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Cynthia Colburn Faculty Profile

Cynthia Colburn

Professor of Art History
Fine Arts Division, Seaver College
CAC 212

Education

  • PhD in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
  • MA in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
  • BA in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993

 

  • Colburn, Cynthia S. "A Proposal for Interpreting the Role of Colour Symbolism in Prepalatial Cretan Body Adornment." In Fashioned Selves, edited by Megan Cifarelli. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2019.
  • Colburn, Cynthia and Ella Gonzalez (student). "How to teach Ancient Art in the Age of #MeToo." Hyperallergic. September 5, 2018.
  • Cynthia S. Colburn. "Whose Global Art (History)? Ancient Art as Global Art." Journal of Art Historiography 15 (December 2016).

  • Chiem, Kristen and Cynthia S. Colburn. "Global Foundations for a World Art History." Journal of Visual Resources, 2015.
  • Colburn, Cynthia. "Bodily Adornment in the Early Bronze Age Aegean and Near East." In Kosmos: Jewelry, Adornment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age, edited by Marie Louise-Nosch and Robert Laffineur, Liège: Université de Liège, 2012.
  • Colburn, Cynthia S. "Egyptian Gold in Prepalatial Crete? A Consideration of the Evidence," Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 3:3 (2011).
  • Colburn, Cynthia S. "Exotica and the Early Minoan Elite: Eastern Imports in Prepalatial Crete." American Journal of Archaeology 112.2 (April 2008).
  • Colburn, Cynthia S., and Maura K. Heyn, eds. Reading a Dynamic Canvas: Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
  • Colburn, Cynthia S., and Maura K. Heyn. "Introduction: Bodily Adornment and Identity." In Reading a Dynamic Canvas: Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
  • Colburn, Cynthia S. "Exotica and the Body in the Minoan and Mycenaean Worlds." In Readying a Dynamic Canvas: Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean World, edited by Cynthia Colburn and Maura Heyn, 13-48. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
  • Colburn, Cynthia. "The Symbolic Significance of Distance in the Homeric Epics and the Bronze Age Aegean." In Epos: Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology, edited by Sarah P. Morris and Robert Laffineur, 203-211 and Plates LIII, LIV, and LV. Liege: Universite de Liege, 2007.
  • Seaver Research Council Grant, Pepperdine University, Fall 2020

     

  • Academic Year Undergraduate Research Initiative Grant, Spring 2018

     

  • Academic Year Undergraduate Research Initiative Grant, Fall 2017

     

  • Waves of Innovation Grant, Pepperdine University, for "PSA I: Thinking Outside the White Cube," 2017

     

  • Academic Year Undergraduate Research Initiative Grant, Pepperdine University, Spring 2017

     

  • Dean's Research Grant, Pepperdine University, Summer 2016

     

  • Academic Year Undergraduate Research Initiative Grant, Pepperdine University, Fall 2016

     

  • Visiting Scholar, Getty Research Institute, Summer 2016

     

  • Glazer Institute Grant for Jewish Studies, 2015

  • Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence, Pepperdine University, 2014
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2011
  • Visiting Scholar, Getty Research Institute, Fall 2011
  • Seaver Research Council Grant, Pepperdine University, 2011-2012
  • Seaver Fellow in Fine Arts, Pepperdine University, 2011-2012
  • Dean's Research Grant, Pepperdine University, 2011-2012
  • Archaeological Institute of America Society Outreach Grant, 2010
  • Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence, Pepperdine University, 2008
  • Seaver Research Council Grant, Pepperdine University, 2007 to 2008
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Program Grant, Pepperdine University, 2007
  • Seaver Research Council Grant, Pepperdine University, 2006 to 2007
  • Seaver Fellow in Fine Arts, Pepperdine University, 2006 to 2007
  • Dean's Research Grant, Pepperdine University, 2006
  • Dean's Research Grant, Pepperdine University, 2005
  • Harriet and Leon Pomerance Fellowship, Archaelogical Institute of America, 2002 to 2003
  • Harriet and Leon Pomerance Fellowship, Archaeological Institute of America, 2002 and 2003
  • Patricia McCarron McGinn Memorial Award, 2001 to 2002
  • History of Art Fellowship, Edward A. Dickson, September 2001 to June 2002
  • History of Art Fellowship, Edward A. Dickson, 1999 to 2000
  • Packard Humanities Institute Fellowship, American Academy of Rome, June 1998 to August 1998
  • Title VI, National Resource Fellowship, 1998-1999
  • Chuck Cuenod Memorial Fellowship in Classical Archaeology, June 1998 to August 1998
  • Graduate Curatorial Intern, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 1996 to August 1996

Topics

  • Art and archaeology of the Mediterranean World
  • Bodily Adornment
  • Cultural interaction
  • Identity

Courses

  • ARTH 200: World Art I
  • ARTH 251: Art in the City
  • ARTH 390: Methodological Approaches to Art History
  • ARTH 422: Near Eastern Art and Archaeology
  • ARTH 424: Greek Art and Archaeology
  • ARTH 425: Roman Art and Archaeology
  • ARTH 426: Early Christian and Medieval Art
  • ARTH 428: Renaissance Art
  • ARTH 490: Senior Thesis in Art History
  • ARTH 492: Selected Topics in Art History