Fellows and Visiting Scholars in Pre-Columbian Studies

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2023–2024

Visiting Scholars

• Elizabeth Boone (Tulane University, fall term)
• John Verano (Tulane University, fall term)

Fellows

• Alicia Boswell (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Rebecca González Lauck (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico)
• Keith Prufer (University of New Mexico)
• Joshua Schnell (Brown University)

Junior Fellows

• Anthony Meyer (University of California-Los Angeles)
• Amanda Suarez Calderon (University of Pittsburgh)

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Elena Janney (Harvard University)
• Adriana Zenteno Hopp (Harvard University)

Summer 2023 Fellows

• Morgan Clark (Brown University), "Gods Seen and Heard: Speech and Image in Classic Maya Mythohistory"
• Fabián Alberto Olán de la Cruz (CIESAS Peninsular, Mérida), "From the Cuchcabal Cochuah to the Subdelegación de los Beneficios Altos: Villages, Territory and Frontier in Eastern Yucatán, 1527-1812"

Flora Clancy Fellowship in Maya Studies for Researchers from Latin America

• Brenda Guadalupe Jiménez Vásquez (CIESAS, Mexico City), "Changes in the Use of Medicinal Plants in the Area of Influence of the Indigenous Coordinating Center of Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas"

2022–2023

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2022–2023 Annual Report.

Fellows

• Barbara Arroyo (Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroquín), "Beyond Clay, Stone, and Sand: Kaminaljuyu and its role in the Ancient History of Southeastern Mesoamerica"
• Timothy Beach (The University of Texas at Austin), "The Maya Wetlands Renaissance: Human-Wetland Interactions from Antiquity to the Anthropocene"
• Allison Caplan (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Our Flickering Creations: Precious Art Theory under the Aztec Empire"
• Mallory Melton (Independent Scholar), "Feeding the Urban Experiment: Preclassic Agroforestry Systems of Pacific Guatemala (900 BCE-100 CE)"

Junior Fellows

• Nicholas E. Brown (Yale University), "Interactions, Innovations, and Influences of Chavin Arts through the Central Andes of Peru"
• Hayley B. Woodward (Tulane University), "The Codex Xolotl: The Visual Discourse of Place and History in Early Colonial Mexico"

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Annick Benavides, “Sacred Place and Possession in the Andes: Carabuco Cross and Copacabana Virgen”
• Sarah Loomis, "A Monumental Blaze of Glory: An Osteological Analysis of Human Remains from Los Guachimontones, Jalisco, Mexico"

Flora Clancy Fellow in Maya Studies for Latin American Researchers

• Adolfo Iván Batún-Alpuche (Universidad de Oriente), "Postclassic Maya Beekeeping Gardens and Landscape Management in Cozumel and the Eastern coast of Yucatan"

Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Post-Doctoral Fellow

• Joanne Baron, "Kerr Maya Archive Cataloging Project"

Summer Fellows

• Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato (Harvard Divinity School), “Consuming Copal: Tree Resin, Teotl, and Ancient Mesoamerican Relationality”
• Victor Emmanuel Salazar Chavez (George Washington University), “Foodways and Ballcourts: Studies at Early Formative Etlatongo, Oaxaca”
• Matthias Urban (University of Tübingen, Germany), “Tracing Linguistic and Material Indexes of Social Identity in the Ancient Central Ande”

2021–2022

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2021–2022 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

• William L. Fash (Harvard University, Fall)

Fellows

• Bat-ami Artzi (independent scholar), “The Vilcabamba Piece as a Watershed between Ancient and Colonial Andean Art”
• Christina Halperin (University of Montreal, Spring), “Foreigners and ‘Others’ in Ancient Maya Society”
• David L. Lentz (University of Cincinnati, Fall), “Agriculture, Ethnobotany, and Agroforestry of the Ancient Maya”
• Juan Carlos Melendez (Washington University in St. Louis), “Understanding the Pre-Columbian Production of Greenstone Ornaments in the Maya Area and Beyond through a Microarchaeological Lens”
• Ann H. Peters (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology), “Paracas Necropolis Mortuary Regalia, Imagery, and Sociopolitical Networks”
• Crystal Sheedy (independent scholar), “Maya Women’s Worlds: Speech and Practice in a Maya Community”

