Dissertations

Ancient / Late Antique

Elizabeth Caris

Cultural Convergence: Moche-Wari Style Textiles and Ceramics as Tinku

Advisers: Rebecca Stone and Megan O'Neil
  • In progress
  • Emory University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#Material Culture

Louise Deglin

Repetition, Recreation, Reinvention: Wari Artists and the Empire

Adviser: Stella Nair
  • In progress
  • UCLA

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#Material Culture

Anabelle Rodriguez

Curating Xunantunich: Conserving Ancient Maya Art and Architecture & Preserving Natural Heritage in an Urban Cultural Landscape of Western Central Belize

Adviser: Sarah Brett-Smith
  • In progress
  • Rutgers University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#History of Collecting

Elena Pasionaria Rodríguez Pazmiño

Iconographie et iconicité dans les sceaux de l’Équateur précolombien

Advisers: Louise Vigneault and Christina Halperin
  • In progress
  • Université de Montréal

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas

Andrea Vázquez de Arthur

Portraits, Pots, or Power Objects? On the Imagery and Ontology of Wari Faceneck Vessels

Adviser: Esther Pasztory
  • In progress
  • Columbia University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas

James Terry

Signifying Architecture: Maya Architecture of Chicanna and the Central Yucatan

Adviser: Mary Miller
  • In progress
  • Yale University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#Architecture

Alba Menéndez Pereda

Making and Experiencing Inca Sacredness: The Architecture of the Coricancha from the Inca Empire to the Viceroyalty of Peru

Adviser: Stella Nair
  • In progress
  • University of California, Los Angeles

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#Architecture#Archaeology#Religion#Material Culture#South American

Stephanie Strauss

Sculpting the Narrative: The Material Practice of Epi-Olmec Art and Writing

Advisers: Julia Guernsey and David Stuart
  • 2018
  • University of Texas

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas

William Gassaway

Extraordinary Bodies: The Art of Deformation in Postclassic Mexico

Adviser: Esther Pasztory
  • 2019
  • Columbia University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas

Patricia Lagarde

Facing Pilgrimage: Tenon Head Sculptures at the Ceremonial Center of Chavín de Huántar, Peru

Adviser: Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • 2022
  • Tulane University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Archaeology#Ancient Americas