Winter (born 1940 in New York City[1]) is an American art historian who is an influential and pioneering scholar of ancient Near Eastern art.
[2] BA Barnard College, Anthropology, 1960; MA University of Chicago, Near Eastern Studies, 1967; PhD Columbia University, Art History and Archaeology.
She has taught at Queens College, CUNY, 1971-1976, The University of Pennsylvania, 1976-1988, and Harvard University since 1988, chairing the department of Fine Arts from 1993-1996, and served on the Faculty Council, 2006-2009; retired June 2009.
Slade Professor, University of Cambridge, 1997.
[3] She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and the American Philosophical Society in 2016.