Tom Cummins, Ph.D. Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art, Harvard University
	Education B.F.A. Art History; minors in English and History. Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 1973.  M.A. Art History (Medieval; minors: Pre-Columbian/Oceanic) UCLA, 1980 Thesis: "The South Central Trumeau Figures at Chartres Cathedral: A Historiographic Analysis."  Ph.D. Art History (Pre-Columbian) UCLA, 1988.  Dissertation Topic: "Abstraction to Narration: Kero Imagery of Peru and the Colonial Alteration of Native Identity."
Teaching 2002- Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art 2001-02 University of Chicago, Professor 1998-2001 University of Chicago, Associate Professor 1991-98 University of Chicago, Assistant Professor 1989-91 Virginia Commonwealth University, Assistant Professor.
	Publications Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Kero Vessels. University of Michigan Press, 2002. EDITED VOLUMES AND CATALOGUES Native Traditions in the Postconquest World. Elizabeth Boone and Tom Cummins eds., Dumbarton Oaks: Washington DC., 1998 Arte prehispanico del Ecuador: Huellas del pasado. Los sellos de Jama-Coaque (with Julio Burgos and Carlos Mora) Miscelánea Antropológica Ecuatoriana, Serie Monográfica, 11, Banco Central: Guayaquil, 1996.   Native Artists and Patrons in Colonial Latin America. Emily Umberger and Tom Cummins, eds. Phoebus, No. 7, Phoenix: Arizona State University, 1995.   Awards and Honors Senior Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks 1999- J. Paul Getty Senior Research Grant 1995-1996 Chicago Humanities Institute Faculty Associate 1995-96 Cited in list of people who in their field "are regarded by their peers as experts' experts" in "The Great Experts" Art News Sept. 1992: 90-101. Postdoctoral Fellow MIT, January 1988 - August 1989 Dickson Support Fellowship 1981-1982 Dickson Travel Fellowship 1980-1981 Dickson Support Fellowship 1979-1980