Junior Fellows

• Patricia Chirinos Ogata (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Wari and Cajamarca: Imperial Entanglements and Local Resilience in Northern Peru during the Middle Horizon”
• Jacob Welch (Yale University, Spring), “Ancient Maya Labor Relations: Building a Palace at Ucanha, Yucatan, Mexico”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Annick Benavides, “Sacred Place and Possession in the Andes: Carabuco Cross and Copacabana Virgen”

Summer Fellows

• James Davenport (University of New Mexico), “Hand of the Potter, Hand of the State: Production of Pottery and Imperial Control in Tawantinsuyu”
• James Doyle (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), “Lives of the Gods in Maya Art”
• Erêndira Oliveira (Universidade de Sao Paulo), “Transformations and Metaphors: A Comparative Study to the Archaeological Polychrome Ceramics in the Amazon”

2020–2021

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2020–2021 Annual Report.

Fellow

• Patrick Hajovsky (Southwestern University), “Sculpting across the Conquest: Indigenous Artistic Practice and Sacred Knowledge in Central Mexico”

Junior Fellows

• M. Elizabeth Grávalos (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Tracking Recuay Traditions: Prehispanic Craft Learning and Social Networks in Highland Ancash, Peru”
• Mallory Matsumoto (Brown University), “Sharing Script: Transmission of Hieroglyphic Practice among Classic Maya Scribes”
• Jo Osborn (University of Michigan), “The Development of Fishing Communities on the Peruvian Coast: New Insights from Excavations at Jahuay, Peru”
• Alejandra Roche Recinos (Brown University), “Regional Production and Exchange of Stone Tools in the Maya Polity of Piedras Negras, Guatemala”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• James Almeida, “Coercing the Andes: The Legacies of Inca Forced Labor Practices in Colonial Potosí”
• Felipe Ledesma-Núñez, “Sound and Singing/Dancing in the Rural Colonial Andes, 1560–1700: Demons, Sorceries, Idolatries”

 

2019–2020

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2019-2020 Annual Report.

Fellows

• Stephanie M. Strauss (University of Texas at Austin), “Sculpting the Narrative: The Material Practice of Epi-Olmec Art and Writing”
• Saburo Sugiyama (Arizona State University, Fall), “Urbanism, Arts, and Polity of Ancient Teotihuacan”
• Loa Traxler (University of New Mexico), “Establishing the Dynastic House: The Founding and Early Evolution of the Copan Acropolis”

Junior Fellows

• Gina Buckley (Pennsylvania State University), “What Is the City but the People? A Comparative Analysis of Migration and Socioeconomic Status Groups in the La Ventilla District of Classic Period Teotihuacan”
• Victor Castillo (University of Arizona), “Conquest as Revival in the Sixteenth-Century Maya Highlands: Excavations at Chiantla Viejo, Guatemala”
• Sarah Kennedy (University of Pittsburgh), “Marginalized Labor in the Silver Mining Industry: Reconstructing Power and Identity in Colonial Peru”
• Michelle Young (Yale University), “The ‘Chavín Phenomenon’ in Huancavelica, Peru: Interregional Interaction, Ritual Practice, and Social Transformations at Atalla”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• James Almeida, “Coercing the Andes: The Legacies of Inca Forced Labor Practices in Colonial Potosí”
• Trenton Barnes, “Walking the Space of Time: Void and Body in the Architecture of Teotihuacan, Mexico”
• Felipe Ledesma-Núñez, “Sound and Singing/Dancing in the Rural Colonial Andes, 1560–1700: Demons, Sorceries, Idolatries”

Summer Fellows

• David Colmenares Gonzalez (Columbia University), “How the Aztecs Got a Pantheon: The Creation of an Ancient Religion in New Spain”
• Mirjana Danilovic (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), “Addressing Alterity: The Case of Mexica Dance”
• Christopher Valesey (Pennsylvania State University), “‘With Eagle-ness, With Jaguar-ness’: Predators and Military Tropes in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica”

