Dr. Elizabeth Walters

Biography

Elizabeth Walters is an Associate Professor in Art History specializing in ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art and architecture. She has been teaching at Penn State since 1982 and has been actively involved in archaeological fieldwork in various sites including Pakistan, Greece, and Egypt. Walters has led the Study Abroad program in Athens and was a Norbert Schimmel Fellow in Archaeology at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her academic publications include studies such as 'Attic Grave Reliefs Represent Women Dress Isis,' published in the Hesperia Supplement XXII by the American School of Classical Studies. She has a keen research interest in Greek sculpture, having collaborated on Agora excavations in Athens. Currently, she serves as the director of the Temple-Town Hierakonpolis Project, an archaeological initiative in Egypt. Walters holds a Bachelor’s degree from Vassar College, a Master’s degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a PhD from the same institution.

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