Current Position: Assistenzprofessorin,  Webster Vienna Privatuniversität Country of Origin: England

Courses taught at Webster

History of Western Art, Modern Art 1860-1945,The Global Influence of American Art: 1950-present, Architectural History of Vienna, Death and Burial in the Ancient World, Roman Art and its Influence, Baroque Art and Architecture in Vienna and advised independent studies on museum culture in Vienna

Education

• Yale University:  Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, 1992
• Yale University:  M.Phil. in Classical Archaeology, 1989
• University of Wales (University College, Swansea), M.A. in Classical Archaeology, 1986
• Bryn Mawr College, B.A. cum laude  in Classical Languages, 1984

Background and Facts

Sarah Cormack came to Vienna from Duke University, North Carolina, where she taught in the departments of Art and Art History, and Classical Languages. Previous teaching appointments include University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Dartmouth College. SC has carried out archaeological survey work in Turkey, where she studied tombs of the Roman period and their social context.  Primary research interests include death and burial in the ancient and modern periods; art, commemoration and propaganda

Selected Publications

• “Classicism, Modernity and the Power of the State: The Mausoleum of Atatürk in Ankara,” (forthcoming)
• F. Krinzinger, A. Ertug and S. Cormack, Temples of Knowledge: The Library in the Western World (Istanbul and London, Ertug and Kocabiyik Press, 2009)
• "The Tombs at Pompeii," in John J. Dobbins and Pedar W. Foss, eds.  The World of Pompeii (London, Routledge Press, 2007) 585-60The Space of Death in Roman Asia Minor(Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie Volume 6, Vienna:  Phoibos Press, 2004)
• "Funerary Monuments and Mortuary Practices in Roman Asia Minor," in S. Alcock, ed.  The Early Roman Empire in the East (Oxford, Oxbow Books, 1997) 137-156
• "Funerary Monuments:  Monuments of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods," in Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East  (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Cremna in Pisidia.  An Ancient City in Peace and in War, by Stephen Mitchell, with Sarah Cormack, Robin Fursdon, Edwin Owens and Jean Ozturk (Oxford, Duckworth Press, 1995)