School of Art Speaker Series - Dr. Julia Guernsey
Dr.
Julia
Guernsey
is
the
D.J.
Sibley
Family
Centennial
Faculty
Fellow
in
Prehistoric
Art
in
the
Department
of
Art
and
Art
History
at
the
University
of
Texas
at
Austin.
Her
research
and
publications
focus
on
the
Middle
and
Late
Preclassic
periods
(1000
BC
to
250
AD)
in
ancient
Mesoamerica.
Her
most
recent
book,
Human
Figuration
and
Fragmentation
in
Preclassic
Mesoamerica:
From
Figurines
to
Sculpture
(Cambridge
University
Press,
2021),
examines
the
relationships
between
human
figuration,
fragmentation,
bodily
divisibility,
personhood,
and
community
in
ancient
Mesoamerica.
Her
previous
books
include
Sculpture
and
Social
Dynamics
in
Preclassic
Mesoamerica
(Cambridge
University
Press,
2012)
and
Ritual
and
Power
in
Stone:
The
Performance
of
Rulership
in
Mesoamerican
Izapan
Style
Art
(University
of
Texas
Press,
2006),
and
her
co-edited
volumes
include
The
Place
of
Stone
Monuments:
Context,
Use,
and
Meaning
in
Mesoamerica’s
Preclassic
Transition
(Dumbarton
Oaks,
2010),
Sacred
Bundles:
Ritual
Acts
of
Wrapping
and
Binding
in
Mesoamerica
(Boundary
End,
2006)
with
a
third,
Early
Mesoamerican
Cities:
Urbanism
and
Urbanization
in
the
Formative
Period
(Cambridge
University
Press)
due
out
at
the
end
of
2021.
Guernsey
also
continues
to
participate
with
ongoing
analysis
of
materials
from
archaeological
excavations
at
the
site
of
La
Blanca,
Guatemala.
