Susann S. Lusnia

Associate Professor

Suzanne & Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Jones Hall 210 A

Education

Ph.D. in Classics, concentration in Classical Archaeology, University of Cincinnati, 1998M.A. in Classics, University of Cincinnati, 1990B.A. in Latin, University of Mary Washington (formerly Mary Washington College), 1985

Biography

Teaching Posts

1998-1999	Assistant Professor, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome
1999-2000	Acting Assistant Professor, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA (now Randolph College)
2000-2003	Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2003-2008	Assistant Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2008-Present	Associate Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2011-2012	Faculty Scholar, Center for Public Service, Tulane University
2011-2013	Director, Classical Summer School, American Academy in Rome (Italy)

Administrative Posts

2011-2014	Assistant Director for Classroom Engagement, Center for Engaged Learning & Teaching, Tulane University
2014-2018	Executive Director, CELT
2018-2021	Department Chair, Classical Studies

Recent Grants & Awards

1991-1992	Fulbright Grant: Rome, Italy
1994-1996	Rome Prize Fellowship (Frank Brown-Samuel H. Kress Foundation), American Academy in Rome (Italy)
2003	Friedrich Stoll Grant, Tulane University
2004	COR Grant, Tulane University
2005	Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA
2006-2007	Tulane University Research Enhancement Grant
2015	Freidrich Stoll Grant, Tulane University
2015	Lurcy Grant, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University
2016	Samuel H. Kress Grant for Research and Publication in Classical Art and Architecture, Archaeological Institute of America
2016	Lurcy Grant, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University
2017	Lavin Bernick Grant, Tulane University
2017	Lurcy Grant, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University

Publications

Book:

Creating Severan Rome: The Architecture and Self-Image of L. Septimius Severus. Collection Latomus, v. 345. Bruxelles, 2014. (https://www.latomus.be/Collection.html)

Articles:

“Julia Domna's Coinage and Severan Dynastic Propaganda," Latomus 54 (1995) 119-140.

"The Septizodium in Rome: A Political Image in Monumental Style." In Casey, J., Warnement, M., Whelton, J. & Wingenter, A. (eds.), Layfayette, IN, Bordighera Press (2000): 201-15.

“Urban Planning and Sculptural Display in Severan Rome: Reconstructing the Septizodium and its Role in Dynastic Politics,” American Journal of Archaeology 108 (2004): 517-544.

“Battle Imagery and Politics on the Severan Arch in the Forum.” In S. Dillon and K. Welch (eds.), Representations of War in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2006): 272-299. (on Amazon)

"Redating the Septizodium and Severan Propaganda." In Mattusch, C., Donohue, A. & Brauer, A. (eds.), Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities (Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003). Oxford, Oxbow Books (2006): 196-9. (at David Brown Book Co.)

"Pompeii on the Mississippi: the view from New Orleans." In Traumatology 14.4 (2008): 67-74 (special issue on Hurricane Katrina).

Articles for Wiley-Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Editors: R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine, & S. Hübner): Rome, Severan and third century; Septimius Severus Pertinax Augustus, Lucius ; Didius Severus Julianus Augustus, Marcus; Opellius Antoninus Diadumenianus Augustus, Marcus; Clodius Albinus, Decimus; Fulvius Plautianus, Gaius; and Julia Domna

In the News...

Article in The New Wave on TIDE course, Loot, Plunder & Pillage

Interests

Archaeology of Italy and the Roman Empire; Roman material culture and civilization; politics and propaganda in art and architecture; urban topography and monuments of Rome; monumentality in ancient art and architecture

Images from Lusnia's travels