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Dissertations Completed: Pre-Columbian

• BERNAL-GARCIA, MARIA ELENA, "Carving Mountains in a Blue/Green Bowl: Mythological Urban Planning in Mesoamerica" (1993, L. Schele)
• BERNATZ, MICHELE MAE, "The Concept of Divinity in Maya Art: Defining God L" (2006, J. Guernsey and D. Stuart)
• CARRASCO, MICHAEL DAVID, "The Mask Flange Inconographic Complex: The Art, Ritual, and History of a Maya Sacred Image" (2005, J. Guernsey and D. Stuart)
• CASH, CRISTIN LOREN, "Locating the Place and Meaning of Talud-Tablero Architectural Style in the Early Classic Maya Built Environment" (2005, J. Guernsey)
• CHRISTENSON, ALLEN, "Scaling the Mountain of the Ancients: The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala" (1998, T. Grieder)
• FARMER, JAMES DANIEL, "Style and Variation in Early Anasazi Art: The Green Mask Site in Grand Gulch, Utah" (1992, T. Grieder)
• GUERNSEY, JULIA, "Of Macaws and Men: Late Preclassic Cosmology and Political Ideology in Izapan-Style Monuments" (1997, L. Schele)
• HEADRICK, ANNABETH, "The Teotihuacan Trinity: Unmasking the Political Structure" (1996, L. Schele)
• KELKER, NANCY, "An Historical Tradition in the Art of the Pre-Columbian Southwest Caribbean Lowlands" (1985, T. Grieder)
• KOONTZ, REX ASHLEY, "The Iconography of El Tajin, Veracruz, Mexico" (1994, L. Schele)
• LEIMER, ANN MARIE, "Performing the Sacred: The Concept of Journey in Codex Delilah" (2005, A. Malagamba)
• LOOPER, MATTHEW, "The Sculpture Programs of Butz'-Tiliw, An Eighth-Century Maya King of Quirigua, Guatemala" (1995, L. Schele)
• MILLER, VIRGINIA, "Pose & Gesture in Classic Maya Monumental Sculpture" (1981, T. Grieder)
• NEWSOME, ELIZABETH, "The Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: Vision Quest and Creation in the Stelae Cycle of 18-Rabbit-God-K, Copan, Honduras" (1991, L. Schele)
• NIEVES, ANA, "Between the River and the Pampa: A Contextual Approach to the Rock Art of the Nasca Valley (Grande River System, Department of Ica, Peru)" (2007, S. Bourget and T. Grieder)
• OAKLAND RODMAN, AMY, "Tiwanaku Textile Style from the South Central Andes, Bolivia" (1986, T. Grieder)
• ORR, HEATHER, "Power Games in the Late Formative Valley of Oaxaca: The Ballplayer Carvings at Dainzu" (1997, L. Schele)
• PAUL, ANNE, "Paracas Ritual Attire: Symbols of Authority in Ancient Peru" (1980, R. Townsend)
• POPE, ELIZABETH, "Mythic Architecture and Drama in Ancient Mesoamerica: The Manifestation of the Mythological Landscape in the Historical World" (2006, J. Guernsey)
• REENTS, DORIE, "The Holmul Style Late Classic Maya Polychrome Pottery" (1985, L. Schele)
• ROTE, CAREY, "Traditions in Pre-Columbian Funerary Art at Monte Alban and in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico" (1987, L. Schele)
• SPENCER, KAYLEE, "Framing the Portrait: Towards an Understanding of Elite Late Classic Maya Representation at Palenque, Mexico" (Guernsey, 2007)
• STONE, ANDREA, "The Zoomorphs of Quirigua, Guatemala" (1983, L. Schele)
• TATE, CAROLYN, "Symbol as Language in the Ritual Landscape of Yaxchilan, Mexico" (1986, L. Schlele)