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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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| 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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| 2008 | University Research Council, Faculty Research Grant (#130142): "Rock Art at Machu Picchu." | |
| 2008 | University Research Council, Faculty Research Grant (#130096): "The Angelim Style in Northeast Brazil: 2008 Survey of Distribution and Relative Chronology." | |
| 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) | |
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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| 2009 | International Congress of Rock Art (sponsored by the International Federation of Rock Art Organizations and the Associação Brasileira de Arte Rupestre), Serra da Capivara National Park, São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí, Brazil . Papers: "Newly Discovered Rock Art at Machu Picchu," "Serra Branca and Salitre Style Rock Art: An Argument for a Revised Chronology," "Bahia and the Origins of Nordeste Rock Art," "Aesthetics and Brazilian Rock Art," "Warrior Display in Brazilan Rock Art," "Mastodons, Masks and Misunderstandings," and, "The Angelim Style of Northeast Brazil." | |
| 2009 | Society for American Archaeology 74th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. Paper: "New Rock Art at Old Machu Picchu ." | |
| 2008 | Society for American Archaeology 73rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Brtitish Columbia, Canada. Paper: "Gendered Display: Warfare Iconography in the Rock Art of Northeast Brazil." | |
| 2007 | XXII Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Kingston, Jamaica. Paper: "Modified Speleothems and Caribbean Rock Art." | |
| 2007 | Southeastern College Art Conference, Charleston, West Virginia. Paper: "Man Art: Warrior Display Iconography in Ancient South America." | |
| 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." | |
Research Travel: |
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| 2009 | Brazil (Piauí, Bahia) U. of Central Arkansas Research Grant #130096 | |
| 2008 | Peru (Machu Picchu) U. of Central Arkansas Research Grant #130142 | |
| 2008 | Brazil (Piauí, Bahia, Sergipe) U. of Central Arkansas Research Grant #130096 | |
| 2007 | Jamaica (St. Catherine, Manchester) U. of Central Arkansas Research Grant #130062 | |
| 2007 | Utah (Emery County) | |
| 2006-2007 | Cuba (Habana-Matanzas, Granma), Jamaica (Saint Catherine, Saint Elizabeth), U. of Central Arkansas 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, Huaro) | |
| 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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