Publications
My book
The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in Rome:
Collecting Art in the Ancient Mediterranean
is available from De Gruyter and Amazon!
Academic reviews of it include:
Review by Prudence Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Review by Lindsey Mazurek, College Art Association Reviews
Review by Michael Squire, Greece and Rome (Subject Reviews)
Many of the items below can be viewed in full or part on my Academia.edu page. The Exhibition Reviews are posted in full here.
You can download a list of my publications here in German or here in English.
You can download a list of my publications here in German or here in English.
Publications
"Falling between the Cracks: U.C. Berkeley's Plaster Cast Collection," in Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th-20th Centuries: Demolition, Defacement, Disposal in Europe and Beyond, ed. Annetta Alexandridis, Lorenz Winkler-Horacek, De Gruyter, Berlin — 2022
Review of Painting Antiquity: Ancient Egypt in the Art of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Poynter and Edwin Long by S. Moser and Beyond Egyptomania. Objects, Style and Agency, ed. M.J. Versluys, in Art History 44(5), https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8365.12606 — 2021
The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in Rome: Collecting Art in the Ancient Mediterranean, ICON series, De Gruyter, Berlin -- 2021
Review by Prudence Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Review by Lindsey Mazurek, College Art Association Reviews
Review by Michael Squire, Greece and Rome (Subject Reviews)
Review of Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution by M.E.J.J. van Aerde, in Sehepunkte 21(1), http://www.sehepunkte.de/2021/01/34220.html — 2021
Review of The Iseum Campense from the Roman Empire to the Modern Age. Temple - Monument - Lieu de Mémoire, ed. Miguel John Versluys, Kristine Bülow Clausen, G. Capriotti Vittozzi, in Journal of Roman Archaeology — 2020
“Roms ‘ägyptisierende’ Prunkgefäße: Kultus oder Luxus?,” in Antike Welt — 2019
Review of Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis. Agents, Images, and Practices. Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of Isis Studies (Erfurt, May 6–8, 2013 – Liège, September 23–24, 2013), ed. Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers, in ARYS, 385-396, https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/ARYS/article/view/5000/3550 — 2019
Catalog entries in Beyond the Nile. Egypt in the Classical World, ed. Sara E. Cole, Timothy Potts, Jeffrey Spier, 257, 261-2 — 2018
“Der Tod des Laokoon in Pompeji – der Mythos im Kontext des römischen Wohnens,” in Laokoon. Auf der Suche nach einem Meisterwerk, ed. Susanne Muth — 2017
Review of Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 1: From Antiquity to 1881 by Jason Thompson, in History of Humanities 2(1), www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/690582 — 2017
"Bodies of Meaning: Figural Repetition in Pompeian Painting," in Beyond Iconography: Materials, Methods and Meaning in Ancient Painting Studies, ed. Sarah Lepinski and Susanna McFadden, 149-66. Selected Papers in Ancient Art and Architecture 1. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America — 2015
Review of Peintures murales et stucs d'époque romaine: de la fouille au musée. Actes des 24e et 25e colloques de l'AFPMA, Narbonne, 12 et 13 novembre 2010, et Paris, 25 et 26 novembre 2011, ed. Julien Boislève, Alexandra Dardenay, and Florence Monier, in The Journal of Roman Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0075435815000039 — 2015
Review of exhibition, digital media, and catalog Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum (London, The British Museum), in Reviews in History no. 1479, http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1479 — 2013
Review of Divine Interiors: Mural Paintings in Greek and Roman Sanctuaries by Eric M. Moormann, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0075426913001080 — 2013
Coauthor of "Via Consolare Project – 2007-2011 Field Seasons in Insula VII 6," in The Journal of Fasti Online, http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2012-247.pdf — 2012
