Lisa R. Brody is Associate Curator of Ancient Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. She received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. A classical archaeologist with excavation experience in Portugal, Greece, and Turkey, her publications include Aphrodisias III: The Aphrodite of Aphrodisias. While at Yale she has organized two major exhibitions—Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, spring 2011; NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, fall 2011) and Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Yale University Art Gallery, fall 2014; McMullen Museum, spring 2015)—and co-edited their accompanying publications. Her recent research has focused on Dura-Europos, Gerasa, and intercultural connections in the Roman Near East.
