John Pollini is Professor of Classical Art & Archaeology in the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California, where he has also served as Chair of the Department of Art History and Dean of the School of Fine Arts. In 2000, he was elected a member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

Besides writing numerous articles, he has published several books: The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar (1987); Roman Portraiture: Images of Character and Virtue (1990); Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization: The Cobannus Hoard (2002); and The de Nion Head: A Masterpiece of Greek Archaic Sculpture (2003). His is also editor of and contributor to a recent Festschrift, Terra Marique: Studies in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann on the Receipt of the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America (forthcoming 2005). In addition, he is currently revising a book manuscript entitled Christian Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical Antiquity and working on two other books: 1) The Rhetoric and Poetry of Visual Imagery and the Creation of Dynastic Narratives in Augustan Art and Thought and 2) The Image of Augustus: Art, Ideology, and the Rhetoric of Leadership.

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