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June 18, 2008
Garrison Named Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art History at Trinity University
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Mark Garrison |
SAN ANTONIO – Mark Garrison, professor and chair of art and art history, has been appointed the Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art History at Trinity University. The professorship will begin in August.
The endowed professorship is named in honor of Alice Pratt Brown, who, with George R. Brown and Herman and Margarett Root Brown, established the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston. The fundamental mission of the Brown Foundation is to support, encourage, and assist education, the arts, and community service.
“Dr. Garrison brings to this position an excellent record as a scholar and teacher, not to mention his outstanding service to the University as department chair,” said Michael Fischer, vice president for Academic Affairs. “It is a pleasure to recognize his many achievements with this prestigious appointment.”
Professor Garrison came to Trinity in 1989 as an assistant professor. In 1994, he was promoted to associate professor and then to professor in 2000.
Professor Garrison received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Oklahoma and his master’s degree in classics from the University of Ottawa. He earned his doctorate in classical arts and archaeology from the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan.
Professor Garrison's primary research interests are the glyptic arts of ancient Iran and Iraq in the early first millennium B.C. He specializes in the glyptic preserved on two large archives from Persepolis, the Persepolis Fortification tablets, and the Persepolis Treasury tablets. With Margaret Cool Root, he is author of Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter.
In addition to the documentary work represented in that publication, his research has focused upon social aspects of glyptic production in workshops in Persepolis, the emergence and development of royal ideology in glyptic at Persepolis, religious imagery in Achaemenid art, and the relationship of glyptic of the early Achaemenid period with earlier glyptic traditions in Elam and Mesopotamia.
Professor Garrison is also the co-principal investigator of the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project, which has a goal of recording, organizing, and presenting online texts and seals imprinted on clay tablets found in the chief imperial residence of the Achaemenid kings of the ancient Persian Empire. The project recently received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities to help fund the work.
Trinity University, founded in 1869, is one of the nation’s top private undergraduate institutions. Noted for its superior academic quality, outstanding faculty, and exceptional academic and residential resources, Trinity is committed to the intellectual, civic, and professional preparation of its students.
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