Ada Cohen is an American art historian. She serves as Professor of Art History and Israel Evans Professor in Oratory and Belles Lettres at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

. Her work focuses on

ancient Greek art Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation. The rate of stylistic d ...

, particularly imagery of

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...

. From 1990-1991, she was a member of the

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Society of Fellows The Society of Fellows is a group of scholars selected at the beginnings of their careers by Harvard University for their potential to advance academic wisdom, upon whom are bestowed distinctive opportunities to foster their individual and intell ...

in the Humanities.

Works

* ''The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat'' (

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, 1997) * ed. ''Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy'' with J. B. Rutter ( American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007) * ''Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and Their Cultural Traditions'' (Cambridge University Press, 2010) * ed. ''Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography'' with S. E. Kangas (

University Press of New England The University Press of New England (UPNE), located in Lebanon, New Hampshire and founded in 1970, was a university press consortium including Brandeis University, Dartmouth College (its host member), Tufts University, the University of New Hampsh ...

, 2010) * ''Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace: Looking at Austen Henry Layard's Reconstruction'' with Steven Kangas (University Press of New England and

Hood Museum of Art The Hood Museum of Art is owned and operated by Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. The first reference to the development of an art collection at Dartmouth dates to 1772, making the collection among the o ...

, 2017)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Adad Living people American art historians Dartmouth College faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Brandeis University alumni Harvard University alumni American women art historians