Carol C. Mattusch is the Mathay Professor of Art History at George Mason University.
She has undertaken a detailed study on the bronze statues from the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum.
She curated The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections (1996-7) at the Harvard University Art Museums, which exhibited 50 large Greek and Roman bronzes.
[6] She won the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award (2006) from the College Art Association for The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum[7] and the James R. Wiseman Book Award (1997) from the Archaeological Institute of America for Classical Bronzes.
[8][9] Mattusch was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2009[10] and is a corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.