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Curriculum Vitae |
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Curriculum Vitae |
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| Reinaldo Morales Jr. | ||
Assistant Professor of Art History |
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Education: |
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| Ph.D. | 2002 | Virginia
Commonwealth University |
| * | 1998 | Virginia
Commonwealth University
Master's Thesis (*defended as part of Ph.D. track): "Nordeste Paintings: The Case for a Pan-Archaic American Aesthetic." |
| B.A. | 1995 | Christopher
Newport University
Major: Fine Arts (painting); Minor: Philosophy |
Professional Experience: |
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| 2004-present | Assistant
Professor of Art History |
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| Courses: Art Appreciation; Survey of Western Art: Prehistoric through Medieval; Arts of Africa; Ancient Mesoamerican Art; Ancient South American Art; Florentine Renaissance (Study Abroad in Florence, Italy); Senior Seminar in Contemporary Theory and Criticism | ||
| 2003-2004 | Visiting
Professor of Art History Department of Art, Clarion University of Pennsylvania |
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| 2003 Summer | Adjunct
Instructor of
Art History Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University |
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| 2002-2003 | Adjunct
Instructor of
Art History Department of Art, Christopher Newport University |
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| 2002 Summer | Adjunct
Instructor of
Art History Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University |
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| 2000 Spring | Adjunct Instructor of Art History Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University |
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| 1999-2000 | Production
Photographer and Poster/Program Designer Barksdale Theatre, Theatre Gym, Firehouse Theatre, Richmond, Virginia |
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| 1995 | Photographer, Summer Intern The Daily Press, daily newspaper, Newport News, Virginia |
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| 1994-1995 | Photography
Editor The Captain's Log, student newspaper, Christopher Newport University |
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| 1987-1994 | Survey
Party Chief The Sirine Group, Ltd., Surveyors, Engineers, Planners, White Marsh, Virginia |
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| 1978-1985 | Photographer, Stringer Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal, weekly newspaper, Gloucester County, Virginia |
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Publications: |
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Morales, Reinaldo, Jr. "The Angelim Style and Northeast Brazilian Rock Art ." In Making Marks: Graduate Studies in Rock Art Research at the New Millennium, edited by Jennifer K. K. Huang and Elisabeth V. Culley, 27-39. Tucson AZ: American Rock Art Research Association, 2005. _____. "Art and Rock Art: Clarifying the Misconceptions" Utah Rock Art 20 (2002): 49-62. _____. "Considerations on the Art and Aesthetics of Rock Art." In Aesthetics and Rock Art, edited by Thomas Heyd and John Clegg, 61-74. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2005. _____. "Masked Rites and Rock Art: Presenting the Past in Indigenous Brazilian Art." In New Scholars/New Ideas 2003-2004. Compiled by James Farmer, Timothy Andrus and Michael Schreffler. Vols 9 and 10. Richmond, VA: VCU Arts, Department of Art History, 2005. Morales, Reinaldo, Jr., and Claudia Cunha. "Chapada Diamantina Rock Art: New Evidence of Nordeste Tradition Rock Art in Bahia, Brazil." American Indian Rock Art, 30 (2004): 137-148. Morales, Reinaldo, Jr., and Melisa Quesenberry. "A Niche in Time: JD-5, Caribbean Cave Art, and the Fourth Dimension." American Indian Rock Art, 31 (2005): 34-56. |
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Grants/Awards: |
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| 2006 | University Research Council, Faculty Research Grant (#130062): "Modified Speleothems of the Greater Antilles: Cuba and Jamaica." | |
| 2004 | University Research Council, Faculty Research Grant (#212233): "Oldest Art in the Americas? Stylistic Analysis of Radiocarbon-Dated Brazilian Rock Paintings." | |
| 2004 | Oliver Rock Art Photography Award, American Rock Art Research Association, Tucson, AZ | |
| 2003 | Castleton Award for excellence in rock art research, American Rock Art Research Association, Tucson, AZ | |
| 2001-2002 | Dean's Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts | |
| 1999-2001 | Stephen J. Wright Commonwealth Graduate Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Graduate Studies | |
| 1995 | President's Cup Student Leadership Award, Christopher Newport University | |
| 1995 | First Place, Feature Photography, Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award, Region 2 (Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington DC) | |
| 1995 | Fine Arts Society Award, The Doctor, graphite on paper, Currents Literary and Arts Magazine juried competition | |
