JAMES G. SCHRYVER
IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
Academic
Rank
Associate Professor, Art History,
Division of the Humanities
Appointed to the Graduate Field of
Medieval Studies at the Twin Cities campus, Spring 2007
Education
Degree Institution Date Degree Granted
B.A. Boston University 1997
Archaeological
Studies
M.A Cornell University 2000
Medieval
Studies
Ph.D. Cornell University 2005
Medieval Studies
[Advisors for Ph.D.: Robert T. Farrell†, Cynthia Robinson, Kathryn
L. Gleason, Sherene B.
Baugher]
Positions/Employment
Cornell University
Instructor of Art History Spring
2001; Spring 2005
Teaching Assistant 1998-2004
Current
Membership in Professional Organizations
Visiting
Professorships or Visiting Scholar Positions
*Trinity College Dublin;
Department of Classics; September 2010; The Archaeology of
Frankish
Cyprus.
*Discovery Programme, Dublin,
Ireland; September 2010; Tulsk Archaeological Excavations.
*University of Copenhagen / SAXO
Institute; Department of Classical Archaeology; October –
December 2010; Artefact variability, assemblage differentiation,
and identity negotiation network member / The Archaeology of Frankish Cyprus.
Grants
and Contracts
External
Sources (federal {NIH, NSF, DEO, etc.}or state grants, foundation awards, etc.)
University
Sources
University of Minnesota, Imagine Fund
Award, Spring 2010 ($4000).
University of Minnesota, Imagine Fund
Award, Spring 2009 ($3000).
University of Minnesota, Office of
International Programs Grant, Spring 2009 ($1972);
Spring 2011 ($3500).
*University of Minnesota, Morris,
Faculty Research Enhancement Fund Grant, Fall 2008 ($250);
Spring 2009
($750); Spring 2009 ($1500); Fall 2009 ($750); Spring 2010 ($250) and ($750);
Spring 2011
($1000) and ($300).
UMN GIA Award Category 1 (submitted
February 2008; awarded April 2008; administered
Summer 2009; $19,242).
UMM Faculty Enrichment Project (FEP).
With Brad Deane, 2008-2009.
University of Minnesota, Morris,
Faculty Research Enhancement Fund Grant, Spring 2008 ($750).
University of Minnesota, Institute for
Advanced Study, Alternate, Spring 2008.
University of Minnesota, Morris,
Faculty Research Enhancement Fund Grant, Fall 2007 ($1500 &
$450).
University of Minnesota, Morris, IPC
Small Grant with J. Deane for internationalizing the
curriculum, 2007 ($1500).
Participation in the University of
Minnesota, Morris, 2006 Bush Grant.
University of Minnesota, Morris, IPC
Small Grant for internationalizing the curriculum, 2006
($1500).
University of Minnesota, Morris,
Research Enhancement Grant, Summer 2006 ($500).
Graduate
Honors and Awards
Cornell University Sage Continuing
Fellowship, 2003-04.
Fulbright Fellowship to Cyprus,
2002-03.
ACOR CAORC Fellowship, Summer 2003.
Lady Davis Fellowship, 2002-03. Declined.
Cyprus American Archaeological
Research Institute, Anita Cecil O’Donovan Fellowship, 2001.
Albright Institute of Archaeological
Research, George A. Barton Fellowship, 2001-2002.
Official Alternate, CAORC
Multi-Country Fellowship, 2001.
Jacob and Hedwig Hirsch Scholarship
for Travel, Summer 2001.
Cornell University Graduate School
Scholarship for Conference Travel, April 2001.
Dorot Foundation Travel Grant Award,
Fall 2000.
Manon Michels Einaudi Travel Grant,
Spring 2000.
Dorot Foundation Travel Grant, Summer
1999.
Jacob and Hedwig Hirsch Scholarship
for Travel, Summer 1998, 1999.
Cornell University Graduate School
Scholarship for Conference Travel, Nov. 1998.
Cornell University Sage Fellowship,
1997-98.
