Matthew
Canepa
Assistant Professor, Ancient Iran
and the Mediterranean World
Contributing
Faculty Member, Interdisciplinary Programs in Archaeology
and Asian
Studies
Office tel. 843-953-2294
Fax: 843-953-8212
Office: Room 302B, Albert Simons Center
for the Arts
Email: canepam@cofc.edu
Education:
BA, Art History and Psychology, University
of Colorado, Boulder
MA, Humanities, University of Chicago
MA, Art History, University of Chicago
PhD, Art History, University of Chicago
About Professor Canepa:
A specialist in the art and cultures of the late Roman
Empire and Pre-Islamic Iran, Prof. Canepa’s research
focuses on cross-cultural interaction in the ancient
world. His forthcoming book entitled The Two Eyes of
the Earth (University of California Press) will be the
first to analyze the artistic, ritual and ideological
interactions between the Roman and Sasanian empires
in a comprehensive and theoretically rigorous manner.
His current projects include an exploration of Middle
Iranian art and the global idea of Iranian Kingship
and the publication of C of C’s Joel Handshu collection
of Classical and Near Eastern coins. Prof. Canepa has
been the recipient of numerous research grants including
fellowships from the Council of American Overseas Research
Centers (2002-2003), the Deutsches Archäologisches
Institut (2007) and the Archaeological Institute of
America (2008).
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
The Two Eyes of the Earth: Competition and Exchange
in the Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian
Iran Transformation of the Classical Heritage.
University of California Press.
Review of J. Wiesehöfer and P. Huyse, Eran ud Aneran:
Studien zu den
Beziehungen zwischen dem Sasanidenreich und der Mittelmeerwelt
in The Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.01.35.
Review of La dinastia degli Orontidi nella Commagene
ellenistico-romana, by Margherita Facella in The Bryn
Mawr Classical Review 2007.01.21.
“The Problem of Indo-Scythian Art and Kingship:
Evolving Images of Power and Royal Identity between
the Iranian, Hellenistic and South Asian Worlds, ”
in Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, Supplement to Faventia:
Revista de filologia clàssica (forthcoming).
"The Creation and Destruction of the Past in Sasanian
Iran: Changing the Past through the Built, Visual and
Ritual Environments." (under review)
Works in Progress:
Between Alexander and Islam: Art of the Middle Iranian
Near East and Central Asia.
An examination of Middle Iranian Art and the global
idea of Iranian Kingship (Parthian, Sasanian, Sogdian,
and Kushan Art).
From Bactria to the Mediterranean: The Joel Handshu
Collection of Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Near Eastern
Coins.
In association with the College of Charleston Library
Office of Special Collections. Planned catalogue of
over 170 ancient
coins with thematic essays.
Recent and Forthcoming Conference Contributions:
2008
Theorizing Cross-Cultural Interaction between the Ancient
and Early Medieval Mediterranean, Near East and Asia.
Panel Chair, College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference,
Feb. 20-23, 2008.
Scholarship on many of the cultures within this broadly
defined sphere has recently benefited from a shift to
questions that transcend traditional art historical
boundaries. As a result, scholars who study the visual
cultures of these regions have found themselves drawn
closer together, but without a common vocabulary with
which to communicate. The goal of this panel is to bring
these theoretical considerations to the fore and provide
a platform to explore these problems with greater rigor.
http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/sessions/view/338
"The Art of Manichaean Ritual: texts, images and
objects of ritual power and their transformation across
the late antique Mediterranean, Near East, and Central
Asia." Invited speaker, Objects in Motion: the
Intersection of Religion and Sacred Objects in the Late
Antique and Early Medieval World. One day colloquium
at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative
Arts, Design and Cultures. May 2, 2008. http://www.bgc.bard.edu/
“Sculpting and Enacting a Topography of Power:
The Ritual, Social, and Environmental Contexts of Sasanian
Rock Reliefs.” Invited speaker, Drawing on Rocks,
Gathering by the Water: Archaeological Fieldwork at
Rock Reliefs, Sacred Springs and other Places. Conference
organized by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology
and the Ancient World, Brown University. March 1, 2008.
http://proteus.brown.edu/drawingonrocks/Home
2007
“’King of Kings of Iran and Non-Iran’:
The Monumental Rock Relief in Sasanian Iran between
Rome and South Asia.” College Art Association
Annual Conference, Feb. 14-17, 2007.
“Captive and Competitive Royal Images: the Sasanian
in Roman Art.” 108th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological
Institute of America (AIA), January 4-7, 2007
“The Problem of Indo-Scythian Art and Kingship,”
Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans: Iranian-Speaking Nomads
of the Eurasian Steppes, international conference held
at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, May 6-11,
2007.
2006
“Ritual and Visual Technologies of Memory in the
Early Sasanian Empire.” Accepted for presentation
at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual
Meeting, Nov. 15-18, 2006.
“The Late Antique Kosmos of Power: International
Ornament and Royal Identity in the Sixth and Seventh
Centuries.” 21st Annual Congress of Byzantine
Studies, London, 21-26 August 2006
“The Diadem, Nimbus and Red Footwear in Rome and
Iran” 6th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference,
London, 2-6 August 2006. |
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