Education

• Ph.D., Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder
• M.A., Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder
• B.F.A., Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder

Research Interests

Dr. Dvorsky-Rohner's interests include domestic architecture of the ancient world, women in antiquity and the Boeotian region of Greece.

Biography

Dorothy Dvorsky-Rohner was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and taught at the University of Colorado, Metropolitan State and the Community College of Denver before coming to Asheville in 1996. Dr. Rohner is Advisor for the Ancient Gardens Club at UNC-Asheville, and participates in the UNC-Asheville Summer Archaeological Dig in Italy at Fossanera (Lucca). Dr. Rohner is a ceramics specialist and will be working on the pottery excavated from the site, as well as working with the students on the dig.

Publications

• 2004, fall: Review of The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai (by Mary Steiber, University of Texas Press, 2004) in Cloelia
• 2002: "Mycenaean Jewelry and Miscellany from the Keramoupoulos Excavations;" archaeological technical illustrations in The Neolithic Settlement at Ftelia, Mykonos, Rhodes
• 1996: "Etruscan Domestic Architecture: An Ethnoarchaeological Model," in Etruscan Italy: Etruscan influences on the civilizations of Italy from antiquity to the modern era, ed. John F. Hall, Provo, pp. 115-145.

Recent Papers

• 2008: "Akropolis Korai as Cultural Sign Vehicle: The Other and The Demos", Athens Institute For Education and Research, December 29-31, Athens, Greece.
• 2008: "Intermediate Greek: Engaging the Text." CAMWS, Tucson, AZ, April 16-18
• 2007: "Beginning Greek Students: The Six Weeks Window of Opportunity," CAMWS, Cincinnati, OH, April 11-14
• "Mutable Iconography: Prometheus Bound and Philoctetes
• 2006, fall: A new look at old myth." CAMWS-Southern Section, Memphis
• 2006: "Sexual Pollution and Private Space: Did Lysias have it wrong?" CAMWS, Gainesville, FL, April 6-8
• 2004: "Sappho and Gabriela Mistral: Sisters of the Pen," at CAMWS-Southern Section, November