Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities; Professor, Department of Art History; Professor, Department of Classics
Ann C. Gunter is a specialist in the visual and material culture of the pre-Islamic Middle East and its Eastern Mediterranean neighbors. She is a member of the editorial board of the series Classica et Orientalia (Harrassowitz Verlag) and the journal State Archives of Assyria Bulletin. She is also a board member of the Melammu Project: The Heritage of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East, an international research network sponsoring workshops and symposia and their resulting publications.
Research Interests
Gunter's primary research interests include artistic and cultural interaction between the Mediterranean and the Near East; the relationship between material culture and social and cultural identity; and the modern reception of ancient Greek and Near Eastern art.
Featured Work
Gunter's books include A Collector’s Journey: Charles Lang Freer and Egypt (Freer Gallery of Art, 2002) and Greek Art and the Orient (Cambridge, 2009). She has also edited several volumes, among them Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1990); Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900-1950, with Stefan R. Hauser (Brill, 2005); and A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019). Her recent contributions to conference volumes include Das Weltreich der Perser: Rezeption, Aneignung, Verargumentierung (Harassowitz, 2019); Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Style, and Agency (DeGruyter, 2020); and The Connected Iron Age: Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE (University of Chicago, 2022). Her graduate training included archaeological fieldwork in Turkey, and she has also published excavated material from several sites, including Gordion/Yassıhöyük and Labraunda.
