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Education
Rachel Meredith Kousser earned her B.A at Yale, double majoring in Classics and Art History in May of 1994. During her undergraduate years, she received the Summa cum laude Lati Language Price (1991), the Greek Language Prize (1992), and the Mark Deitz Memorial Prize for original research by an undergraduate in the History of Art. Her senior essay was entitled "Death, Art, and Daily Life: An Essay in the Interpretation of Classical Athenian White-ground Lekythoi" J. J. Pollitt advised it.

She completed her Ph.D. in Art History at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. Her May 2001 Dissertation is entitled "Sensual Power: A Warrior Aphrodite in Greek and Roman Sculpture" completed under the advisory of Evelyn Harrison, Katherine Welch.

Current Positions
Currently, Rachel is a professor and Executive Officer in the Art History Department (2015-Present). She has been a member of the Art History Doctoral Faculty since 2007 and the Classics Doctoral Faculty since 2011.

Past Positions
THE GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK, NY Professor and Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Art History, June 2015-present Member of the Doctoral Faculty, 2007-present (Art History), 2011-present (Classics)

BROOKLYN COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK, NY Professor, Art Department, 2014-presentAssociate Professor with Tenure, Art Department, 2009-2014 Assistant Professor, Art Department, 2004-2009

FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE, LANCASTER, PAVisiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, 2003-2004

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, NY Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archaeology, 2001-2003

Books
The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture: Interaction, Transformation, and Destruction. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2017. Winner: Archaeological Institute of America Publication SubventionAward, 2015; Shortlisted: Runciman Book Award for a work on Greek history or culture, Anglo-Hellenic League.

Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure of the Classical. Cambridge University Press,2008 (hardback), 2014 (paperback).

Experience
Academic Review Committee Member. CUNY Graduate Center (2016-present).

Executive, Admissions, and Fellowships Committee Member. Ph.D. Program in Art History,CUNY Graduate Center (2015-present).

Executive Committee Member. Ph.D. Program in Classics, CUNY Graduate Center (2013-2015).

Co-Leader. Columbia University Center for the Ancient Mediterranean tour of southern Greece,2015; tour of western Turkey, 2008.

Appointments Committee Member. Art department, Brooklyn College (2014-2015).

Co-Organizer.“The Afterlives of Monuments. Re-use and Transformation in the AncientWorld.” Archaeological Institute of America Colloquium Session, 2013. Board Member, Program Co-chair, Nominations Chair. ArchaeologicalInstitute of America, New York Society. (2007-2010)

Co-Organizer "The Ancient Art of Empire: New Approaches to Classical Culture."College Art Association Session, 2003.

Co-Organizer. "Visual Vocabularies in the Ancient Mediterranean."Columbia University, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, 2002.

Participant. American Numismatic Society Graduate Seminar (1998)Participated in summer seminar on numismatic methodology and scholarship.

Participant. American Academy of Rome Classical Summer School (1997)Participated in intensive six-week course in Roman monuments and topography.

Research Assistant. Archive, Samothrace excavations (1996-1998)Edited sixth edition of guide to Samothrace, compiled bibliography for guide, assisted in archival work.

Excavation Team Member. Samothrace excavations (1995, 1996)Supervised excavations, recorded and analyzed field data, examined and compiled written reports on sculptural and architectural material from Samothrace excavations.

Museum Intern. Yale University Art Gallery (1992-1994)Catalogued Yale's collection of Roman glass from Dura-Europos. Verified measurements and descriptions, researched parallel artworks, wrote new labels for glass on display.

Awards & Honors

 * National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2011-12)
 * Getty Research Institute Senior Fellowship (2011)
 * Center for Hellenic Studies Non-Residential Fellowship (2010-11)
 * Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship (2010)
 * Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities (2007-08)
 * Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin (2006)
 * PSC-CUNY Research Award, CUNY Research Foundation (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013,2014)
 * Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Fellowship, Mainz (2002, 2003)

Selected publications
“The Mutilation of the Herms: Violence toward Sculptures in the Late Fifth Century B.C.” In Margaret M. Miles, ed., Autopsy in Athens: Recent Archaeological Research on Athens and Attica,Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015, 76-84.

“A Sacred Landscape: The Creation, Maintenance, and Destruction of Religious Space in Roman Germany.” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 27/28 (2010): 120-139.

“Destruction and Memory on the Athenian Acropolis.” The Art Bulletin XCI.3 (2009): 263-282.

“Mythological Group Portraits in Antonine Rome: The Performance of Myth.” American Journal Of Archaeology111.4 (2007): 673-691. “Creating the past: The Vénus de Milo and the Hellenistic Reception ofClassical Greece.” American Journal of Archaeology 109.2 (2005): 227-50.

References/External Links
http://gc-cuny.academia.edu/RachelKousser/CurriculumVitae https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Art-History/Faculty-Bios/Rachel-Kousser https://www.proquest.com/ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AKousser%2C+Rachel.&qt=hot_author