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Ada's research has focused on the era of Alexander the Great and the impact of Alexander's imagery. She has also worked on topics in Near Eastern and prehistoric art; sexuality and the construction of pictorial identity; travel and landscape; as well as the depiction of childhood and the family in ancient art. Her current book project is titled The Judgment of Female Beauty in Ancient Greek Art .
In addition to her lecture courses, Ada Cohen teaches First-Year and advanced seminars and regularly teaches the Senior Culminating Seminar on theory and method in Art History. Periodically she directs the Art History Department's Foreign Study Program in Rome.
"Turning Heads: Alexander and the Animals," Illinois Classical Studies 43:1 (2018): 88-136
"The Artist as Art Historian: Some Modern Works on Alexander," in K.R. Moore, ed., Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018), 754-74
"What Is Art History?" in Daniel Rockmore, ed., What Are the Arts and Sciences? [A Guide for the Curious] (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2017), 27-45
Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace: Looking at Austen Henry Layard's Reconstruction (University Press of New England and Hood Museum of Art, 2017) with Steven Kangas
"Picturing Greek Families," in B. Rawson, ed., A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 465-87
Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and Their Cultural Traditions (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010; Paperback 2014)
Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2010), ed. with S. E. Kangas
"'Mistress' Bronzes from the Classical World," in A. Brauer, ed., Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gordon Mitten (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 2010), 76-91
"The Self as Other: Performing Humor in Ancient Greek Art," in Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean , E. S. Gruen (ed.), (2011) 465-90.
"Mythic Landscapes of Greece," in R. Woodard, ed., Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 305-30
"Gendering the Age Gap: Boys, Girls, and Abduction in Ancient Greek Art," in A. Cohen and J. B. Rutter eds., Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Hesperia Supplement 41, Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007), 257-78
Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Hesperia Supplement 41, Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007), ed. with J. B. Rutter
"Introduction: Childhood between Past and Present," in A. Cohen and J. B. Rutter eds., Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Hesperia Supplement 41, Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007), 1-22
"Landscape and Figure in Ancient Greek Art" (in Greek) in P. Doukellis, ed., The Greek Landscape (Athens: HESTIA, 2005), 105-129
"Art, Myth, and Travel in the Hellenistic World," in S. E. Alcock, J. Cherry, and J. Elsner, eds., Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 93-126
The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997; Paperback 2000)