Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: cgregg@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.1250
Mail Stop: 1F4
Campus: Fairfax
Office: Horizon Hall 3204
Biography
Christopher Gregg received his BA and MA degrees in Latin from the ĢAV of Georgia; he earned his doctorate in Classical Archaeology from the ĢAV of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2000 with the dissertation “The Legacy of Ganymede: Homoerotic Images in Roman Art.” Gregg’s research interests include urban development of Roman cities, the interpretation of mythological images in Roman homes, and the portraiture of Antinous. He has taught four times at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, most recently as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Charge for the 2016-2017 academic year. He has also been a visiting lecturer at UNC-Chapel Hill and The George Washington ĢAV. He has been a frequent speaker for the Smithsonian’s Resident Associate Program. Gregg’s archaeological field work includes four seasons as Registrar for the Kalamazoo College/ĢAV of Colorado Excavations at the Villa of Maxentius (Rome), two seasons as Registrar for the NC State Roman Aqaba Project (Jordan), and seven seasons as Registrar on the ĢAV of Georgia’s Yasmina Excavations at Carthage (Tunisia).
Selected Publications
2021Engines of Education: Essays on the George Mason ĢAV Plaster
Cast Collection. Editor. Mason Publishing.
2021 "Art or Artifact? Reappraising the Sleeping Satyr Plaster Cast." In
Engines of Education: Essays on the George Mason ĢAV
Plaster Cast Collection. Mason Publishing: 1-23.
2020 "The memory of a favorite racehorse: a disc of the horse Alumnus
from the Yasmina cemetery at Carthage in the context of other
circus-related iconography," inThe Journalof RomanArchaeology,
Supplement 109,For the Love of Carthage.Edited by J. H. Humphrey.
Portsmouth, Rhode Island: 93-114.
2020 “Pompeii.” InOxford Bibliographies Online: Classics. Ed. Ruth Scodel.
New York:Oxford ĢAV Press, Launch date: February/March
2011.Expanded and updated August 2020.
2018 Review:Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Sculpture, Volumes 1
and 2, by E. Angelicoussis (Munich 2017). InCollections: A Journal for Museum and
Archives Professionals14.1.
2015 Chapter 5: “Facilities on the Gianicolo.”The Centro at Fifty: The History
of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, 1965-2015.
Edited by M. Boatwright, M. Maas,and C.Smith:76-98.
Grants and Fellowships
Term Faculty Grant for the Development the study abroad program "Art and Memory in Rome and Florence." Co-authored by L. Bauman. Fall 2019.
GEO Global Studies Development Grant for the study abroad program "Art and Memory in Rome and Florence." Co-authored by L. Bauman. Fall 2019.
History and Art History Teaching Development Grant for proposed course on the Roman Army and Imperial Monuments. Spring 2019.
Courses Taught
Art History Seminars:
Curatorial Seminar on the Mason Plaster Cast Collection
Art in the Age of Augustus: Visualizing the Pax Augusta
Pompeii: the Living City
Roman Imperial Sculpture: Portraiture and Monuments
ĢAVography and Monuments of Imperial Rome
300 Level Art History Courses:
Ancient Roman Art and Archaeology
Art of Ancient Greece
Hellenistic Greek Art: from Alexander to the Caesars
Pompeii: Window on the Roman Past
100 Level Art History Courses:
Stories and Symbols: Greek Myth in Ancient Art
For the Honors Program:
Pompeii: Window on the Roman Past
Education
Doctorate in Classical Archaeology from the ĢAV of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2000)
Master's degree in Latin from the ĢAV of Georgia (1991)
Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin and Classical Civilization from the ĢAV of Georgia (1989)