Ancient American Art in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Residents

Carol Rodríguez holds a BA in Archaeology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and is currently working on her master’s thesis in Art History and Curatorial Studies at the same university. Prior to joining the MCRW, she worked as curatorial assistant for pre-Columbian art at the Museo de Arte de Lima, graphic design consultant for the World Monuments Fund affiliate in Peru, and graphics coordinator of Historias. Arte y cultura del Perú, an art-focused digital project partially funded by Fundación Telefónica. Currently, she is editorial assistant for the Boletín de Arqueología PUCP, a peer-reviewed archaeology journal based in Lima.

Amanda Suárez Calderón obtained her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2023. She holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of Costa Rica. Her research interests include the emergence of social complexity and hierarchies in Pre-Columbian Central America, warfare, ethnohistory, ceramics and GIS. In addition to directing her dissertation fieldwork, partially funded by a Lewis and Clark grant from the American Philosophical Society, Amanda has participated in fieldwork projects in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Peru. At Pitt, Amanda received a Heinz fellowship for Latin American Archaeology, and she was a teaching fellow at the Department of Anthropology. During the academic year 23-24, Amanda was a research fellow in Pre-Columbian studies at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington DC.