Dr. Jenifer Neils (pronounced like the river in Egypt), a classical archaeologist and art historian, is the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of art history and classics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Professor Neils earned her undergraduate degree magna cum laude at Bryn Mawr College, a master’s degree from Sydney University in Australia, and an MFA and PhD from Princeton University. A seasoned excavator, Professor Neils has worked at an Etruscan palace in central Italy, a Hellenistic city in northern Greece, and the Sicilian site of Morgantina. She has published material from all of these sites, and is a regular contributor to archaeological and art historical journals. Professor Neils’ research has taken her to most countries around the Mediterranean, and she has been a resident scholar or visiting professor at the American Academy in Rome, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles. For six years Professor Neils was on the curatorial staff of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and has organized a number of exhibitions devoted to ancient art. In 1992 she curated and wrote the catalogue for "Goddess and Polis: the Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens", and is presently co-organizing an exhibit on childhood in ancient Greece which will open in 2003. Her most recent book entitled "The Parthenon Frieze" is due out from Cambridge University Press in September. Professor Neils has been a study leader on numerous trips in the Mediterranean.

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