Mary Ann Eaverly

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Mary Ann Eaverly is a professor of Classics at the University of Florida, known for her work on Archaic Greek sculpture and its iconography in Greek and Egyptian art. She studied Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Michigan, earning a PhD in 1986 with a dissertation on The Equestrian Statue in Archaic Greek Sculpture. She spent 1982–84 at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and was a Vanderpool Fellow in 1984. Eaverly joined UF in 1986 and has led the Classics Department since 2015. In 2016 she received the Greenia Fellowship for Parthenon, Pilgrimage, and Panathenaia: A Re-examination of Archaic Greek Votive Statues. Her books include the first, based on her dissertation (1995), and Tan Men, Pale Women: Color and Gender in Ancient Greece and Egypt (2013). She has also written on archaeological imagery in modernist poetry with Marsha Bryant, and together they curated the Classical Convergences exhibition at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in 2014–15.