| 1992 | Honorable Mention, Cradle III: The Id, oil on canvas, Genesis: 1992 College Student Juried Exhibition, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia | |
Guest Lectures: |
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| 2007 | Keynote Address, Utah Rock Art Research Association Annual Symposium, Grand Center, Moab, Utah. Title of lecture: "Passion, Propaganda and Posterity in American Rock Art." | |
| 2006 | Philosophy and Religion Club Interdepartmental Seminar, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas. Title of lecture: "To See or Not to See, or Shut Up and Play Yer Cigar." | |
| 2005 | Arkansas Archaeological Society, Toltec Chapter, Little Rock, Arkansas. Paper: "Dating Rock Art in Brazil." | |
| 2005 | College of Fine Arts and Communication, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas. Title of lecture: "Looking to Learn and Learning to Look." | |
| 2004 | Centro Cultural Sergio Mota, Fundação Museu do Homem Americano, São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí, Brazil. Title of lecture: "Ver as Coisas. Abstracionismo, Naturalismo e a Interpretação na Arte Rupestre das Americas." | |
| 2004 | Keynote Address, Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology 75th Annual Meeting, Clarion, Pennsylvania. Title of lecture: "Re-present-ing the Past: Brazilian Rock Art in Context." |
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| 2003 | Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, Pennsylvania. Title of lecture: "Art of the Ancestors: An Introduction to the Rock Art of the Americas." | |
| 2003 | Castleton Award Lecture, American Rock Art Research Association Annual Meeting, San Bernardino, California. Title of lecture: "Nordeste Rock Art and the Ekwimyatipa." | |
| 2002 | Keynote Address, West Virginia Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, Charleston, West Virginia. Title of Lecture: "The American Anthropomorph: Ancestors and Allegories." | |
| 2000 | Partners of the Americas, Charlottesville, Virginia. Title of Lecture: "Arte Indígena no Brasil: Invenção e Tradição." | |
| 2000 | Universidade Federal da Bahia, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Title of Lecture: "Pinturas Pré-Históricas do Nordeste: Tradição e Inovação nas Américas." | |
| 2000 | Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia. Title of Lecture: "Prehistoric Rock Art of Brazil." | |
| 1999 | Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. Title of Lecture: "Arte Rupestre do Nordeste do Brasil / Rock Art of Northeast Brazil." | |
| 1999 | West Virginia Archeological Society, Huntington Chapter, Huntington, West Virginia. Title of Lecture: "A Comparison of Southwestern and Brazilian Pictograph Styles." | |
Chaired Conference Sessions: |
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| 2007 | Co-chair with Denise Smith, Southeastern College Art Conference, Charleston, West
Virginia. |
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| 2006 | Co-chair with Denise Smith, Southeastern College Art Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. Session: "Rock Art II: The Prehistoric Image and Art History." |
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| 2005 | Chair, Southeastern College Art Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas. Session: " Rock Art: The Prehistoric Image and Art History." |
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| 2000 | Chair, International Rock Art Congress, Alice Springs, Australia. Session: "Current Student Research: The Future of Rock Art Studies." |
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Conference Papers Delivered: |
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| 2007 | Southeastern College Art Conference, Charleston, West Virginia. Paper: "Man Art: Warrior Display Iconography in Ancient South America." | |
| 2007 | XXII Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Kingston, Jamaica. Paper: "Modified Speleothems and Caribbean Rock Art." | |
| 2007 | Eastern States Rock Art Conference, Eastern States Rock Art Research Association, Morrilton, Arkansas. Paper: "Antillean Cave Art and the Mesoamerican Mainland." | |
| 2006 | San Diego Museum of Man 32nd Annual Rock Art Symposium, San Diego, California. Paper: "Beyond the Literal: Interpreting Northeast Brazilian Rock Art." | |
| 2006 | Southeastern College Art Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. Paper: "Everyone's a Critic? Theory, Discourse and Rock Art." | |
| 2006 | Society for American Archaeology 71st Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Paper: "Archaic Art, Living Art, and the Interpretive Gap: A View from Brazil." | |
| 2006 | Society for American Archaeology 71st Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Paper: "From Cacibajagua to Chicomoztoc: The Cave Art Connection," co-authored with Melisa A. Quesenberry. | |
| 2005 | San Diego Museum of Man 31st Annual Rock Art Symposium, San Diego, California. Paper: "The Interpretation of Art and the Art of Interpretation." | |
| 2005 | Southeastern College Art Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas. Paper: "Perspectives on Antillean Cave Art: Mesoamerica and the Caribbean," co-authored with Melisa A. Quesenberry. | |
| 2005 | American
Rock Art Research Association 32nd Annual Meeting, Reno,
Nevada.
