Name Esther Pasztory | ||
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Education Columbia University (1971), Vassar College Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Thinking with Things, Aztec Art, Teotihuacan: An Experime, Jean‑Frederic Waldeck: Artist of E, The iconography of the Teo | ||
Esther Pasztory is a professor of Pre-Columbian art history at Columbia University. Since 1997 she has held the Lisa and Bernard Selz Chair in Art History and Archaeology. Among her many publications are the first art historical manuscripts on Teotihuacan and the Aztecs. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987–88) and a senior fellow of the board of Dumbarton Oaks.
Biography and Education
Pasztory was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States in 1956 after the anti-Communist revolutions. She was initially educated at Vassar College but later transferred to Barnard College where she received her B.A. in art history in 1965. She remained at Columbia University and received her Ph.D. from the institution in 1971 for a dissertation entitled "The Murals of Tepantitla, Teotihuacan".