  

2018–2019

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2018–2019 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

• Maria Teresa Uriarte (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Spring)

Fellows

• Traci Ardren (University of Miami, Spring), “Go in Pairs, Intertwined: Soft Technologies and the Role of Plants in Classic Maya Identity”
• Alexandre Tokovinine (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Spring), “In the Shadow of Overlords: Minor Royal Dynasties of the Classic Maya”
• James Zeidler (Colorado State University), “Contextual and Iconographic Analysis of Prehispanic Ceramic Artifacts from the Jama River Valley, Coastal Ecuador”

Junior Fellows

• Angel Gonzalez (University of California, Riverside), “The Production of New Political Speech: Unpacking the Stone Sculptures Archive from Tenochtitlan”
• Carla Hernandez Garavito (Vanderbilt University), “Cultural Legibility and the Provincial Inca Empire: Subjugation of the Inca in Local Memory and Ritual in Huarochirí”
• Patrick Mullins (University of Pittsburgh), “The Transformation of Political Frontier Landscapes in the Upper Moche Valley of Peru”
• Scotti Norman (Vanderbilt University), “The Archaeology of Taki Onqoy: Revitalization and Religious Entanglement in Highland Peru”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Trenton Barnes, “Walking the Space of Time: Void and Body in the Architecture of Teotihuacan, Mexico”

Summer Fellows

• Eugenia Ibarra (Universidad de Costa Rica), “Exploring the Ethnohistory of Pre-Columbian Late Migrants in Lower Central America: Maribios, Mexicanos, and Cicuas in Focus in the 16th Century”
• Gary Urton (Harvard University), “Inca Khipu”
• Isabel Yaya McKenzie (Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, Paris), “Beyond Descent and Affinity: Rethinking the Inca Royal Ayllus as a ‘House Society’”

 

2017–2018

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2017–2018 Annual Report.

Fellows

• Steve Kosiba (University of Minnesota), “Becoming Inca: Landscape Construction and Subject Creation in Ancient Cuzco”
• Jerry Moore (California State University, Dominguez Hills, Fall), “Ancient Andean Houses: Dynamics of Domestic Space in South America”

Junior Fellows

• Gabriela Cervantes (University of Pittsburgh), “The Sican Capital: Urban Organization in Pre-Columbian Peru”
• Mary Kelly (Tulane University), “Speech Carved in Stone: Language Variation among the Ancient Lowland Maya”
• Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire (Tulane University), “Palatial Politics: The Classic Maya Royal Court at La Corona, Guatemala”
• Luis Muro (Stanford University), “Moche Spectacles of Death: Performance, Corporality, and Political Power in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru”

William R. Tyler Fellow

• Ari Caramanica, “The Forgotten Landscapes of the Peruvian North Coast: Cupisnique, Moche, and Chimu Peripheral Occupation”

Summer Fellows

• Agnieszka Brylak (University of Warsaw), “Buffoons and Sorcerers: The Merging of Witchcraft and Entertainment in Colonial Sources on Prehispanic Nahuas”
• Erlend Johnson (Tulane University), “Investigating the Integrative Strategies of the Classic Maya Copan Polity on Its Southeastern Frontier”
• John Schwaller (University at Albany), “The Rituals of the Aztec Month of Panquetzaliztli”

 

2016–2017

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2016–2017 Annual Report.

Fellows

• Brian Bauer (University of Illinois at Chicago), “The Lord of Vilcabamba”
• Ryan Clasby (University of Missouri–St. Louis), “Bridging the Andean-Amazonian Divide: Examining Sociopolitical Developments at the Eastern Edge of the Andes”
• Tom Cummins (Harvard University)
• Lori Boornazian Diel (Texas Christian University, Fall), “An Aztec History Painting in the Codex Mexicanus”

Junior Fellows

• Ximena Chávez Balderas (Tulane University), “The Offering of Life: Human and Animal Sacrifice at the West Plaza of the Sacred Precinct, Tenochtitlan”
• Eric Dyrdahl (Pennsylvania State University, Fall), “Interregional Interaction and Craft Production at Las Orquídeas, Imbabura, Ecuador, during the Late Formative (800–400 cal BC)”
• Jessica MacLellan (University of Arizona), “Early Households and Ritual in the Preclassic Maya Lowlands”