Recent
Archaeological Excavations
Summer 2009: Assistant Director of the Petra Garden and
Pool Complex Excavations.
Overall
excavation supervisor, logistics, supplies, and student training. Five weeks.
Summer 2006, 2007, 2008: Participant on The Discovery Programme’s
excavation at Tulsk, Co.
Roscommon, Ireland, for an average of four weeks each
summer. Trench supervisor responsible
for excavation, student training, recording and reporting of stratigraphy and
finds.
Publications
(all co-authored publications
involved equal participation in research, writing, and revising by myself and
my collaborators unless otherwise noted.)
Books or Monographs
*Editor: Studies in the Archaeology of the Medieval
Mediterranean, Brill Press (September, 2010).
Series: The Medieval Mediterranean, 86. ISBN-13:
978 90 04 18175 5; ISBN-10: 90 04
18175 X
Refereed Journal Articles
“Ugolini’s
Presentation of Butrint to the Italian Public: Exploration, Poetics, and
Politics.” Expedition
Magazine 51, no.3 (Winter 2009): 21-23.
“Unraveling
Butrint: Putting together a city’s
history by rebuilding its walls.” Expedition
Magazine 51,
no.3 (Winter 2009): 10-17.
Book Chapters
*“Types
of Gardens: Looking towards, not from, Northwest Christendom.” 22 pages, double-spaced;
8,000 words.
Submitted to the volume editor, Michael Leslie, for publication in a
volume on the culture of medieval gardens to be published by Berg Publishers of
Oxford, UK.
“Editor’s
Preface.” and “Introduction.” In Studies in the Archaeology of the Medieval
Mediterranean,
ed. James G. Schryver, vii-ix and
1-13. Brill Press (September, 2010). Series:
The Medieval
Mediterranean,
86. ISBN-13: 978 90 04 18175 5; ISBN-10: 90 04 18175 X
“Colonialism
or Conviviencia in Frankish Cyprus?” In Boundaries in Depth and in Motion, ed.
I.
William Zartman, 133-159. Athens, GA:
University of Georgia Press, 2010.
“The
Garden.” With K. Gleason and L.
Passalacqua. In The “Villa of Horace” at Licenza, Final Report
of the Excavations
1996-1999, eds. Bernard Frischer,
Jane Crawford, and Monica De Simone, 71-96.
Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006. With the exception of a few paragraphs, this
chapter entirely researched, written, and revised by Kathryn Gleason and
myself.
“Nabataean Landscape & Power: Evidence from the Petra Garden & Pool
Complex.” With L.-A. Bedal.
In Crossing Jordan – North American Contributions to the Archaeology of
Jordan, eds. Thomas E. Levy, P. M. Michèle Daviau, Randall W. Younker, and
May Shaer, 375-383. London: Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2007.
“Monuments
of Identity: Latin, Greek, Frank and
Cypriot?” In Identités croisées en un milieu
méditerranéen: le cas de Chypre (Antiquité – Moyen Âge), eds. S. Fourrier and G.
Grivaud, 385-405. Mont-Saint-Aignan
Cedex: Publications des Universités de
Rouen et du Havre, 2006.
Non-refereed Journal Articles
*”The
Reconstruction of Roman Gardens.” Sphinx
(Forthcoming).
“The
Petra Garden and Pool Complex, 2003-2005.”
With L.-A. Bedal and K. Gleason. ADAJ
[Annual of
the
Department of Antiquities of Jordan] 51
(2007): 151-176.
“The
Graffiti in the ‘Royal Chapel’ at Pyrga.” With C. Schabel. Report of the Department of Antiquities,
Cyprus (2003):
327-34.
Refereed Proceedings of Conferences
“The Later Antique and Early Medieval Gardens of the
East.” In Proceedings of the XVII
International
Congress of
Classical Archaeology. Bolletino di Archeologia, Volume Speciale. ISSN 2039-0076. http://151.12.58.75/archeologia/bao_document/articoli/2_SCHRYVER.pdf
“Cyprus at the Crossroads: Understanding the Paths taken in the Art and
Architecture of Frankish
Cyprus.” In POCA 2005: Postgraduate Cypriot
Archaeology, eds. G. Papantoniou, A. Fitzgerald, and S. Hargis, 13-23. BAR International Series 1803. Oxford:
Archaeopress, 2008.
