VITA / PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / AFFILIATIONS / SERVICE
1980-PRESENT

Ancient Mesoamerica
Member of the Board

The Art Bulletin
Former member, Advisory Committee (served multi-year term)

Dumbarton Oaks Institute and Museum, Washington, D.C.
Senior Fellow on the Board, 1986-1992 term

U.S. National Committee for the History of Art
Member, 1984-Present

University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Columbia University.
Chair and Organizer, 1971-Present.

Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University
Chairman, 1990-92, 1994-96

West by Nonwest. Symposium at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Associated with special issue of RES, 2002.
Chairman and organizer.

“Art and Identities in the Americas” Symposium, Columbia University, Nov. 20, 1993
Chairman and organizer.

“Teotihuacan: City of the Gods” Exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1993.
Wrote the script for an educational film and publicity programs.

“Mysterious City of the Gods: Teotihuacan” and “Goddesses of the Western Hemisphere: Women and Power” symposia, June 12, 1993 and Sept. 26, 1993. Both in association with the exhibition “Teotihuacan: City of the Gods.”
Co-Chairman, Organizer (with Dr. Kathleen Berrin).

“New Approaches to the Study of Style and Aesthetics in Mesoamerican Art” College Art Association Meeting, Feb. 15, 1985.
Chairman and organizer.

“Douglas Fraser Memorial Symposium on Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art” Columbia University , April 15-16, 1983.
Chairman and organizer.

“Art and the Growth of the Teotihuacan State” Symposium at the University of California, Los Angeles, Mar. 5, 1983.
Co-organizer (with Dr. Cecelia Klein).

“Maya Hieroglyphic Writing Workshop” Katheryn Josserand, University of Florida, 1998, Peter Mathews, Harvard University, 1982.

“Mesoamerican Figurines: Their Archaeological Contexts and iconographic Meanings” Symposium. Columbia University, April 25, 1981.
Chairman and organizer.

“Problems in the Iconography of Postclassic Mesoamerican Art” Symposium at the XLIII International Congress of Americanists, Vancouver, Canada, August 11-17, 1979.
Chairman and organizer.

Consultant on Teotihuacan murals at the De Young Museum, San Francisco, 1978-1990.

“Aztec Stone Sculpture” Exhibition at the Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, December 8, 1976- January 30, 1977.
This show was organized and the catalogue was written by my students in a graduate seminar.

“The Middle Classic Period in Mesoamerica” Symposium at
Columbia University, April 14, 1973.
Chairman and organizer.


 

ESTHER PASZTORY
Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor
in Pre-Columbian Art History
and Archaeology

Department of Art History
and Archaeology
814 Schermerhorn Hall

Columbia University
in the City of New York

ep9@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5681