Irene J. Winter

American art historian (born 1940)

Irene J. Winter
Born	1940 (age 83–84) New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American

Academic background
Alma mater	Barnard College Columbia University
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Art
Institutions	Harvard University

Irene J. Winter (born 1940 in New York City^[1]) is an American art historian who is an influential and pioneering scholar of ancient Near Eastern art.^[2]

Life

BA Barnard College, Anthropology, 1960; MA University of Chicago, Near Eastern Studies, 1967; PhD Columbia University, Art History and Archaeology. She has taught at Queens College, CUNY, 1971-1976, The University of Pennsylvania, 1976-1988, and Harvard University since 1988, chairing the department of Fine Arts from 1993-1996, and served on the Faculty Council, 2006-2009; retired June 2009. Slade Professor, University of Cambridge, 1997.^[3] She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and the American Philosophical Society in 2016.^[4]^[5]

Awards

2009 The Barnard College Medal of Distinction
2005 A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
2003-2004 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellows^[6]
1983 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

On Art in the Ancient Near East, 2 Vols. Brill Academic Publishers, 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-17500-6

References

^ "2017 Plenary Address".
^ Cheng, Jack (2007). Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter by Her Students. Leiden: Brill. p. 3. ISBN 9789004157026.
^ TheCrimson.com
^ "Newly Elected - April 2016 | American Philosophical Society". amphilsoc.org. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ "Irene J. Winter". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
^ HarvardMagazine.com