“Is There ONE Crusader Archaeology?” In SOMA
2004: Symposium on Mediterranean
Archaeology.
Proceedings
of the eighth annual meeting of postgraduate researchers, School of Classics,
Trinity College Dublin. 20-22 February
2004, eds. Jo Day et al.,
155-160. BAR International Series
1514. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006.
“From Field Books to Powerbook: Computer Applications and the Promontory
Palace of Herod the
Great.” In Archaeological
Informatics: Pushing the Envelope, CAA
2001, ed. G. Burenhult, 413-6.
BAR International Series 1016.
Oxford: Archaeopress, 2002.
Book Reviews and Other Publications
*Review of The
North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe, edited by James Muldoon, The
Expansion
of Latin Europe,
1000-1500 vol. 3. Variorum, 2009. Pp. 434 including general editors’ preface,
introduction, and index. ISBN:
978-0-7546-5958-7 (Hb). In Eolas 4
(2010): 127-9.
Review of The Archaeology of Medieval Europe,
Vol.1: Eighth to Twelfth Centuries AD, edited by James
Graham-Campbell and Magdalena Valor, Acta Jutlandica
83:1, Humanities Series 79. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2007. In Eolas
3 (2009): 63-73.
Review of The
Vikings in the Isle of Man, by David M. Wilson. Aarhus:
Aarhus University Press, 2008.
In Eolas 3 (2009): 74-81.
“MARQ – En
Catalansk Perle af et Arkæologisk Museum.” [MARQ – A Catalonian Pearl of an
Archaeological Museum]. With M. C. Hermannsen. ARCUS: The Journal of the Danish Association of
Classical Archaeologists 1 (August
2008): 5-9. [In Danish; Translated by
Mette C. Hermannsen].
“Gamle fund i nyt
lys.” [New Light on Old Finds] Nyt fra Nationalmuseet 119
(June-July-August 2008):
34-5. [In Danish; Translated by John Lund
of the National Museum].
“Obituary:
Robert T. Farrell, 1939-2003.”
With N. Brady. Antiquity 77, no.298 (Dec. 2003): 878-9.
Presentations
Invited Presentations at Professional
Meetings, Conferences, etc.
“The materiality of evolving identities: The creation,
expression and maintenance of social, economic and political identities through
material culture,” Inaugural lecture for the launching of the network: Artefact
variability, assemblage differentiation and identity negotiation (AVADIN) at the
SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday, November 5, 2010.
“The Archaeology of the Crusader States,” St. Louis
University, St. Louis, MO, May 8, 2007.
“The Archaeology of the Crusader States,” Minneapolis
Institute of Arts and the Archaeological Institute
of
America, MIA, Minneapolis, Oct. 19, 2006.
“Crusader Castles on Cyprus,” National University of
Ireland, Galway, Feb. 20, 2004.
“The Archaeology of Roman Gardens,” Boston University,
Nov. 4, 2003.
“The Archaeology of Crusader Cyprus,” WSBA
Archaeological Society, Episkopi, Cyprus, May 8, 2003.
“Identity and Interaction in the Art and Archaeology
of Frankish Cyprus,” Cyprus American
Archaeological
Research Institute, May 7, 2003.
“The Late Phases and Destruction Sequence at the
Promontory Palace at Caesarea,” Workshop as the
George
A. Barton Fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research,
Jan. 31, 2002.
Served as the Archaeological Lecturer for a class
through SUNY Potsdam on King Arthur traveling through Brittany and England, May
22 – June 1, 2001.
