Professor of Classics and Art History, Mary Stieber received her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Princeton University and an M.A. at Princeton University; B.F.A. at Carnegie Mellon; and an M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. She has published widely on the interrelationships between Greek art and literature. Her books reflect the range of her scholarly interests: The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai (2004) and Euripides and the Language of Craft (2011). A long-standing passion is Plato (and, of course, Socrates), in particular, his acquaintance with, and use of, the visual arts in the dialogues; she is currently engaged in writing an article on the artist and the Forms in the Republic. Other continuing areas of interest include Homer, Greek tragedy, and, on the Roman side, the Augustan era. The projected title of her latest book-in-progress is Paragone:  The Rivalry Among the Arts in Classical Antiquity.

Core courses:  HSS1 and HSS2

Sample Elective Courses

Greek Mythology
Eros in Antiquity
The Life and Death of Socrates
Plato’s Republic
Greek Tragedy
Homer and Greek Tragedy
The Age of Augustus
Ut Pictura Poesis
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
 

Books

The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai

Euripides and the Language of Craft

Nina Ebner, Assistant Professor of Social Geography, is a feminist, urban, and economic geographer. Her research explores the uneven socio-spatial relations that shape unjust urban political economies and ecologies, with a focus on lived experiences of economic and environmental inequality and their contestation.

For nearly eight years, Nina has been based in the urban U.S.-Mexico borderlands, using transnational, qualitative, and collaborative methodologies to examine the relationship between industrialization, border militarization, the politics of economic precarity, and climate change. She has published widely on these topics in journals such as Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Global Social Policy, Third World Quarterly, NACLA, and IJURR. Nina is also working on Lives on the Line, a book project that traces the evolution of the U.S.-Mexico border region as a site of economic ‘competitiveness’ built on low-wage factory labor and border enforcement. In addition to exploring how workers use cross-border livelihood strategies to navigate economic uncertainty, she argues that the geopolitical border shapes the racialized and relational hierarchies of value that underwrite the devaluation of labor key to the borderlands’ political economy and to capitalism’s uneven development on a global scale. Alongside this book project, Nina is continuing her research on transnational geographies of social reproduction, examining how restructured social protection policies are reshaping landscapes of precarious labor in border cities. Alongside colleagues at Clark University and the University of Toronto, she is also engaged in a collaborative project that explores how urban political ecologies in the borderlands are shaping, and being shaped by, the climate crisis. This project investigates these relationships through the prism of extreme heat, with a focus on how border militarization shape municipal and community responses to new climate stressors. As a part of these projects, she has been very lucky to have learned with and from brilliant graduate and undergraduate students, and looks forward to continuing this work. Please reach out to Nina if you are a student interested in talking about working together.

Nina received her PhD from the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. She also holds an MSc in Community Development from the University of California, Davis, and a BA in Labor History from Yale University. She was previously a postdoctoral research fellow, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation, at the Colegio de México in Mexico City, in the Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales (CEDUA) and a postdoctoral Fellow at the UT Austin’s Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. 
 

Dennis Adams’ work addresses historical and sociopolitical undercurrents in photography, cinema, Public space and architecture. He has realized over fifty urban projects in cities worldwide—from Antwerp to Zagreb. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in museums throughout North America and abroad, including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Sculpture Project in Münster Germany, the Centro de Arte Contempråneo Wilfredo Lam, Havanna, Cuba; the Jeu de Paume, Paris; the Mies Van Der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona; the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.

Adams artworks are included in extensive public collections both in the United States and abroad.    He is a recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Awards in: 1984,1988, and 1995; the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence Program in 1989; and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.

Adams has taught at numerous institutions, including: Parsons School of Design, New York; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich; Malmö Art Academy, Sweden; the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway; and the Metropolis Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urban Culture in Barcelona.  From 1997 to 2001, he was Director of the Visual Arts Program and Professor in the School of Architecture at MIT—before joining the School of Art faculty at The Cooper Union in 2001, where he currently teaches Three-Dimensional Design and Sculpture.

Adams received his BFA from Drake University in Des Moines in 1969 and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1971.