Nayla Kabazi Muntasser  

EDUCATION

University of Texas, 2003: Ph.D. Dissertation: “The Late Antique Domus in Ostia: Patterns of Diversity and Transformation.”

Rice University, Houston, 1985, M.A. Thesis: “ J.A.D. Ingres’ Jupiter and Thetis. ”

University of London, 1967, B.A. Philosophy and Economics, Joint Honours.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 2004-Spring 2005: Visiting Professor, Emory University, Atlanta. Greek and Roman Art and Architecture.

Fall 2003-Spring 2004: Adjunct Faculty, Trinity University, San Antonio. American Art, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

Spring 2000, Spring and Fall 2002: Assistant Instructor, University of Texas.

Spring 1998-Spring 1999: Teaching Assistant, University of Texas.

Fall 1995: Lecturer, Interior Design Institute, University of Houston. History of Domestic Architecture.

Spring 1990-Spring 1997: Lecturer, Interior Design Institute, University of Houston. Art History Survey.

Spring 1992- Spring 1996: Lecturer, Continuing Education Department, Rice University. Courses for the community on Leonardo da Vinci, Ancient Rome, Renaissance and Baroque Rome, Sixteenth-Century Italian Masters.

January 1989- May 1997: Part-time faculty member; Art and Art History Department, Rice University.

Fall 1986-Spring 1990: Lecturer, Art History Department, University of Houston. Neoclassical Art, Greek and Roman Art, Greek Art, Greek Art.

SYMPOSIA

• Forthcoming: CAA 93 rd Annual Conference, Atlanta. February 2005. Co-chair of session, New Approaches to the Study of Domestic Architecture in the Ancient Mediterranean.
• Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Franc isco. November 17-20, 2001. Co-author of paper: “Parallels and Differences between the Colonial Building Program and the Colonial Excavation Program in Libya.”
• Columbia University, House and Home in Greco-Roman World, Graduate Student Conference, February 10 th, 2001. Paper presentation: “Patterns of Differentiation and Privilege in the domus of Late Antiquity: The House of the Nymphaeum and the House of Cupid and Psyche in Ostia.”
• AIA Annual Meeting, San Diego, Jan.3-6, 2001. Paper presentation: “Siting and Civic Identity: the Urban Context of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Leptis Magna.”
• Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Eleanor Greenhill Graduate Art History Symposium, April 10, 1999. Paper presentation: “First Family of Rome: The Severan Arch of Leptis Magna.”

• Graduate Student Conference at the University of Texas, Austin. Do ut des: Ritual and Economy n the Ancient World, February 26-27, 1999. Respondent.

MUSEUM EXPERIENCE

Lyndon B. Johnson Library, June-December 2003: “Light in the Age of Augustine” Exhibit. Assistant to guest curator.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1984.: member of research team for the catalogue, The Collection of John A. and Audrey Jones Beck published by the MFA in 1986.

ARCHAEOLOGY

Team leader for Ostia Synagogue-area Masonry Analysis Project (OSMAP), University of Texas Department of Classics archaeological project, June 16-July 20 th, 2002.

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS

Dissertation nominated for ‘ Outstanding Dissertation,’ 2003.

University of Texas Scholarship (OSMAP), June, 2002.

University of Texas, M. K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts, 2001-2002.

University of Texas, College of Fine Arts Deans Travel Grant, March 2001.

University of Texas, M. K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts, 2000-2001.

University of Texas Howard Professorship Research Assistantship, Fall, 1999.

Rice University Travel Research Grant, January, 1985.

Rice University Full Tuition Grant, 1982-1985.