Contributed
Papers Presented at Professional Meetings and Conferences
* “Excavating the Identities of Frankish Cyprus,” at the
Joint Newton Fellowship and Annual ICS
Byzantine Colloquium, IDENTITY /
IDENTITIES IN LATE MEDIEVAL CYPRUS, King’s College, London, June 13, 2011.
“The Emerging View of Crusader Presence in the
Oultre-Jourdain,” at Crusades: Medieval Worlds in
Conflict, The
Second International Symposium on Crusade Studies, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, February 20,
2010.
“Ruins, Remembrance and Royalty:
The O’Conors’ use of Ancient Monuments and Landscapes,” at
Beyond Saints
and Scholars: Irish Medieval Studies in
the Twenty-First Century, St. Louis
University, St. Louis, MO, October 27, 2008.
“The Later Antique and Early Medieval Gardens of the East,” at XVII International Congress of
Classical
Archaeology, Rome, Italy, September
25, 2008.
“The Archaeology of Frankish Cyprus: the first hundred years,” at IV International Cyprological
Congress, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 1, 2008.
“Irish Medieval Studies as a Field of Study: A view from the Mediterranean,” at Twenty-First Irish
Conference
of Medievalists, Limerick, Ireland,
June 29, 2007.
“The relationship of urban center and rural countryside in Frankish
Cyprus,” at ASOR Annual Meeting
2006, Washington, DC, November 16, 2006.
“The Many Layers of Hugh IV’s Brass Basin,” at 41st International Congress on
Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan
University, May 5, 2006.
“Cyprus at the Crossroads:
Understanding the Paths taken in the Art and Architecture of Frankish
Cyprus,” at POCA 2005,
Trinity College Dublin, October 22, 2005.
“Staying involved in the Past to help it into the Future,” at 40th
International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, May 5, 2005.
“Spheres of Contact and Instances of Interaction: Towards an Understanding of the Boundaries of
Frankish Cyprus,” at Western Social Science
Association, 47th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 16,
2005.
“Cyprus at the Crossroads:
Understanding the Paths taken in the Art and Architecture of Frankish
Cyprus,” at A Mosaic of Cultures: Artistic Interactions in Medieval Europe,
Byzantium and the Islamic World, An Art History Symposium, Villanova
University, March 19, 2005.
“Both Violent Conflicts AND Accommodation and Acculturation in the
Material Culture of Frankish
Cyprus,” at 39th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, May 8, 2004.
“Monuments of Identity: Latin, Greek, Crusader and Cypriot,” at Identités
croisées en un milieu
méditerranéen: le cas de Chypre, Colloque international, Rouen,
France, March 13, 2004.
“Is There ONE Crusader Archaeology?” at Symposium on Mediterranean
Archaeology, Dublin, Ireland,
February 21, 2004.
“The Archaeology of Frankish Cyprus,” at The 105th Annual Meeting of
the Archaeological Institute of
America, San Francisco, CA, January 4, 2004.
“New Perspectives on Frankish Settlement in the Latin East and Their
Implications,” at 38th International
Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University,
May 8, 2003.
“The Possibilities of a 3d GIS for Stratigraphic Analyses,” at ASOR
Annual Meeting 2002, Toronto,
Canada, November 23,
2002.
“From Field Books to Powerbook:
Computer Applications and the Promontory Palace of Herod the
Great,” at Computer
Applications in Archaeology, Visby, Gotland, Sweden, April 28, 2001.
“Medieval Settlement at the Villa of Horace,” at The 102nd Annual
Meeting of the Archaeological
Institute of America, San Diego, CA, January 6, 2001.
“The Decline or End of the Promontory Palace of Herod the Great,” at ASOR
Annual Meeting 2000,
Nashville, Tennessee,
December 18, 2000.
“Brithnoth Diminished,” at The 34th International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, May 8, 1999.
Local and Regional Papers and Presentations
“The connections between Archaeology and Art History,” PRCA Board of
Directors, Morris, MN, April
8, 2010.
“Communities, Interaction and Change on Frankish Cyprus,” University of
Minnesota, Center for
Medieval Studies, Colloquia Medievalia. University of Minnesota, March 8, 2007.
