List of Universities with courses related to Pre-Columbian Studies (not in any kind of order!) Note: many universities have now WWW pages listing the activities of their various departments and faculties. Such universities will not be listed in a rigorous fashion, since links to their WWW sites will be provided on the Pre-columbian link page on this site. I assume that those people with internet access have now also access to the WWW using Netscape or Mosaic, so that a separate full maintenance of this file just for ftp is not necessary anymore. ______________________ Dept. of Anthropology University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 (913) 864-4103 - voice (913) 864-5224 - fax Questions can be directed to me at: John Hoopes jhoopes@cariari.ucr.ac.cr (until Feb. 1) or hoopes@falcon.cc.ukans.edu (after Feb. 1) or to my colleague Jack Hofman at: hofman@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu We offer both M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology, with special emphases in Paleoindian and Central American studies. If you want to know more, just drop me a line. Thanks! __________________ Essex University (U.K.) offers a masters course in Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture, not exactly archaeology but it might be of interest, and we also supervise Ph.D. research students. In addition there are graduate courses in colonial period, and modern Latin American art and architecture. Courses in all of these are also available at undergraduate level as part of the B.A. degree in Art History. Any enquiries to the department secretary at the address below, or by email to me. Tim Laughton Dept. of Art History, University of Essex, Colchester, U.K. Phone 01206 873009 Fax 01206 873003 laugt@essex.ac.uk ---------- Tulane University ---------- University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Dept. of Anthropology on WWW site: http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/anthro/ ---------- Vanderbilt University Nashville ---------- University of Texas, Austin info on WWW site: http://wwwhost.cc.utexas.edu/dept/ ---------- Texas A&M ---------- UCLA University of California, Los Angeles (Richard Leventhal) ---------- University of California, Berkeley ---------- Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts (starting up again, with Bill Fash, and Dave Stuart) ---------- The Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia offers the BA, BFA, MA, and PHD in Art History, including areas of specialization in Pre-Columbian, Native American, Colonial and Modern Latin America. Specialized tracks in each area may focus on either the history of art or architecture, and related fields in Museum studies. The department currently carries 10 full-time faculty members, including Dr. James Farmer, specialist in Pre-Columbian and Native American art, and Dr. Richard Phillips, specialist in Colonial and Modern Latin America. Dr. James Farmer Department of Art History Virginia Commonwealth University PO BOX 843046 Richmond, VA 23284-3046 jfarmer@cabell.vcu.edu --------------------- University of Calgary Dept. of Archaeology Alberta, Canada http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/SS/ARKY/research.html ---------------------- I would suggest that students interested in Mesoamerican archaeology look for programs that have: - high quality faculty (as measured by grants and publications) - active programs of archaeological fieldwork in Mesoamerica - active programs in Mesoamerican ethnology, linguistics, epigraphy, ethnohistory, art history, etc., if these are also of interest - strengths in non-Mesoamerican areas and topics that relate to the student's interest (method and theory; comparative cultures) - theoretical/methodological strengths that match the student's - individual faculty with research interests that match the student's The best place to look is the American Anthropological Association's Guide to Departments of Anthropology (every anthro department probably has a copy). Some departments have web sites, but don't limit consideration to these. I can't resist advertising the SUNY-Albany program. We have a greater number of full-time Mesoamericanist faculty than any other anthropology department in the U.S., and we have top Mesoamericanist faculty in all of the anthropological subdisciplines. For more info, visit: http://www.albany.edu/anthro/ Michael E. Smith, Professor Department of Anthropology University at Albany, SUNY Albany, NY 12222 Home Page: http://www.albany/edu/~mesmith/ tel: 518-442-4709 fax: 518-442-5710 _______________________ if you have information to fill in some of the gaps (actual textual information for inclusion, or a www link to your program at your university), please send an email. burglin@ubaclu.unibas.ch -----------