Projects

  • Ancient Monuments and Fascist Italy: Reception, Appropriation, and Innovation

    Ancient Monuments and Fascist Italy: Reception, Appropriation, and Innovation

    Panel Organized for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America Kimberly Cassibry (Wellesley College) and Elizabeth R. Macaulay (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Ancient cities were filled with arches, columns, and other memorials that celebrated specific events and constructed rhetorical narratives around myth and history. These large-scale monuments have weathered the vicissitudes of…

  • Ancient Fantasies and Modern Utopias: Neo-Antique Architecture at the U.S. World’s Fairs,1893–1915

    Ancient Fantasies and Modern Utopias: Neo-Antique Architecture at the U.S. World’s Fairs,1893–1915

    World’s Fairs are probably the most important modern phenomenon that you’ve never heard about. World’s Fairs were the way people learned about new ideas and products, before there was an internet. The Eiffel Tower made its debut at the Paris Exposition of 1889. The Ferris Wheel appeared at Chicago in 1893. President William McKinley was…

  • Archaeological Ambassadors: A History of Archaeological Gifts to New York City

    Archaeological Ambassadors: A History of Archaeological Gifts to New York City

    What do an obelisk, a column, a grave marker, and a temple all have in common? They are all archaeological ambassadors. Other nations presented these four extraordinary archaeological monuments and objects to New York as gifts over the last 145 years. Egypt gave Cleopatra’s Needle (now in Central Park) and the Temple of Dendur (now…