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Bonna Daix Wescoat

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Bonna Daix Wescoat
OccupationArt historian
TitleSamuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History
Academic work
InstitutionsEmory University

Bonna Daix Wescoat is an art historian and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Emory University. Her work focuses on ancient Greek art and architecture, particularly Archaic and Hellenistic architecture and sculpture.[1]

Wescoat joined the art history faculty of Emory University in 1982, and helped to build the Michael C. Carlos Museum and the program in ancient Mediterranean studies.[2]

Wescoat was a 2014 Guggenheim fellow in the Classics.[3] Her Guggenheim project, “Insula Sacra: Samothrace and the Sanctuary of the Great Gods,” deals with place and cult from the seventh century B.C. through the Renaissance.[2]

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  1. ^ "Bonna Daix Wescoat". arthistory.emory.edu. Emory University. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b Hudson, Phil W. (May 9, 2014). "Emory University archaeologist wins Guggenheim Fellowship". Atlanta Business Chronicle. Business Journals. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  3. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Bonna Wescoat". www.gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Samothracian Connections". www.oxbowbooks.com. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  5. ^ "Architecture of the Sacred - Cambridge University Press". www.cambridge.org. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  6. ^ "The Temple of Athena at Assos". Oxford University Press. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2017.