History, Tyranny and Memory. Histos 7: 299-361.
