Alice Christ
Associate Professor of Art HistoryOffice: 201A Fine Arts Bldg.
Telephone: 859.257.2303
Email: Alice.Christ@uky.edu
Education: University of Chicago, Ph.D.
Alice Christ is presently the Art History Area Head, also co-president of UK’s campus chapter of American Association of University Professors. She teaches courses in Roman, Early Christian and Medieval Art. Recent graduate students have written on the iconography of the Brescia Casket as a moral, rather than a theological program, perhaps related to a function as a money box for a ceremony of alms collection in the late-fourth-century Christian church; and on participation of Vitruvius in an Augustan program for legitimating empire through construction of religious and cultural categories of Greekness and Roman-ness in theater types.
Dr. Christ has published on Roman cremation and burial, “Consuming Bodies in Early Imperial Rome,” Bulletin of Ancient History 10 (1997): 93-109; and on toga statues and Roman ideals of manhood, or how a promising young man should drop his toga, “The Masculine Ideal of ‘the Race that Wears the Toga’,” Art Journal: How Men Look: The Masculine Ideal and the Body Beautiful,eds. William Stern and William Hood (Summer, 1997): 24-30. Her book The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus: Making and Meaning is in the final stages of picture preparation for the University of Wisconsin Press. She is presently working on a series of case studies of canon formation in early Christian iconography. Because she was a Russian major in college (Princeton), she has also published on medieval and modern Russian icon-painting