Rebecca Rollins Stone, Ph.D

Rebecca Rollins Stone, Ph.D., Masse-Martin Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Associate Professor in the Art History Department, and Faculty Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas in the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University, received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1987. Her promotion to full professor will be finalized in early 2012. She has published To Weave for the Sun: Andean Textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1994), Art of the Andes from Chavín to Inca (1996, 2002, 3rd edition forthcoming 2012), Seeing with New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (2002), and The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (2011). Her primary research interests are the fiber arts, shamanism, museology, and Andean and Costa Rican art. She curates a collection of over 2,500 objects from Mesoamerica, Central and South America.