Marit Munson

Associate Professor

 

Office: DNA C218

Lab: DNA C219 Art & Archaeology Lab

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x7503

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Education

BA (Miami, Ohio) MA, PhD (New Mexico)

Profile

Professor Munson recently published the book Kenneth Chapman's Santa Fe: Artists and Archaeologists, 1907-1931 (2007, SAR Press, Santa Fe), which is an edited and annotated version of the memoirs of the noted "art archaeologist."

Her publications on ceramic iconography include “Sex, gender, and status: human images from the Classic Mimbres” in American Antiquity (2000, vol. 65: 127-143), and "Picturing differences: Gender, ritual, and power in Mimbres imagery" (2006, pp85-108 in Mimbres Society, edited by V. Powell-Marti and P. A. Gilman, University of Arizona Press).

Published work on rock art includes "Rock art imagery and the power of place at Las Estrellas, New Mexico” in the Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico (2003, vol. 29: 127-136) and a chapter written for a popular audience, titled "Bringing the rocks to life," published in the book The Peopling of Bandelier: New Insights from the Archaeology of the Pajarito Plateau (2005, edited by R. P. Powers, pp. 55-61. SAR Press, Santa Fe).

Her work on the history of Southwest native art is also reflected in "Creating the Codex Hopiensis: Jesse Walter Fewkes and Hopi artists, 1899-1900" in American Indian Art (2006, vol. 31(4):70-83, 120).