Chelsea Dacus

Advisor: Costello, Leo


Mount Holyoke College, BA, Art History

Southern Methodist University, MA, Art History with a specialty in Maya Art


Chelsea Dacus is a Ph.D. student on the Museum Professionals track at Rice University. She is also Assistant Curator of The Glassell Collections, the arts of Africa, Indigenous Pacific Islands, Australia, and the Americas, and Antiquities at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her research examines the role played by metal artworks in the staging of vision by the Tiwanaku civilization of Bolivia, which reached its height between 600-1100 CE.

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