Rock Art in Universities

Professors who regularly use Rock Art in their own work, and who are more than usually supportive to graduate students who wish to pursue studies in Rock Art. For a list of Dissertations on Rock Art, please click here.

Arizona

Arizona State University, Tucson, AZ

Deer Valley Rock Art Center

courses; a field program with Todd Bostwick, AZ State Archaeologist

Northern Arizona University and Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ

Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Assoc. Prof.

Arkansas

University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR

Reinaldo Morales Jr., Assistant Prof. of Art History

“rock art is a vital component in several courses I teach”

California

University of California, Berkeley, CA

Georgia

Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA

Denise Smith, Ph.D. Course in World Rock Art

One graduate student is completing thesis on Australian rock art, but not pursuing rock art as career path

Missouri

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Carol Diaz-Granadoz first third of course “American Indian Art and Iconography” is solely on Rock Art

New Mexico

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

Lawrence Loendorf, Prof. (retired; helps students with fieldwork and thesis projects)

University of New Mexico

supporting rock art work and a PhD in recent years

Oregon

University of Oregon,

Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, Kerns Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Art History, Eugene OR 97403

She writes that she now teaches almost only courses related to rock art.

Virginia

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

James Farmer, Assoc. Prof., Art History,

Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Andrea Stone, Art History

Other Countries (to be extended in the future) Durham University, England