Ellen E. Perry

Ellen Eva Perry (born 1965)^[1] is an American classicist and classical archaeologist. She is a Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities in the Department of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.^[2]

Perry is a native of Washington, D.C.^[2] She received her undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, earning a B.A. in 1987 with a major in Greek and a minor in Latin.^[3][2] As a graduate student at the University of Michigan she received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in classical art and archaeology.^[2][4] Her 1995 dissertation was entitled "Artistic Imitation and the Roman Patron with a Study of Imitation in the Ideal Sculptures of Herodes Atticus".^[5]

From 1995 to 1997 Perry was an assistant professor at the University of Evansville in Indiana.^[6] In 1997 she joined the faculty at the College of the Holy Cross, where she received tenure in 2004 and full professorship in 2017.^[7] From 2021 to 2025 she was the Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor of Arts and Humanities,^[7] and from 2019 to 2023 she served as the director of the Holy Cross College Honors Program.^[2]

Perry is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.^[7] In 2010–2011 she was the president of the Classical Association of New England^[2] and from 2014 to 2020 she served as the chair of the Program Committee for the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.^[8][2]

• Perry, Ellen E. (2005). The Aesthetics of Emulation in the Visual Arts of Ancient Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521831659.
• Perry, Ellen E.; Longfellow, Brenda, eds. (2018). Roman Artists, Patrons, and Public Consumption: Familiar Works Reconsidered. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.9560572. ISBN 9780472130658.

• Perry, Ellen E. (2000). "Notes on Diligentia as a Term of Roman Art Criticism". Classical Philology. 95 (4). University of Chicago Press: 445–458. doi:10.1086/449511. JSTOR 270516.
• — (2002). "Rhetoric, Literary Criticism, and the Roman Aesthetics of Artistic Imitation". In Gazda, Elaine K. (ed.). The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Supplement 1. pp. 153–171. doi:10.2307/4238450. JSTOR 4238450.* — (2001). "Iconography and the Dynamics of Patronage: A Sarcophagus from the Family of Herodes Atticus". Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 70 (4): 461–492. JSTOR 3182055.
• — (2008). "Divine Statues in the Works of Libanius of Antioch: The Actual and Rhetorical Desacralization of Pagan Cult Furniture in the Late 4th Century CE". In Eliav, Yaron Z.; Friedland, Elise A.; Herbert, Sharon (eds.). The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power. Leuven: Peeters. pp. 433–444. ISBN 9789042920040.
• — (2012). "The Same, But Different: The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus through Time". In Wescoat, Bonna D.; Ousterhout, Robert G. (eds.). Architecture of the Sacred: Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 175–200. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139017640.007.
• — (2015). "Human Interactions with Statues". In Friedland, Elise A.; Sobocinski, Melanie Grunow; Gazda, Elaine E. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 653–666. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199921829.001.0001. ISBN 9780199984640.
• — (2019). "Edward Robinson's Plaster Casts and the Battle for the Museum of Fine Arts". In English, Mary C.; Fratantuono, Lee M. (eds.). Pushing the Boundaries of Historia: Essays on Greek and Roman History and Culture in Honor of Blaise Nagy. Cambridge: Routledge. pp. 280–298. ISBN 9780367732691.