Ann Gunter

Ann C. Gunter is an art historian and Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on visual and material culture of the ancient Near East and neighboring parts of the eastern Mediterranean.

Education Gunter attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating magna cum laude in 1973. She went on to Columbia University where she earned an M.A. (1975), M.Phil. (1976) and Ph.D. (1980). "Beyond 'Orientalizing': Encounters among Cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean," in Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age, eds. J. Aruz, S. B. Graff, and Y. Rakic (Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2014) "Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean" in Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art, eds. B. A. Brown and M. H. Feldman (DeGruyter, 2014) "The Etruscans, Greek Art, and the Near East" in A Companion to the Etruscans, eds. S. Bell and A. Carpino (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016)