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Lee Ann Riccardi is Professor of Art History and Classical Studies in the Department of Art & Art History at The College of New Jersey, where she has been faculty since 1997. She is an ancient art historian specializing in Roman portraiture, especially portraits produced in the Greek world. She holds both a BA and an MA in The History of Art from Ohio State University and a PhD in Art History from Boston University. Her PhD dissertation, Roman Imperial Portraiture in the Eastern Provinces, A.D. 235-270. A Study of the Reception and Rejection of Imperial Models, was an investigation into the variety of imperial portrait types shown on obverses of Roman provincial coins produced in the Greek speaking provinces of the Roman Empire, and she has maintained her interest in provincial portraits ever since. Her publications and public presentations have often been on some aspect of this topic. She was a Fulbright scholar in Greece and has archaeological experience there, having worked at the Athenian Agora, Isthmia, Corinth, and in Epirus on the Nikopolis Project. Dr. Riccardi has also been active in the area of education abroad, taking students on study abroad programs most often to Greece and Italy, but also to Turkey and France. She also served as Interim Director of the Center for Global Engagement at The College of New Jersey, and later worked with TCNJ's education abroad programs in various capacities. Dr. Riccardi is committed to broadening the appeal of the study of the ancient world by emphasizing the diversity within it and prioritizing the investigation of provincial Roman art.