Christopher A. Gregg

Gregg’s research interests include urban development of Roman cities, the interpretation of mythological images in Roman homes, and the portraiture of Antinous. He has taught five times at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, most recently as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Charge for the 2016-2017 academic year and returned to the ICCS-Rome in 2022-2023 for another turn as PiC. He has also been a visiting lecturer at UNC-Chapel Hill and The George Washington University. He has been a frequent speaker for the Smithsonian’s Resident Associate Program. Gregg’s archaeological field work includes four seasons as Registrar for the Kalamazoo College/University of Colorado Excavations at the Villa of Maxentius (Rome), two seasons as Registrar for the NC State Roman Aqaba Project (Jordan), and seven seasons as Registrar on the University of Georgia’s Yasmina Excavations at Carthage (Tunisia). Gregg has an article in Archaeological News, “Roman Politics and Celtic Tradition: the Imperial Cult Site at Lugdunum” (1997) and an article appendix, “Material Culture from the 2005 Villa of Maxentius Season” in The Memoirs of the American Academy (2006). In the summers of 2010 and 2012, he co-directed the Vergilian Society’s Cumae III summer study tour around the Bay of Naples. Gregg was the Professor in Charge for the University of Georgia's six-week Rome Program from 2013 to 2019, exploring the topography, monuments and art of the city from Antiquity to the 20th century. In 2023, he and colleague Lisa Bauman launched a new January term study abroad program for GMU: "From Roman to Parisian: Shaping the Urban Experience in France from Antiquity to the Modern Age."

Selected Publications

2021 Editor. Engines of Education: Essays on the George Mason University Plaster Cast Collection. Mason Publishing Group. ISBN-978-1-942695-31-8

2021 “Art or Artifact? Reappraising the Sleeping Satyr Plaster Cast.” In Engines of Education: Essays on
the George Mason University Plaster Cast Collection. Mason Publishing Group: 1-23.

2020 “The memory of a favorite racehorse: a disc of the horse Alumnus from the Yasmina
cemetery at Carthage in the context of other circus-related iconography.” In For the Love of Carthage, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 109. Edited by J.H. Humphrey. Portsmouth, RI: 93-114.

2020 “Pompeii.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. Ed. Ruth Scodel. New York: Oxford
University Press, published July 2020. Revised and expanded from 2011/2015.

2018 Review: Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Sculpture, Volumes 1 and 2, by E. Angelicoussis (Munich 2017). In Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 14.1.

2015 Chapter 5: “Facilities on the Gianicolo.” The Centro at Fifty: The History of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, 1965-2015. Edited by M. Boatwright, M. Maas, and C.Smith: 76-98.

Grants and Fellowships

Term Faculty Grant for the Development the study abroad program "Art and Memory in Rome and Florence." Co-authored by L. Bauman. Fall 2019.

GEO Global Studies Development Grant for the study abroad program "Art and Memory in Rome and Florence." Co-authored by L. Bauman. Fall 2019.

History and Art History Teaching Development Grant for proposed course on the Roman Army and Imperial Monuments. Spring 2019.

Courses Taught

Upper Level Undergraduate

Seminars on: the Age of Augustus, Pompeii, Roman Sculpture

Curatorial Seminar: Plaster Casts

Roman Art and Architecture

Greek Art and Architecture

Hellenistic Art from Alexander to the Caesars

Design of Cities: Ancient Pompeii

Urbanism and Architecture in the Roman World: Rome, Ostia and Pompeii

History of the Ancient City

History of Ancient Greece

Pompeii: A Window into Ancient Roman Art and Society (Honors)

Greek Myth: Persistence and Change (Honors)

The Ancient City (team-taught course at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies)

The Urban Tradition: Rome from Late Antiquity to the Fascist Era (UGA Rome
Program)

Latin: Vergil, The Aeneid

Latin: Suetonius, Divus Augustus

Lower Level Undergraduate

Stories and Symbols: Greek Myth in Ancient Art

Survey of Western Art: Stone Age to Gothic

Architectural History: The Western Tradition

Classical Mythology

Introductory and Intermediate Latin

Art History Seminars:

Curatorial Seminar on the Mason Plaster Cast Collection

Art in the Age of Augustus: Visualizing the Pax Augusta

Pompeii: the Living City

Roman Imperial Sculpture: Portraiture and Monuments

Topography and Monuments of Imperial Rome

300 Level Art History Courses:

Ancient Roman Art and Archaeology

Art of Ancient Greece

Hellenistic Greek Art: from Alexander to the Caesars

Pompeii: Window on the Roman Past

100 Level Art History Courses:

Stories and Symbols: Greek Myth in Ancient Art

For the Honors Program:

Pompeii: Window on the Roman Past

Awards

Online Teaching Excellence Award Nominee for 2024

Honors College: Impactful Classroom Recognition: 2023

Honors College: Impactful Classroom Recognition: 2021

Outstanding Writing Intensive Course in a Major Recognition: Curatorial Seminar, Spring 2021

Outstanding Mason Core Arts Course: ARTH 311, Design of Cities, Spring 2021

Teaching Excellence Award Nominee, 2020, George Mason University

Teaching Excellence Award 2015 Nominee, George Mason University

Career Connection Faculty Award Nominee, 2015, George Mason University

Education

PhD, Classical Archaeology, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (2000)

MA, Latin, University of Georgia (1991)

BA, Classical Studies and Latin, University of Georgia (1989)

Media Clippings

“Art History Faculty Contribute to an Unprecedented Exhibition,” by Vyta Pivoriunaite (http://chss.gmu.edu/articles/9121), Februay 4^th, 2016.

“Roma Amor” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvvyR39rXhg&feature=youtu.be) a film by Alan Flurry on the UGA Classics in Rome program. November 8^th, 2015.