PhD; History of Art & Architecture
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Liz Neill specializes is in ancient art with interests in archaeology, digital tools, museums, provenance, and materials science. She is the founder and co-convener of the Antiracism and Museums Working Group and is a pottery studio member at Feet of Clay. Prior to BU, Liz earned an MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from Bard Graduate Center in New York. Her museum experience includes the Field Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, East Hampton Historical Society, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Before entering the PhD program, she was a Project Manager and Content Producer at a museum interactive design firm in Boston. She excavates in Boston (City Archaeology Program) and in Greece (most recently at the Lechaion Harbor and Settlement Land Project).
Dissertation [2025]
“Ancient Geographies, Modern Travels: The Provenance(s) of Imagined Creatures on Archaic Painted Pottery (660-480 BCE)” PDF
2022-2023:
Travel Grant Committee Member, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association
2021-2022:
GSO Representative, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association.
2020-2021:
Co-President and GSO Representative, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association.
Research Interests:
- Mediterranean ceramics (Bronze and Iron Age)
- Everyday objects, decorative arts
- Collections histories and futures