William R. Tyler Fellow

• Ari Caramanica, “The Forgotten Landscapes of the Peruvian North Coast: Cupisnique, Moche, and Chimu Peripheral Occupation”

Summer Fellows

• Melanie Miller (University of California, Berkeley), “Social Inequality and the Body: Food, Labor, and Health in a Prehistoric Colombian Population”
• Paz Nuñez-Regueiro (Musée du quai Branly), “Metalwork from Patagonia (Tenth to Nineteenth Centuries): Origins, Uses, and Distribution of Silverwork Jewelry”

 

2015–2016

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2015–2016 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

• William Fash (Harvard University, Spring)

Fellows

• Christopher Beekman (University of Colorado, Denver), “Out of Many, One: Collective Governance and Its Visual Ramifications in Pre-Columbian Jalisco, Mexico”
• Takeshi Inomata (University of Arizona), “Ritual and Politics at the Preclassic Maya Center of Ceibal, Guatemala”
• Daniela Triadan (University of Arizona), “The Development of Social Inequality at the Preclassic Maya Center of Ceibal, Guatemala”

Junior Fellows

• Erika Brant (University of Virginia), “The Dead Rose from the Ground: Ancestors and Political Authority in a Post-Collapse Andean Society (1000–1450 CE)”
• Rebecca Mendelsohn (University at Albany), “The Early Mesoamerican City of Izapa and the Southern Maya Region”
• Jennifer Saracino (Tulane University), “Shifting Landscape: Depictions of Environmental and Cultural Disruption in the Mapa Uppsala”

Summer Fellows

• Kirby Farah (University of California, Riverside), “Palace and Home: Creating and Maintaining an Elite Identity at Postclassic Xaltocan”
• Anastasia Kalyuta (Russian Museum of Ethnography), “Discovering the Mysteries of the Oztoticpac Lands Map: Paleography and Translation of Nahua Land Cadastre”
• Matthew Looper (California State University, Chico), “Deer Imagery in Ancient Maya Art”
• David Reed (University of Michigan), “Maya in the Middle”

  

2014–2015

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2014–2015 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

• Gary Urton (Harvard University)

Fellows

• Timothy Knowlton (Berry College), “The Semiotics of Body and Cosmos in Maya Healing Incantation”
• Jorge Ramos (Instituto Hondureño de Antropología), “A Sacred and Defensive Hill and the Memory of the 12 Ruler in Late Classic Copán, Honduras”

Junior Fellows

• Sarah Baitzel (University of California, San Diego), “Giving Life, Taking Life: Mortuary Rituals and Social Identities at the Tiwanaku Colony Omo M10, Moquegua, Peru”
• Alicia Boswell (University of California, San Diego), “Cocales, the Chimú, and the Inca: Prestige Resources in Late Andean Empires”
• Caitlin Earley (University of Texas at Austin), “At the Edge of the Maya World: Power, Politics, and Identity in Monuments of the Comitán Valley, Chiapas, Mexico”

Summer Fellows

• Martin Berger (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde), “Mosaic Skulls: Ancestors, Human Remains, and the Forgery of Mesoamerican Material Culture”
• Sophie Desrosiers (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), “Andean Geometric Designs: Woven Origins, Their Location in Time and Place”
• Benjamin Rosales (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), “Searching for Archaeological Indications of Long-Distance Pre-Columbian Balsa Raft Navigation”

  

2013–2014

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2013–2014 Annual Report.

