#  Thomas B.F. Cummins 

· Director of Dumbarton Oaks

· Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art

· Pre-Columbian and Latin American Art

 

 

 



   ![Portrait of Thomas Cummins](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2026-04/_NZF1711-3.jpg?itok=NLY2kFE9) 

 



 

 location\_on 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 Room 409 

 smartphone [617.496.1094](tel:617.496.1094) 

 email <cummins@fas.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Tom Cummins' Website](http://scholar.harvard.edu/tcummins) 

 laptop\_windows [Tom Cummins' CV](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/history-artsarchitecture/files/cummins_2023_curriculum_vitae_b.pdf) 

 

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After being spawned at the bottom of the Hoboken River, birthplace also of Frank Sinatra, TBFC left the hallowed waters of New Jersey’s most famous water way and went on to prove Darwin’s theory of evolution and received his PhD from UCLA. (Actually he never picked the diploma up, but it is out there, somewhere, he believes.)



 

 

 





 

 

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