Irene J. Winter

Irene J. Winter (born 1940 in New York City ) is an American art historian who is an influential and pioneering scholar of ancient Near Eastern art.

Life BA Barnard College, Anthropology, 1960; MA University of Chicago, Near Eastern Studies, 1967; PhD Columbia University, Art History and Archaeology. She has taught at Queens College, CUNY, 1971-1976, The University of Pennsylvania, 1976-1988, and Harvard University since 1988, chairing the department of Fine Arts from 1993-1996, and served on the Faculty Council, 2006-2009; retired June 2009. Slade Professor, University of Cambridge, 1997. She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and the American Philosophical Society in 2016.

Awards 2009 The Barnard College Medal of Distinction 2005 A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 2003-2004 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellows 1983 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works On Art in the Ancient Near East, 2 Vols. Brill Academic Publishers, 2010,