Megan E. O’Neil

Megan E. O’Neil is associate professor of art history at Emory University and is a specialist in the ancient Maya and other Mesoamerican cultures. She received her doctorate in the history of art from Yale University. One aspect of her reearch focuses on ancient Maya creation of and engagement with stone sculptures, explored in her first book, Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (Oklahoma), and Memory in Fragments: The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures (Texas). She also published a revised edition of Maya Art and Architecture (Thames and Hudson, co-authored with Mary Miller), The Maya (Reaktion), and articles in journals and edited volumes about Maya sculpture, painting, and ceramics that address topics such as iconoclasm, touch and tactility, and materiality, as well as histories of collecting and the reception of Mesoamerican art and culture into the modern day.