Dr. David Parrish

Biography

David Parrish is a Professor of Art History at Purdue University, specializing in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Art. He has published extensively on ancient Roman and late antique mosaics, particularly focusing on pavement art in Roman North Africa, while also shifting attention to mosaics in Asia Minor. Parrish is the co-director and chief organizer of a project aimed at creating a Corpus of Mosaics of Turkey, which is an international venture supported by a generous grant from the Getty Foundation. He has served as the Treasurer for the International Association for the Study of Ancient Mosaics (AIEMA) and has been twice elected President of the North American Branch of this association. Furthermore, he specializes in ancient urbanism and has authored a book on city planning and urban development in Western Asia Minor. Throughout his career, Parrish has received several awards and fellowships, including research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and fellowships at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, as well as a semester teaching appointment at the University of Paris-Val de Marne and a teaching and research fellowship at the University of Aarhus in Denmark in 2009.

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