Rachel Meredith Kousser
Rachel Meredith Kousser is professor of art history at the City University of New York. Education. Kousser earned her B.A at Yale, double majoring in Classics and Art History in May 1994. During her undergraduate years, she received the Summa cum laude Lati Language Price (1991), the Greek Language Prize (1992), and the Mark Deitz Memorial Prize for original research by an undergraduate in the History of Art. Her senior essay was entitled "Death, Art, and Daily Life: An Essay in the Interpretation of Classical Athenian White-ground Lekythoi" J. J. Pollitt advised it. She completed her  Ph.D. in Art History at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Her May 2001 Dissertation is entitled "Sensual Power: A Warrior Aphrodite in Greek and Roman Sculpture" completed under the advisory of Evelyn Harrison, Katherine Welch. Career. Kousser is a professor and Executive Officer in the Art History Department (2015-Present). She has been a member of the Art History Doctoral Faculty since 2007 and the Classics Doctoral Faculty since 2011. She was previously a professor in the art department of Brooklyn College, a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Classics at Franklin & Marshall College and a  postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Department of Art History and Archaeology of Columbia University. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2017. Winner: Archaeological Institute of America Publication SubventionAward, 2015; Shortlisted: Runciman Book Award for a work on Greek history or culture, Anglo-Hellenic League. Margaret M. Miles, ed., "Autopsy in Athens: Recent Archaeological Research on Athens and Attica",Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015, 76-84.