Paper:
"Style and Chemistry: Dating Rock Art in
Brazil," co-authored with Karen L. Steelman. |
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| 2004 | Southeastern Archaeological Conference and Midwestern Archaeological Conference Joint Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri. Paper: "Seeing 'Things'." | |
| 2004 | American Rock Art Research Association 31st Annual Meeting, Nuevo Casas Grande, Chihuahua, Mexico. Paper: "A Niche in Time: JD-5, Caribbean Cave Art, and the Fourth Dimension," co-authored with Melisa Quesenberry. | |
| 2003 | Society for American Archaeology 68th Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Paper: "From the Center to the Serra: Time, Space and Art in Pre-Cabralian Brazil." | |
| 2002 | American Rock Art Research Association 29th Annual Conference, Dubois, Wyoming. Paper: "Chapada Diamantina Rock Art: New Evidence of Nordeste Tradition Variations in Bahia, Brazil." Co-authored with Claudia Cunha. | |
| 2002 | Eleventh Annual New Scholars / New Ideas Graduate Art History Symposium, Virginia Commonwealth University. Paper: "Masked Rites and Rock Art: Presenting the Past in Indigenous Brazilian Art." | |
| 2001 | Society for American Archaeology 66th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Paper: "Innovation and Continuity: Issues of Style and Tradition in Northeast Brazilian Rock Art." | |
| 2001 | Society for American Archaeology 66th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Paper: "Cuban Rock Art and Caves." Co-authored with John Greer. | |
| 2000 | International Rock Art Congress, Alice Springs, Australia. Paper: "Rock Art as Art: Consideration of the Aesthetic in Archaic Rock Painting." | |
| 1999 | Utah Rock Art Research Association Symposium, Vernal, Utah. Paper: "The Barrier Canyon Style: A Pan-Archaic American Aesthetic?" | |
| 1999 | International Rock Art Congress, Ripon, Wisconsin. Paper: "Horseshoe Canyon's Great Gallery and Archaic Performance." | |
| 1999 | Student International Studies Research Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University. Paper: "Nordeste Paintings: The Case for a Pan-Archaic American Rock Art Tradition." | |
| 1998 | International Rock Art Congress, Vila Real, Portugal. Paper: "Similarities in Anthropomorphic Depictions from the Greater American Southwest and the São Raimundo Nonato area of Piauí, Brazil." | |
| 1997 | Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Florida State University. Paper: "The Jomon Figurine Tradition and Its Relationship to the Development of Early Japanese Art and Subsequent Belief Systems." | |
Languages Read/Spoken: |
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| Portuguese (reading and speaking ability) | ||
| Spanish (reading and speaking ability) | ||
| French (reading ability with dictionary) | ||
| German (reading ability with dictionary) | ||
Research Travel: |
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| 2007 | Utah (Emery County) | |
| 2006-2007 | Cuba (Habana-Matanzas, Granma), Jamaica (Saint Catherine, Saint Elizabeth), University Research Council, Faculty Research Grant #130062 | |
| 2006 | Italy (Valcamonica), France (Ariège, Dordogne, Lot) | |
| 2006 | Puerto Rico (Juana Diaz) | |
| 2004 | Brazil (Piauí), University Research Council, Faculty Research Grant #212233 | |
| 2003 | Puerto Rico (Arecibo, Caguas, Jayuya, Juana Diaz, Morovis, Utuado, Vega Baja) | |
| 2001 | Brazil (Ceará, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Tocantins) | |
| 2001 | Cuba (Habana-Matanzas, Camagüey) | |
| 2000 | Brazil (Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro) | |
| 2000 | Peru (Lima, Cusco, Huara) | |
| 2000 | Cuba (Habana-Matanzas) | |
| 1999 | Brazil (Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Bahia) | |
| 1999 | North American Midwest and Southwest(11 states) | |
| 1998 | Brazil (Piauí) | |
| 1998 | American Southwest (Utah, Arizona, Texas) | |
| 1997 | Barbados (St. James) | |
| 1996 | England and France (prehistoric monuments and Gothic churches) | |
| 1996 | North American Southwest (New Mexico, Utah, Arizona) | |
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