Elizabeth Hill Boone

Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana ~Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art; Professor, History of Art. Shaped the field of pre-Columbian studies in the United States. As Director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (1980-1995), expanded the scholarly program, making it the premier center for research in Pre-Columbian archaeology and art history. Organized exhibition of Aztec art at the National Gallery of Art and symposium and companion volume that helped transform Aztec studies. Recognized for groundbreaking studies of pictorial systems of writing, particularly those of Aztec and early colonial Mexico. Author of five monographs and editor or co-editor of thirteen books whose insights have had impact not only in the area of Aztec art but also in the study of non-alphabetic systems of recording knowledge. Work has influenced the perspectives of art historians, anthropologists, historians, and literary theorists. Served as President of the American Society for Ethnohistory and has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies and the National Gallery of Art. Named Andrew Mellon Professor at the National Gallery of Art, the only Latin Americanist so distinguished. Corresponding member of Academia Mexicana de la Historia and recipient of the government of Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle for her contributions to Aztec scholarship.~