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Candace Weddle Livingston
The South Carolina School of the Arts
The South Carolina School of the Arts
Associate Professor of Art History
clivingston@andersonuniversity.edu
(864) 622-6039
Rainey Fine Arts Center
Academic Background
An art historian and archaeologist, Dr. Livingston has excavated at sites ranging from the Copper Age to the Byzantine period in Turkey, Romania, and Italy. She often spends summers lecturing on cruise ships, most recently as a Resident Historian for Viking Cruise Lines, and has also served as a lecturer for the Smithsonian Journeys program and the Archaeological Institute of America. She lives in Greenville with her husband Todd and too many cats.
BA in Classics, Baylor University
MA in Art History, Tulane University
Ph.D in Art History, University of Southern California
Fast Facts
My experience as an undergraduate at a Baptist institution, Baylor, was tremendously influential on my decision to teach at another Baptist university. The education I received was intellectually rigorous but the environment was supportive, and I hope I am successful in fostering a similar environment in my own classrooms.
My 2013 article “The Sensory Experience of Blood Sacrifice in the Roman Imperial Cult,” is widely cited in my field and assigned in courses at a number of universities in the US and abroad. In 2025, I was selected as a team archaeologist for the Roy Chapman Andrews Legacy Expedition. In summer 2005, the international team of 38 will explore the Gobi Desert in Mongolia by camel caravan, conducting research in the archaeology, anthropology, biology, paleontology, and topography of the region. In 2018, I was named a Fellow in The Explorers Club, a prestigious international organization “dedicated to the advancement of field exploration and scientific inquiry” I appeared as an on-camera expert in the 2015 PBS documentary series “Ancient Roads: From Christ to Constantine” In 2009, I excavated as an invited member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute’s team at the important Greco-Roman site of Ephesus, in modern Turkey
The small class sizes mean I get to know each of my students individually and that our conversations about course material and their educational experience often continue outside the classroom.
Greek and Roman art and architecture, Roman religion, Early Christian and Medieval art and architecture
In Press: “The Mistress of the Beasts and Her Humpbacked Bulls: New Considerations About the Breeding of Sacrificial Animals and Roman Trade with India,” In Why Objects Matter: Studies in Greek and Roman Art and Materiality, ed. N. Cipolla, A. LaGatta, C. Livingston, P. Schertz, A. Spinelli, and S. Yeomans (De Gruyter 2025). In Press: Co-edited with N. Cipolla, A. LaGatta, P. Schertz, and S. Yeomans: Why Objects Matter: Studies in Greek and Roman Art and Materiality (De Gruyter 2025). “Imperial Cult, Roman.” Springer Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Classical Archaeology Section, ed. J.A. Becker and A. Barclay. (Springer-Verlag 2018, 2nd ed.) “Salvage Excavation of the Etruscan Tombs” Chapter in the 2017 Field Report of the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project, in Fasti Online (2017). “Blood, Fire and Feasting: The Role of Touch and Taste in Graeco-Roman Sacrifice” In Senses of the Empire, ed. E.M. Betts. (Routledge 2017). “The Sensory Experience of Blood Sacrifice in the Roman Imperial Cult” In Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology. Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper No. 40, ed. J. Day. (Southern Illinois University Press 2013). With Richard Irvine and Nick Hanks: “Sacred Architecture: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives” In Archaeology and Anthropology: Past, Present and Future, ed. D. Shankland. (Berg 2013).
