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Elizabeth Baltes has been awarded prestigious grant to continue her research on portrait sculpture in Athens, Greece.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What do faculty members do during\nquarantine? If you\u2019re Elizabeth Baltes, you earn prestigious grants for\ninternational research projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baltes, assistant professor of art\nhistory in the Department of Visual Arts, has won a National Endowment for the\nHumanities (NEH) grant that provides for study of portrait sculpture from the\nancient agora, or marketplace, in Athens, Greece. (The grant and related trip\nis being deferred to Summer 2021.) The NEH funded just 11 percent of submitted\nsummer stipend proposals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baltes\u2019 grant will fund an extension\nof a collaborative team book project that began in Summer 2019 with six weeks\nof field work studying excavated fragments in the Athenian agora. The team has\na projected goal of finishing field work and research by 2024. Baltes explained\nin a recent interview the nature of the project and what she hopes to learn on\nher next trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will you be doing on your research trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll be doing two things. The first is working with my  team to actually look at sculpture. None of\nthis has been studied systematically since the 1950s, and when it was studied then,\nthe person studying it was only interested in portrait heads — because that\u2019s\nthe easiest thing to identify as part of a portrait. But there are thousands\nand thousands of fragmentary pieces of sculpture that have been excavated from\nthis site, and so we\u2019re working to go through all of them to try to\nidentify  as many pieces that we can\nconfidently associate with portrait sculpture as possible. And that takes time,\nand it takes teamwork, to actually look \nat something and talk about it and figure out what it is and how it was\nworking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sacred processional way that runs through the Athenian agora in Greece, facing south towards the Acropolis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And what is the ultimate goal? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re broadly interested in reconstructing the history of portrait\nsculpture in Athens. A lot of the portrait sculpture from the Agora dates to\nthe Roman period, essentially when Rome was in control of Athens.  So these are largely talked about as Roman\nportraits. And so the narrative has been traditionally that portraits in Athens\nwere driven by what was going on in urban Rome. And so one of the things that\nwe\u2019re finding out is that that doesn\u2019t seem to be the case, that these\nportraits of local people are representing very much local concerns and\ninterests and they\u2019re not closely adhering necessarily to exactly what\u2019s\nhappening in urban Rome. So it makes us question, ok, so, so traditionally these\nhave been called Roman portraits, but what\u2019s Roman about them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you know others, including those on your team, who have applied\nfor and\/or won this grant?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was the only person who applied for this because most of my team\nmembers are at institutions that have more plentiful research funds. For me, it\nwas really important to get outside funding so I can continue this work as part\nof this team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otherwise, I don\u2019t know anyone else who has won this grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technically this grant was supposed to be for this summer, 2020. However,\nGreece has essentially shut down — none of the archaeological sites are open, so\nit isn\u2019t going to be possible. But luckily, the NEH is allowing recipients of\nsummer stipends this year to defer as late as next summer, so that\u2019s exactly\nwhat\u2019s going to happen, so the plan now is to tentatively shift everything a\nyear forward. \u2026..This grant will cover two months of work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does this work fit into your scholarship niche?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been working on various aspects of portrait sculpture since I\nwas in grad school, and I\u2019ve been working closely with material from the\nAthenian agora for the last few years, and so this is sort of a natural\nextension of the work I\u2019ve already been doing, both at the agora on portrait\nsculpture more generally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will it apply to your teaching? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m hoping it will. I\u2019m really interested in developing an\nupper-level seminar on portraiture because I am interested actually in public\nportraits from all eras. So I\u2019m hoping that will happen in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How did you react when you learned you received the grant? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I screamed a lot. It is a pretty big deal. It was really exciting to receive that kind of recognition and acknowledgement of the importance of the scholarly work that I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Baltes and her research, visit https:\/\/www.coastal.edu\/academics\/facultyprofiles\/humanities\/visualarts\/elizabethbaltes\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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