“Recent Excavations in the Petra Garden and Pool Complex (Summer 2004
and 2005),” UMM
Anthropology/Sociology
Society, April 12, 2006.
“Crusader Ceramics and What They can Tell us about Cultural interaction
in the Latin East,” TAFS,
University of Minnesota,
Morris, Dec. 7, 2006.
“Crusader Archaeology: Present
Knowledge and Future Directions,” University of Minnesota
Archaeology Consortium,
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Oct. 6, 2005.
“A
Question of Context and Producers of Art,” at The History of Art Annual
Graduate Symposium,
Cornell University, March
4, 2000.
“Why Dig Medieval Dirt?” at The Medieval Studies Student Colloquium,
Cornell University, February
26, 2000.
“How Much Should We Teach?” at The Two Cultures: Humanities and Science in Archaeology,
Boston
University, November 6,
1999.
“Artistic Propaganda between Muslims and Christians in Medieval Spain,”
at People of the Book:
Islamic, Judaic and Christian Cultures in Contact
during the Middle Ages, Yale
University, April 17, 1999.
“Saints as Gardeners: Sowing the
Seeds of a New Faith,” at The Medieval Studies Student Colloquium,
Cornell University,
February 6, 1999.
“Excavating the Landscape: The
Sights within Sites,” with Elisabeth E. Clemence, at Animal, Vegetable,
Mineral: Using
Specialist Studies in Archaeological Interpretation, Boston University, October 31, 1998.
“Images
of Rebirth and Resurrection in Early Christian Art: Representations of Daniel in the Lion's Den,
the Three Hebrews in the Fiery Furnace, and Jonah and
the Whale,” at The History of Art and Archaeology Graduate Students Annual
Graduate Symposium, Cornell University, February 21, 1998.
TEACHING AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
University of Minnesota
ArtH
1101: Principles of Art, Spring 2006,
2007, 2009
ArtH
1111: Ancient and Medieval Art, Fall
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 Spring 2008, 2011
ArtH
3101: Art and Archaeology of Ancient
Greece, Fall 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011
ArtH
3111: Art and Archaeology of Ancient
Rome, Spring 2006, 2008, 2010
ArtH
3112: Byzantine Art and Empire, Fall
2006, 2008, Spring 2011
ArtH
3113: Islamic Art and Culture, Spring
2007, 2009
ArtH
3121: Medieval Italian Art, Spring 2006,
2009
ArtH
3132: Castles and Cathedrals, Spring
2008, 2010
ArtH
3311: Italian Renaissance and Baroque
Art in Context, Spring 2006, 2010.
Co-taught with Julia
Dabbs.
ArtH
3993/IS 3810/ArtH 4993: Directed Study,
Fall 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; Spring 2006, 2007, 2009
ArtH
4901: Capstone Assessment of Student
Experience in Art History, Spring 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
2010.
Co-taught with Julia Dabbs and Joel Eisinger.
ArtH
4993: Archaeology of Medieval Ireland,
Summer 2007, 2008
IS
3996: Interdisciplinary Internship, Fall
2007
Curriculum Development
University
of Minnesota, Morris, IPC Small Grant with J. Deane for internationalizing the
curriculum,
2007 ($1500).
Participation
in the University of Minnesota, Morris, 2006 Bush Grant.
University
of Minnesota, Morris, IPC Small Grant for internationalizing the curriculum,
2006 ($1500).
Faculty Development
Activities regarding teaching
UMM
Faculty Enrichment Project (FEP). With Brad Deane. 2008-2009.
ADVISING AND MENTORING
Undergraduate Student
Activities
Metamorphosis
*Edited work by Nadine Frassetto, “Pardoning
Passing in Comedy: American Style,” for submission and publication in the
undergraduate, on-line journal Metamporphosis.
http://www.coplac.org/metamorphosis/metamorphosis.php
*Edited
work by Abram L. Henry, “Struggling Against the Injustice: The Historical
Context and Social Justice in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of
Solitude,” for submission and
publication in the undergraduate, on-line journal Metamporphosis.
http://www.coplac.org/metamorphosis/metamorphosis.php
Honors
Theses
2010-2011: The Economics of Medieval Castles and Manors
(with Jennifer Deane and Arne Kildegaard).
