Kris Seaman is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Classics and in the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies. Educated at Yale University and the University of California at Berkeley, she was a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, and she carried out additional archaeological training at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. She has done archaeological fieldwork in Greece, Israel, Italy, and the United States, and she has studied the practice of stone-carving.

Her research deals with Greek art and architecture, its interaction with Rome and the Middle East, and classical reception in contemporary popular culture. She is the author of Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art (Cambridge 2020) and the co-editor (with Peter Schultz) of Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2017). Currently, she is working on a book project that explores art and work in the Greek sculpture industry; co-editing (with S. Rebecca Martin) a book about the contexts of Greek sculpture; and examining excavated sculpture and tools from a sculptural workshop in the Athenian Agora. 

Kris has received several fellowships and grants, including funding from the Archaeological Institute of America, the Fulbright Foundation, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (IKY).

ARH 204  Ancient Mediterranean Art

ARH 321  Ancient Jewish Art and Architecture

ARH 322  Greek Art and Architecture

ARH 4|521 Topics in Ancient Mediterranean Art (topics vary)

ARH 607  Art and Work

Yale University, BA

University of California at Berkeley, MA and PhD