Fellow

• Élodie Dupey García (Universidad Autónoma de México), “Color and Culture among the Pre-Hispanic Nahuas”

Junior Fellows

• Nicholas Carter (Brown University), “That Strength Which in Old Days Moved Earth and Heaven: Kingship in the Maya Terminal Classic Period”
• Zachary Chase (University of Chicago), “Performing the Past in the Ritual, Mythological, and Historical Landscapes of Huarochirí, Peru (ca. 1400-1700)”
• Jamie Forde (University of Colorado, Boulder), “The Conquest of the Hill of the Sun: Indigenous Domestic Life at Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico”
• Alejandra Rojas (Harvard University), “Flora Incognita: Picturing Nature in the New World”
• Franco Rossi (Boston University), “The Brothers Taaj: Orders and the Politics of Expertise in the Late Maya Court”

William R. Tyler Fellow

• Nawa Sugiyama (Harvard University), “Ritualized Animals: Understanding Human-Animal Interactions at Teotihuacan”

Summer Fellows

• Cristina Barreto (Universidade de São Paulo), “Figuring the Body in Ancient Amazonia”
• Bérénice Gaillemin (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre), “A Critical Perspective on Central Mexican Writing and the Phonetic Principle”

 

2012–2013

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2012–2013 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

• Katharina Schreiber (University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring)

Fellows

• Ricardo Agurcia (Asociación Copán, Spring), “Art, Architecture, and Archaeology at Temple 16, Copán, Honduras”
• Paul Goldstein (University of California, San Diego), “Being Tiwanaku: Tiwanaku Social Identities in Diaspora”
• Jeff Kowalski (Northern Illinois University, Spring), “The Nunnery Quadrangle at Uxmal: Kingship, Court, and Cosmos in a Puuc Palace Complex”
• Axel Nielsen (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), “Llama Caravans and Interregional Trade in the South Andes: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives”
• Frauke Sachse (Universität Bonn), “Changing Otherworlds: Concepts of ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’ in the Context of Early Colonial Christianization”

Junior Fellows

• Go Matsumoto (Southern Illinois University), “The Ideological Function of the Middle Sicán Ancestor Cult, Northern North Coast of Peru (ca. 900–1100 CE)”
• Maeve Skidmore (Southern Methodist University), “Hatun Cotuyoc: A Domestic Perspective on the Construction of a Wari Province and Empire in Huaro, Cusco, Peru”
• Kenichiro Tsukamoto (University of Arizona), “Building Ritual Landscapes: The Hieroglyphic Stairway at the Classic Maya Center of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Dylan Clark (Harvard University), “Living on the Edge: The Residential Spaces, Social Organization, and Dynamics of Isla Cerritos, a Maya Port”
• Nawa Sugiyama (Harvard University), “Ritualized Animals: Understanding Human-Animal Interactions at Teotihuacan”
• Lisa Trever (Harvard University), “Moche Mural Painting and Practice at Pañamarca: A Study of Image Making in Ancient Peru”

Summer Fellows

• Lori Diel (Texas Christian University), “The Codex Mexicanus on the Mexica of Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco”
• Cynthia Kristan-Graham (Auburn University), “A Marketplace of Ideas at Chichén Itzá: The Mercado and the Group of the Thousand Columns”
• Elisa Mandell (California State University–Fullerton), “Representing Death and Decomposition in Costa Rican Funerary Masks”
• Erick Rochette (The Pennsylvania State University), “The Price of Prestige: Examining Classic Maya Jade Artifact Use and Economic Organization”

  

2011–2012

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2011–2012 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

• Santiago Uceda Castillo (Director del Proyecto Arqueológico Huaca de la Luna, Fall)

Fellows

• Linda Brown (George Washington University), “Antiquities as Animate Objects: The Meanings and Circulation of Artifacts among Maya Ritual Practitioners”
• Luis Jaime Castillo Butters (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima), “San José de Moro and the End of the Moche from the Jequetepeque Valley”
• Yuichi Matsumoto (Yale University), “Reconsidering Chavín and Early Paracas: Interregional Interactions in the South-Central Andes”

