Ms. Greco is a registered citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She have been teaching Art Appreciation at San Antonio College since receiving a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 1981. In 1984 she received a Masters of Anthropology degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her archaeological experience includes excavations and research on material culture in Lower Pecos are in south Texas and the Maya in Central America in addition to conducting research concerned with aesthetic images created by incarcerated Chicanos and their role in maintaining emotional bonds with loved ones and ties to cultural heritage.

Her current projects include research focusing on the iconography of the ancient Maya stemming from recent research as a project Illustrator for The Programme for Belize Archaeological Project affiliated with the Mesoamerican Archaeological Research Laboratory (MARL) at the University of Texas at Austin.

Education

1985 – 2008 (A.B.D.) Ph.D in Anthropology, The University of Pennsylvania

RESEARCH INTEREST

Ph.D concentration: Cultural Anthropology and The Americas

aesthetic anthropology, urban anthropology, Hispanic and Indigenous America

archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology, culture theory, ethnographic

field methods.

1984 Master of Arts in Anthropology, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Thesis: Renewing Reality: An Interpretive framework for Prehistoric Pictographs: The

Lower Pecos as a Case Study”

RESEARCH INTERESTS

M.A. concentration: Archaeology and The Americas

Interpretation of aesthetic objects and images within the archeological context,

pictographs (North American, Australia and Africa) , Maya archaeology,

historic and prehistoric archaeology of Texas.

1981 Master of Fine Art, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Thesis: “Art as Prayer, the Sand Paintings of the Navaho”

STUDIO EMPHASIS

M.A. concentration: Drawing

Painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, art history (modern

and contemporary), aesthetics of non-western societies.

1979 Bachelor of Fine Art, The University of Texas at San Antonio

magna cum laude

STUDIO EMPHASIS

B.F.A. concentration: Drawing

Experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Academic

2012 Fall St Mary’s University . Department of Sociology. San Antonio, Texas

COURSES TAUGHT: Native Cultures of North America

2008-present Our Lady of the Lake University , Department of Sociology, San Antonio, Texas.

Adjunct COURSES TAUGHT: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Fall 2008- 2012-

Faculty traditional classroom and online); The Archaeology of Mexico (Spring 2009); SocialProblems (Spring 2009-online course ); Native Cultures of North America (Fall2009 ); The Archaeology of the Maya (Spring 2010) Themes of Shamanism (Independent Study, Spring/ Fall 2010); The Art and Archaeology of the Maya(Spring 2011/ 2012) . Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2012).

1987-2012 San Antonio College, Visual Arts and Technology Department. San Antonio. Texas

Adjunct Adjunct full-time Temporary Fall 2006 & Fall 2007.

Faculty COURSES TAUGHT: Art Appreciation. ( Course taught on the internet Spring 2002– 201; Blackboard Vista / Canvas certified)

1987 – 1988 University of Pennsylvania , Department of Anthropology. Philadelphia .

Teaching COURSES TAUGHT: Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Introduction toFellow Cultural Anthropology

Spring 1985 University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Lecturer COURSES TAUGHT: Man in Adaptation

1981 - 1984 San Antonio College , Visual Arts and Technology Department. San Antonio, Texas

Lecturer COURSES TAUGHT: Drawing One; Drawing Two 2; Drawing and Painting, Art

Appreciation

Publications

Publications

2011 Seeps, Springs, and the Pecos River Style Pictograph: Renewing Reality in the Light of 25 Years . American Indian Rock Art Journal, Volume 37,

In press. The Care of Souls and the Restoration of Ancestors: Burial 7, Shumla Cave In Painters in Prehistory: The art and archaeology of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands (ed.) Harry Schafer (orig.1987)

1998 A Teaching for Counselors from Native American Spirit Guide s NP. In fulfillment forSubstance Abuse Education Course. San Antonio College. Fall.

1994 Arte de Corazón: Images and Objects from the Heart. Reprinted in Laredos: A Journal of the Borderlands Vol. 1, No 4 April 1994

1998 Imágenes del Cora: Sustaining Bonds of Affection and Identity. The Roots of ChicanoAesthetic Culture. Acequia Fall 1994

1998 Arte de Corazon: images and Objects from the Heart. In Encuentro/Coming Together. Exhibition catalog. Appalshop and the Guadalupe Cultural Center. Fall 1991.