Ancient American Art in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Residents

Carol Rodriguez is the Lurie Fund Resident for the Arts of the Ancient Americas. Prior to joining MCRW, where she is involved in preparing academic events and activities related to the reopening of the galleries, she worked as curatorial assistant for Pre-Columbian art at the Museo de Arte de Lima on exhibitions such as Nasca, which was shown in Lima, Bonn, and Madrid (2017-2019). She holds a BA in archaeology from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and is working on her MA thesis in Art History and Curatorial Studies at the same university. She is also an editorial assistant for the Boletin de Arqueologia 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.