Susanne Ebbinghaus is the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head of the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral dissertation traces the spread of a specific form of drinking vessel, the rhyton with animal forepart, in the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Dr. Ebbinghaus’s research focuses on the art and archaeology of ancient Greece and the Near East, with special interests in the material culture of feasting and cross-cultural interaction between east and west. At the Harvard Art Museums, she organized Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity (2007), an exhibition that explored the original coloration of ancient sculpture, and worked on the installation of the collections galleries for the museums’ 2014 reopening. She edited Superficial? Approaches to Painted Sculpture, a special issue of Source: Notes in the History of Art (2011), and Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens (2014), a collection of essays on the scientific and art historical study of ancient bronzes. She has taught courses in Classics and History of Art, and is engaged in the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in Turkey. At Bard Graduate Center, Ebbinghaus will carry out research for the exhibition Drinking with Gods, Heroes, and Kings: Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World, investigating the rich realm of ideas expressed at feasts and the complex cultural exchanges that connected east and west in antiquity.