Laura Wingfield

2015 International Congress of Americanists, San Salvador, El Salvador

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"Greenstone Axe to Gold Eagle Pendant: The Sex Change of Costa Rica's Symbol of National Pride." In Dressing Up: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the pre-Columbian Americas, edited by Billie Follenbee and Sarahh [sic] Scher and published by University Press of Florida. (Under review and due out spring 2015)

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Taught Ancient Mesoamerican Art and Architecture fall 2014

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"Barely There but Still Transcendent: Ancient Nicoyan Dress, Regalia, and Adornment, ca. 800 BCE-300 CE." In Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America, edited by Heather Orr and Matthew Looper. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014.

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2014 Instructor, Art History Department, Emory University

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2012-2014 Collections Services, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

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2013 Cities, Borders and Frontiers, Association for Latin American Art Third Triennial Conference, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.

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2013 Revealing Central America's Past (exhibition and symposium), National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.

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2012 Annual Chacmool Archaeological Association Conference, University of Calgary, Canada

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2012 Editorial Board Member, new online Journal of Central American Art and Archaeology (Geoffrey McCafferty and Carrie Dennett, editors)

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2012 Curatorial Consultant, National Museum of the American Indian, Central America Ceramics Research Project

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2012 Curatorial Consultant, Baltimore Museum of Art, Department of the Arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific Islands

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2012 Dressing Up: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the pre-Columbian Americas Session, Society of American Archaeology Annual Conference, Memphis, Tennessee

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2011 Re-conceptualizing Nicaraguan Prehistory Session, Society of American Archaeology Annual Conference, Sacramento, California

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Research Assistant - 2011, Research and Editorial Assistant - 2002, Curatorial Assistant - 1995

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"Body Art and Greater Nicoyan Identity Through Time." From the proceedings of the 49th Annual Society for American Archaeology Conference, Sacramento, California, 2011. Published online: <>

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2011 Contract Researcher, Department of Art History, Emory University

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2010 Costume and Dress in Formative Period Mesoamerica and the Isthmo-Colombian Region Session, Society of American Archaeology Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri

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2010 Reflections of the Sacred in Pre-Columbian and Colonial Andean Art Session, Society for Amazonian and Andean Studies 2nd Biennial Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

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"Hummingbirds, a Flutter of Color, in a Nasca Mantle Border: A Fragment from a Culture in Need of a Powerful Textile Goddess." From the proceedings of the Society for Amazonian and Andean Studies 2nd Biennial Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2010. (In progress)

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2008 Pan-Caribbean Session, Society of American Archaeology Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada

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2007 The Chibchan Area Specialist Seminar, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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2007 Art History Department, Emory University. Lecture to Department recruits &

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Trained to be an academic advisor Fall 2006 and worked as an advisor Spring 2007 -- helped coordinate new student Orientations, and advised students on class schedules, withdrawals, and incompletes

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"Two Millennia of Nicoyan Effigies: From Shamaness to Shamaness-Chief?" Acta Americana 15: 2 (2007): 31-80.

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2006 Annual Chacmool Archaeological Association Conference, University of Calgary, Canada

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2006 International Congress of Americanists Symposium, Seville, Spain

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2006 Archaeology Department, University of Calgary Travel Grant

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2006 Art History Department, Emory University Travel Grant

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2004 Art History Department, Emory University Dissertation Research Grant

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2002-2003 Jan and Frederick Mayer Foundation Grant

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2003 The University of Arizona's 14th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium "Out of Context," Tucson

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2003 Theory Practice Learning Initiative Mini-Grant, Emory College

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1999-2003 Fellowship with Graduate Assistantship, Art History Department, Emory University

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2002 Art History Department, Emory University Mini-Grant for Pre-Dissertation Research

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Catalogue to the ancient Americas collection written by Dr. Rebecca Stone-Miller, 2002

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2002 U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship

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2000-2001 Vernacular Modernities Fellowship, Emory University

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2001 Emory College Institute for Teaching (ECIT) Computer Training, Emory University

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2001 Art History Department, Emory University Thesis & Pre-Dissertation Research Grant

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2001 University Education Taskforce Member, Carlos Museum, Emory University

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Research and Editorial Assistant - 1999-2000

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2000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation Internship, Carlos Museum

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1999 Research Assistant, Art History Department, Emory University

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Exhibition mini-catalogue written by Dr. Rebecca Stone-Miller and published by the Carlos Museum, 1996

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Guidebook to the Museum's collections published by the Museum, 1996

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Exhibition mini-catalogue published by the Carlos Museum, 1996

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Exhibition catalogue published by Georgia International Cultural Exchange, 1995

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Editorial Assistant: Proofread and edited text copy - 1995

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1991, 1993 Dean's List, Duke University

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Paper: "Body Art and Greater Nicoyan Identity Through Time"

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Funding for courses in Quichua language and culture through Arizona State University's Ecuador Summer Field School (along the Napo River and in the Sierra of Ecuador)

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Assessed and advised on Honduran to Ecuadorian collections

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Worked in the Conservation Lab to remove misleading restorations, old accession numbers, and bronze disease from pre-Columbian ceramics, greenstones, and metals, respectively; cleaned Egyptian coffins

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Coordinated organization of handbook: worked with designer, printer, editor, photographer, and six curators

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20 hour/week fellowship within university administration

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Sponsored the Cross Keys chapter of KAPPA, a girls' service organization

