Dr. Julia C. Fischer is an Associate Professor of Art History. Dr. Fischer received a B.A. Classics from Loyola University Chicago, an M.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. She is a specialist in Roman imperial cameos, relief sculpture, and iconography. Her latest book, Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire, investigates the five remaining large cameos from the Augustan and Julio-Claudian periods. Power and Propaganda was published in April 2024 by Routledge, one of the world's leading academic publishers.

Dr. Fischer teaches survey art history and art appreciation courses along with upper-level art history courses in ancient art, Renaissance art, Asian art, and art crime. She received the prestigious Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award at Lamar University in 2016.

Dr. Fischer is also the author of the art appreciation textbook, How to Speak Art: Understanding Its Language, Issues, and Themes; the second edition active learning eTextbook was released in January 2021. She is also the author of Art and Rome: Antiquity to the Present, a textbook for an onsite course for students studying abroad in Rome. Dr. Fischer has also published peer-reviewed articles, including “The Monuments Men in Japan” and “Raiders of the Lost Art: The Monuments Men and Their Legacy.”