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David Pacifico

  • Associate Professor, Latin American Art, Art History

Education

  • PhD 2014 (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
  • MA 2008 (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
  • BA 2003 (Anthropology and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania)
  • Certificate in University Teaching 2014 (University of Chicago Center for Teaching)
  • Certificate in Assessment 2017 (DePaul University Office for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment)

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ARTHIST 104-201 African, New World and Oceanic Art and Architecture No Meeting Pattern
ARTHIST 740-001 Colloquium in Latin American Art: Pre-Columbian Art R 2:30pm-5:10pm

Courses Taught

  • ARTHIST 372 - Art of the Incas and their Ancestors
  • ARTHIST 371 - African Art

Teaching Interests

Teaching interests include the material culture of South America and Africa as well as public engagement with archaeological heritage.

Research Interests

Related Activities

  • Field work:
    • Archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in the Peru's Casma Valley since 2004.
    • Director of the Casma Hinterland Archaeological Project, an interdisciplinary project on the North Coast of Peru
    • Director of the Milwaukee Community Archaeology Project, an examination of early settlement in Milwaukee County.
    • Previous fieldwork includes archaeology in Peru's Chao Valley, Chicago's Jackson Park, and digital 'fieldwork' on Corinth, Greece.
  • Society for American Archaeology (Co-Chair, Heritage Values Interest Group)
  • Archaeological Institute of America (President, Archaeological Institute of America - Milwaukee Chapter)
  • American Anthropological Association
  • Wisconsin Archaeological Society
  • Milwaukee County Historical Society

Honors and Awards

  • National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2010)
  • Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (2010-2011)

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.