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Regular Education Social Studies Teacher, Cross Keys High School, DeKalb County Schools, Atlanta, Georgia

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The Center of the Americas: Art and Culture of the Northern Andes and Central America. New Haven: Yale University Press. (In progress)

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Art History Department, Emory University Dissertation Research and Short-Term Graduate Assistantship Grant

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Paper: "Barely There but Still Telling: Ancient Nicoyan Dress, Body Decoration, and Jewelry and Possible Roles for All the Sexes, c. 800 BCE-300 CE"

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Funding for a comparative studies field trip to Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon, GA with my Ancient Mesoamerican Art and Architecture class

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Art of the Andes from Chavin to Inca

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Paper: "Trade into, out of, and through Ancient Costa Rica: 'Evidence' from Art, Archaeology, and Geography"

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Included annual travel stipend (see Travel below)

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Funding for Graduate Assistantship to Drs. Rebecca Stone and William Size for Emory undergraduate class of Art and the Environment in Costa Rica 10-day field trip to Costa Rica

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Funding for travel to central and southern Costa Rica to research indigenous cultures and environment

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Taught three courses of Accelerated 9th Grade Social Studies: Economics, Civics, and Geography

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Paper: "The Transformation of the Jade Axe to the Gold Knife-Pendant in Costa Rica--from Gender-Neutral Clearing Tool to Shaman's Fertility Totem to King's Sign of Authority to Costa Rica's Emblem of National Pride?"

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Funding for travel to Washington, D.C. and research of Nicoyan effigies at the National Museums of the American Indian and Natural History at the Smithsonian

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The Paris Salon: Drawings and Sculptures from Atlanta Collections

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Paper: "Ancient Nicoyan Identity across the Nicaraguan/Costa Rican Border"

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Served as assistant coach for the Cross Country team

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"Choluteca to Chorotega: What Really Happened in Greater Nicoya around the 7th Century?"

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Mayer Fellowship for the Study of Pre-Columbian Art, Denver Art Museum

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Tears of the Moon: Ancient American Precious Metals from the Permanent Collection

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Taught two sections of Introduction to Art History II

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Graduate Program Assistant Fellowship, Office for Undergraduate Education, Emory College

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Thames and Hudson World of Art Series First - Third Editions by Dr. Rebecca Stone

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Assessed and advised on Nicaraguan collection

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Paper: "Chibchan Cultural Continuity in Greater Nicoya: A Case Study of Figural Art, c. 800 BCE-1500 CE"

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Research assistant for professors of Medieval art, U.S. art, and art of the ancient Americas

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The Sacred Art of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to Peter the Great

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Lectured on Art of the Ancient Americas for Introduction to Art History I

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Funding for research into the representation of indigenous cultures in the national museums of Costa Rica and an initial examination of ancient Costa Rican and Nicaraguan figural art in the national museums of Costa Rica and Nicaragua

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Aided Dr. Rebecca Stone for her 3rd edition of Art of the Andes (see Publications below)

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Fellowship on-site at the Denver Art Museum with hours split between dissertation research and research on the Museum's collection of ancient Costa Rican and Nicaraguan art

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Taught two courses of 10th Grade World History

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Paper: "Ancient Costa Rican Mace Heads: The Ultimate Weapon for Spiritual Warfare"

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"Born from Earth Grandmother Jaguar: Ancient Nicaraguan and Costa Rican Ceramic Feline Effigies in Light of Bribri Spirituality." (In progress)

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Participated in the AVID program for college preparation as an AVID Teacher

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Assistant in the Visual Resources Library

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Researched for U.S. art professor and Medieval art professor

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Worked with curators to revise style guides for collections and update online collections

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Funding for initial examination of ancient Costa Rican and Nicaraguan figural art in the Jan and Frederick Mayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum

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Paper: "An Approach to the Study of Unprovenienced Objects: Nicoyan Shoe Pots/Womb Urns"

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Seeing with New Eyes: Art of the Ancient Americas Collection of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

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Paper: "Representing the Ancient American Indigenous Past Out of Context: The National Museums of Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica"

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"Response to Rosemary Joyce, John Hoopes, and the Accompanying Exhibition."

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Paper: " Hummingbirds, a Flutter of Color, in a Nasca Mantle Border: A Fragment from a Culture in Need of a Powerful Weaving Goddess"

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Paper: "Female Politico-Religious Leaders in the Chibchan World, Then and Now"

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Represented the graduate school in brainstorming strategies to attract visitors to the Museum

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Supported the assistant director of Learning Programs for EPASS Peer Tutoring -- observed and assessed tutors, and helped revise the tutoring manual

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Included tuition and an academic year stipend for the first four years of graduate school, during which coursework, assistantships (see bullets below and Work Experience above), and written and oral examinations were completed

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Funding to learn the University's new software package "Blackboard," an interactive teaching tool, especially useful in ancient American art history courses where images are crucial for educating and are not often easily accessible in one textbook

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Funding to present at the 52nd International Congress of Americanists, Seville, Spain

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Funding for research of ancient Costa Rican and Nicaraguan figural art, including travel, with a focus on the Jan and Frederick Mayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum

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Funding to present at the 39th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary

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Funding through Phase II of "Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies," a Ford Foundation initiative at Emory University, which provided support for travel to Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica for M.A. research, as well as enrollment in a two-semester Vernacular Modernities seminar

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