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VITA / PERSONAL DATA

Education:
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY
Ph.D Art History, Major Field: Pre-Columbian Minor Field: Arts of Africa,
Oceania and the Americas; Ancient Chinese Art, 1971
Dissertation: The Murals of Tepantitla, Teotihuacan
M.A. Thesis: Varieties of Hieratic Composition in Nigerian and Cameroons Sculpture

BARNARD COLLEGE, New York, NY
B.A. Art History, June, 1965
VASSAR COLLEGE, Poughkeepsie, NY
Undergraduate work, 1961-1963

Languages:
French, German, Hungarian, Spanish

Awards and Honors:
Julian J. Rothbaum Prize, 1997
- Best book published by the University of Oklahoma Press for Teotihuacan, An Experiment in Living.

Medal, the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e História, Mexico, 1986
- Presented on the occasion of the return of the looted Teotihuacan murals to Mexico from the collections of the San Francisco de Young Museum

Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Citation Committee of the College Art Association, 1984
- Special Citation for Aztec Art

Fellowships:
Sainsbury Research Center Visiting Scholars, fall 2001

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1987-1988
American Council of Learned Societies, 1984
Field Work at Teotihuacan.

Mellon Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University, 1980-1982
Senior Fellow.

Council for Research in the Humanities, Columbia University, 1976
Research in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico.

American Philosophical Society
Research in Mexico and Guatemala.
 

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