Natalie Kampen
Barbara Novak '50 Professor of Art History and Professor of Women's Studies
Art History
E-mail: nbk6@columbia.edu
Phone number: 1-212-854-6747
Room number: 201A Barnard
Natalie Boymel Kampen holds degrees in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University. Honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Commission, and she has held the Sacher Fellowship at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, and at the Center for the Humanities at Cornell University. Her undergraduate teaching includes courses at every level of Women’s Studies and the history of Roman art. Graduate teaching for the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia focuses in Roman art and architecture. Her publications since the early 1970s have engaged issues of gender, sexuality, and social status in Roman art. Author of Image and Status: Roman Working Women in Ostia (Berlin,1981) and articles, most recently in Women’s Studies Quarterly (2005) and the Art Bulletin (2003), she has also edited Sexuality in Ancient Art (1996) and contributed to Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, with Sarah Pomeroy, Elaine Fantham, Helene Foley and Alan Shapiro (1994). With Rebecca Molholt and Elizabeth Marlowe, she curated and wrote the catalog for What is a Man? Masculinity in Late Antique Art, a loan exhibition at Reed College, Portland, OR., 2002. She is completing a book on family in Roman art and continues her research on art produced for the Roman army in Britain. Her current service to the profession includes the advisory board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the editorial board of the American Journal of Archaeology.