2006-2007: Chris Battaglia (with Jennifer Deane), Kate Droske
(with Sarah Buchanan), Carsten Knoche
(with Kevin Flicker). All of these had public presentations.
Senior
Theses
2009-2010 The Art and Politics of Akhenaton (with
Jennifer Deane)
MAP (Morris Academic Partnership)
2008-2009:
The Use of Heracles in Early Christian Art
Spring 2008:
The Archaeology of the Medieval Mediterranean
Fall 2008:
The Archaeology of the Medieval Mediterranean
2006-2007:
Byzantine Petra
UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity
Program)
Spring 2010:
The Use of Heracles in Early Christian Art
Spring 2009:
X-ray Diffraction Analysis of Mortar Samples from Kiltasheen, Co.
Roscommon, Ireland
Spring 2008:
The Realities behind Greek Myths
Advising
2010-11: On Leave Fall 2010.
2009-10: 5 advisees
2008-09:
7 advisees
2007-08: 8 advisees
2006-07: 4 advisees
Visiting Scholars Hosted
*Dr.
Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College. February 2011. With Jennifer Deane
(History).
Dr.
Niall Brady, Discovery Programme, Dublin, Ireland. October 2007.
SERVICE AND PUBLIC OUTREACH
Service To The Discipline/Profession/Interdisciplinary
Area(s)
Editorships/Journal Reviewer
Experience
*Referee (blind,
pre-publication) manuscript for Brill
Press, Summer 2010.
Referee (double-blind)
the journal Medieval Encounters, Fall
2008.
Committee memberships
Elected
North American Member-at-large and Executive Secretary for ASIMS (American
Society
of
Irish Medieval Studies), Fall 2009.
Organization of conferences,
workshops, panels, symposia
Sessions
Organizer and Chair, “Archaeology of
Borders and Identity,” at 42nd International
Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University,
May 2007.
Respondent, “Medieval
Frontiers: Archeology and Identity,” at 41st International
Congress on
Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 4, 2006.
Sessions
Organizer and Chair, “After
Antiquity: An Organizational Roundtable
for Post-Antique
Archaeology,” at 106th Annual Meeting of
the Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, January 2005.
Sessions Organizer, “The Archaeology of the Medieval Mediterranean,” (2
sessions) at 37th
International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, May 2002.
Sessions
Organizer and Chair, “The Archaeology of
the Medieval Mediterranean,” at 36th
International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, May 2001.
Co-chair, The
Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, Cornell University, February 6, 1999.
Service To The University/College/Department
Collegiate
Service and Intercollegiate Service
Member of External
Committee for Geology Program Review, Morris Campus (Spring 2011).
Member of Executive
Committee of Center for Medieval Studies (2006-2008), TC Campus.
Member of Scholastic
Committee (Spring 2007-present), Morris Campus.
Member of Two
Anthropology Discipline Search Committees (Spring 2007-Spring 2008), Morris
Campus.
Member of National
Scholarship Committee (Fall 2006-present), Morris Campus.
Member of QIC (Fall
2008-present), Morris Campus.
Mock interviewer for UMM Fulbright and other
scholarship applicants (2007-present), Morris
Campus.
Interviewer for the
Community of Scholars day (2006-present), Morris Campus.
Panel member for Studio
Art, Student Reviews (2005-Present).
Department/Unit
Service
Web Master for the Art
History Discipline (2005-present).
Panelist on Studio Art,
Student Reviews (2005-present).
Administrator the Art
History Slide Library (2008-2010).
Public And Other Service
Executive committee Member-at-large (Summer
2009-present) of the Lake Region Arts Council
[LRAC] Board
of Trustees (Vice-Chair, Summer 2008-2009; Board member, 2006-present).
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