PROFESSOR
ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY MINOR COORDINATOR
Office Location: Business and Liberal Arts Center, Room B649
Phone: 212 217.4646
E-mail: [email protected]
Education
BA, Williams College
PhD, Yale University
Grants
American Philosophical Society
Josef Albers Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks, Fulbright, Ford Foundation, SUNY Research
Grants
Selected Publications and Digital Media
"Ancient Architecture in the Mississippi Valley: Monumentality Seen and Unseen (.pdf)," in RES Anthropology and Aesthetics. Illinois, Vol. 69-70, Spring-Autumn 2018, pp. 294-309.
The Archaic Bannerstone Project, launched in 2018
Bannerstone Research and Images featured in "Archaeology (.pdf)" July/August 2017
"Fluidity of Referents: Maya Appropriations and Adornments" a paper presented for Native/American Fashion: Inspiration, Appropriation, and Cultural
Identity, NMAI NYC 4/22/2017
"Maya Time (.pdf)," in Art in America. September 2012
"Maya Concepts of Zero (.pdf)," in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia, Vol. 155, No. 1, March 2011, pp. 51-88. Maya Zero essay 2011
Flesh to Flesh (.pdf): Interview on ACT UP Political Funerals in Trigger 93 17-30, 2011
ACT UP Oral History Project, Interview Number 109, Interview by Sarah Schulman, January 2010
ACT UP Oral History Project, Interview Number 109 (.pdf), Interview by Sarah Schulman, January 2010
"Dialectics of Conversion: Las Casas and Maya Colonial and Post Colonial Congregacin (.pdf)," in Religion and Secular: Historical and Colonial Formations. Edited by Timothy Fitzgerald, 24-45. London: Equinox, 2007
Rollout: Interview with Photographer Justin Kerr on his Work with Ancient Maya Pots
"Animal Transformations: The Mixing of Maya and European Fantasy and Belief (.pdf)," in A Pre Columbian World. Edited by Mary Miller and Jeffrey Quilter, 242-261. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2006
"Mesh: Tale of the Hermaphrodite (.pdf)," LTTR 4, Printed Matter, New York September 2005
Grand Central Station Action: No Bush Lies Wars Banner, August, 2004
"Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya. A review of the Maya Exhibition at the National Gallery
of Art, Washington DC (.pdf)." Art in America, December, 2004
"The Cause Was Hatred," in New York Times Editorial Letters, 9/13/2001
"On Sadness (.pdf)." [Essay for an exhibition of works by Siobhan Liddell], UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, 2000
"Secession: Zoe Leonard," Zoe Leonard - Anna Blume Interview for Exhibition Catalog Vienna, Austria 1997
Afterlife of Images: Text (.pdf)
Volume I: 1997 PhD Dissertation in the History of Art, Yale University
Afterlife of Images: Images (.pdf)
Volume II: 1997 PhD Dissertation in the History of Art, Yale University
"In the Wake of Production: a study of Peter Bruegel'sLandscape with the Fall of Icarus (.pdf)," in Essays in Honor of Donald Gifford. Edited by Donald E. Morse. New York: Lang Publishing, 1995
"Ways Through Amnesia: Photographs and Native American History (.pdf)," in Print Collectors Newsletter, July 1995.
Courses
- HA 216 – American Indian Art and Civilization
- HA 224 – Pre-Columbian Art and Civilization
- HA 225 – Art and Civilization of India
- HA 395 – Studies in American Indian Art and Culture
- HA 397 – Studies in Maya Art and Culture
- HA 462 – Art and Ethics