Bridget Sandhoff is an Assistant Teaching Professor of art history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  She recently graduated from The University of Iowa (2007) with her Ph.D. in ancient art history.  She specializes in the art of the Etruscans as well as Egypt, cultures of the Aegean, Greece and Rome.  Her research interests include gender issues (androgyny, role of women in ancient societies, sexuality and nudity), aesthetics/beauty in Etruria and Rome, ancient sport, mythology and antiquity in popular culture.  Her secondary interest is medieval art particularly the cult of the saints and Gothic architecture.  She teaches the survey of western art, ancient art and western medieval art courses in the art history department.  She has taught previously at The University of Iowa (Iowa City) and Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois).  She is currently participating in the New Faculty Teaching Scholars program offered through the University of Missouri system for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Professor Sandhoff is a former visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome (2005) and also participated in an NEH seminar (Identity and Self-Representation in the Subcultures of Ancient Rome) in the summer of 2008.  She has presented papers at various conferences in the United States and Europe including the College Art Association’s annual conference (Dallas, 2008).  She is currently working on an article that explores the relationship between men and women in Praenestine-Etruscan society, as it is expressed on Praenestine cistae (toiletries boxes).

Contact Information:
Bridget Sandhoff
Assistant Teaching Professor, Art and Art History
507 Lucas Hall
314.516.5670
sandhoffb@umsl.edu