"History of the Collection" and "Hermes of Olympia," in Plaster Casts at Berkeley. Collections of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology & Department of Classics at UC Berkeley. An Exhibition of Rare Plaster Casts of Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture, ed. Stephen G. Miller — 2005
Translation
Permanent collection catalog Die Antikensammlung: Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Pergamonmuseum, ed. Martin Maischberger, Agnes Schwarzmaier, Andreas Scholl (380 pp.) — 2016
Web Essays and Outreach
Essay "Im Museum spielen? Wieso nicht?" Playing History, 16 May, https://playinghistory.de/2022/05/16/im-museum-spielen-wieso-nicht/ — 2022
Exhibition review, “Anna Dorothea Therbusch: A Woman Painting Against Eighteenth-century Odds,” Art Herstory, 11 January, https://artherstory.net/anna-dorothea-therbusch-a-woman-painting-against-18th-century-odds/ — 2022
Essay “Feminist*in sein in der Klassischen Archäologie in Deutschland: Was, Wie, Warum?,” FemArc, 5 July, https://www.femarc.de/blog/297-feminst-in-sein-in-der-klassischen-archaeologie3.html — 2021
Essay "Why 2021 will be momentous for social justice in museums" on MuseumNext, 26 January, https://www.museumnext.com/article/why-2021-will-be-momentous-for-social-justice-in-museums/ — 2021
Essay "More than Marble – Diversity in the Altes Museum," Museum and the City, 3 August, https://blog.smb.museum/more-than-marble-diversity-in-the-altes-museum/ — 2020
Essay "Displaying Processes of Knowledge: How Do Museum Exhibitions Know What They Know?" on Caitlin McQuade's Blog, 8 May, https://www.caitlinmcquade.com/post/how-do-exhibitions-know-what-they-know — 2020
Essays on exhibition design in self-authored blog "Ideas on Display," http://www.stephpearson.com/ideas-on-display-blog — 2014-20
Interview in the Berliner Zeitung, "Wissenschaft: Berliner Weltverbesserer," 30 May, https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wissen/berliner-weltverbesserer-sie-forscht-zum-austausch-zwischen-kulturen-im-mittelmeerraum-30537386 — 2018
Essay "Making Ancient Art Contemporary" on special exhibitions in Turin, London und Frankfurt, http://www.stephpearson.com/making-ancient-art-contemporary.html — 2018
Review of exhibition Cleopatra. Roma e l’incantesimo dell’Egitto, http://www.stephpearson.com/cleopatra.html — 2014
"Falling between the Cracks: U.C. Berkeley's Plaster Cast Collection," in Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th-20th Centuries: Demolition, Defacement, Disposal in Europe and Beyond, ed. Annetta Alexandridis, Lorenz Winkler-Horacek, De Gruyter, Berlin — 2022
Review of Painting Antiquity: Ancient Egypt in the Art of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Poynter and Edwin Long by S. Moser and Beyond Egyptomania. Objects, Style and Agency, ed. M.J. Versluys, in Art History 44(5), https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8365.12606 — 2021
The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in Rome: Collecting Art in the Ancient Mediterranean, ICON series, De Gruyter, Berlin -- 2021
Review by Prudence Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Review by Lindsey Mazurek, College Art Association Reviews
Review by Michael Squire, Greece and Rome (Subject Reviews)
Review of Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution by M.E.J.J. van Aerde, in Sehepunkte 21(1), http://www.sehepunkte.de/2021/01/34220.html — 2021
Review of The Iseum Campense from the Roman Empire to the Modern Age. Temple - Monument - Lieu de Mémoire, ed. Miguel John Versluys, Kristine Bülow Clausen, G. Capriotti Vittozzi, in Journal of Roman Archaeology — 2020
“Roms ‘ägyptisierende’ Prunkgefäße: Kultus oder Luxus?,” in Antike Welt — 2019
Review of Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis. Agents, Images, and Practices. Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of Isis Studies (Erfurt, May 6–8, 2013 – Liège, September 23–24, 2013), ed. Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers, in ARYS, 385-396, https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/ARYS/article/view/5000/3550 — 2019
Catalog entries in Beyond the Nile. Egypt in the Classical World, ed. Sara E. Cole, Timothy Potts, Jeffrey Spier, 257, 261-2 — 2018
“Der Tod des Laokoon in Pompeji – der Mythos im Kontext des römischen Wohnens,” in Laokoon. Auf der Suche nach einem Meisterwerk, ed. Susanne Muth — 2017
Review of Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 1: From Antiquity to 1881 by Jason Thompson, in History of Humanities 2(1), www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/690582 — 2017
"Bodies of Meaning: Figural Repetition in Pompeian Painting," in Beyond Iconography: Materials, Methods and Meaning in Ancient Painting Studies, ed. Sarah Lepinski and Susanna McFadden, 149-66. Selected Papers in Ancient Art and Architecture 1. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America — 2015
Review of Peintures murales et stucs d'époque romaine: de la fouille au musée. Actes des 24e et 25e colloques de l'AFPMA, Narbonne, 12 et 13 novembre 2010, et Paris, 25 et 26 novembre 2011, ed. Julien Boislève, Alexandra Dardenay, and Florence Monier, in The Journal of Roman Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0075435815000039 — 2015
Review of exhibition, digital media, and catalog Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum (London, The British Museum), in Reviews in History no. 1479, http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1479 — 2013
Review of Divine Interiors: Mural Paintings in Greek and Roman Sanctuaries by Eric M. Moormann, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0075426913001080 — 2013
Coauthor of "Via Consolare Project – 2007-2011 Field Seasons in Insula VII 6," in The Journal of Fasti Online, http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2012-247.pdf — 2012
"History of the Collection" and "Hermes of Olympia," in Plaster Casts at Berkeley. Collections of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology & Department of Classics at UC Berkeley. An Exhibition of Rare Plaster Casts of Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture, ed. Stephen G. Miller — 2005
Translation
Permanent collection catalog Die Antikensammlung: Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Pergamonmuseum, ed. Martin Maischberger, Agnes Schwarzmaier, Andreas Scholl (380 pp.) — 2016
Web Essays and Outreach
Essay "Im Museum spielen? Wieso nicht?" Playing History, 16 May, https://playinghistory.de/2022/05/16/im-museum-spielen-wieso-nicht/ — 2022
Exhibition review, “Anna Dorothea Therbusch: A Woman Painting Against Eighteenth-century Odds,” Art Herstory, 11 January, https://artherstory.net/anna-dorothea-therbusch-a-woman-painting-against-18th-century-odds/ — 2022
Essay “Feminist*in sein in der Klassischen Archäologie in Deutschland: Was, Wie, Warum?,” FemArc, 5 July, https://www.femarc.de/blog/297-feminst-in-sein-in-der-klassischen-archaeologie3.html — 2021
Essay "Why 2021 will be momentous for social justice in museums" on MuseumNext, 26 January, https://www.museumnext.com/article/why-2021-will-be-momentous-for-social-justice-in-museums/ — 2021
Essay "More than Marble – Diversity in the Altes Museum," Museum and the City, 3 August, https://blog.smb.museum/more-than-marble-diversity-in-the-altes-museum/ — 2020
Essay "Displaying Processes of Knowledge: How Do Museum Exhibitions Know What They Know?" on Caitlin McQuade's Blog, 8 May, https://www.caitlinmcquade.com/post/how-do-exhibitions-know-what-they-know — 2020
Essays on exhibition design in self-authored blog "Ideas on Display," http://www.stephpearson.com/ideas-on-display-blog — 2014-20
Interview in the Berliner Zeitung, "Wissenschaft: Berliner Weltverbesserer," 30 May, https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wissen/berliner-weltverbesserer-sie-forscht-zum-austausch-zwischen-kulturen-im-mittelmeerraum-30537386 — 2018
Essay "Making Ancient Art Contemporary" on special exhibitions in Turin, London und Frankfurt, http://www.stephpearson.com/making-ancient-art-contemporary.html — 2018
Review of exhibition Cleopatra. Roma e l’incantesimo dell’Egitto, http://www.stephpearson.com/cleopatra.html — 2014