Junior Fellows

• James Doyle (Brown University), “The First Maya ‘Collapse’: The End of the Preclassic Period at El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala”
• Laura Gamez Diaz (University of Pittsburgh), “Household Religiosity: Discerning Pluralism or Integration in the Ancient Maya City of Yaxha, Guatemala”
• Andrew Hamilton (Harvard University, Fall), “Scale in the Pre-Columbian Andes”
• Elizabeth Paris (University at Albany, State University of New York), “Political Economy on the Post-Classic Western Maya Frontier”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Dylan Clark (Harvard University), “Living on the Edge: The Residential Spaces, Social Organization, and Dynamics of Isla Cerritos, a Maya Port”
• Lisa Trever (Harvard University), “Moche Mural Painting and Practice at Pañamarca: A Study of Image Making in Ancient Peru”

Summer Fellows

• Stacey Dunn (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), “Architecture and Power in the Expansion of a Small Polity: Elite Households of the Chancay-Huaura Valley, Peru”
• James Louis Fitzsimmons (University of New Hampshire/Middlebury College), “The Archaeology of Death in Ancient Mesoamerica”
• Timothy Murtha (Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University), “The Ancient Maya Landscape: Early Perceptions and Interpretations”
• Christina Torres-Rouff (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile), “Crafting Social Identity through the Body in Prehistoric San Pedro de Atacama, Chile”
• Isabel Yaya (Musée du Quai Branly), “The Politics of Marriage in Inca Cuzco: Women and the Perpetuation of Kingship”

 

2010–2011

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2010–2011 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

• Ricardo Agurcia F. (Copan Association, Spring)

Fellows

• Ellen E. Bell (California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock), “Objects of Power on the Edge of the Maya World: Early Copan Acropolis Tombs, Offerings, and Special Deposits”
• John S. Justeson (University at Albany, State University of New York/University of South Carolina), “Epi-Olmec Hieroglyphic Writing and Its Decipherment”
• Peter Kaulicke (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima), “Formative Cosmovisions: Representation, Transformation, and Centrality”

Junior Fellows

• Molly Fierer-Donaldson (Harvard University, Fall), “Duality in Mesoamerican Mortuary Practices: The Quick and the Dead”
• Giancarlo Marcone (University of Pittsburgh), “Interlocking the Lima Culture: Intermediates Elites' Power Strategies at Lote B, Lurín Valley, Peru”
• Jessica Munson (University of Arizona, Tucson), “Building on the Past: Temple Histories and Communities of Practice at Caobal, Petén, Guatemala”
• Nathaniel P. VanValkenburgh (Harvard University, Spring), “Out of Urbs, Civitas: Landscapes of Forced Resettlement in the Zaña and Chamán Valleys, Peru”

Summer Fellows

• Kenneth Hirth (Pennsylvania State University), “Merchant Trade in Prehispanic Mesoamerica”
• Anastasia Kalyuta (Russian Museum of Ethnography), “Naming Patterns in Preconquest Mexica Society”
• John F. López (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “The Hydrographic City: Mapping Mexico City's Urban Form in Relation to Its Aquatic Condition, 1521–1700”
• Adam Sellen (Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, UNAM, México), “Murky Waters: Revisiting the Looting of the Sacred Cenote of Chichén Itzá, Yucatán”
• Janet Stephens (University of California, Los Angeles), “Constructing the Pre-Columbian Past: Legitimacy, Tradition, and Dynastic Paintings of the Inka in Colonial Peru”

 

2009–2010

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2009–2010 Annual Report.

Fellows

• Elizabeth Arkush (University of Virginia), “War, Violent Spectacle, and Political Authority in the Pre-Columbian Andes“
• Marco Curatola-Petrocchi (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), “The Shape of God’s Voice: A Study of Form, Organization, and Functioning of the Oracles in the Ancient Andean World”
• Jean-Pierre Protzen (University of California, Berkeley, Fall), “Tambo Colorado: A Coastal Inca Settlement”
• Calogero Santoro (Universidad Tarapacá de Arica), “Chinchorro in the Context of the Cultural and Environmental History of the Pre-Columbian Arica Region”
• Barbara Stark (Arizona State University, Spring), “Comparative Analysis of Ancient Urban Greenspace”

Junior Fellows

• Ana Pulido Rull (Harvard University), “Land Grant Painted Maps: Native Artists’ Agency and Defense of Communal Heritage in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”
• Kim Richter (University of California, Los Angeles, Fall), “Religion and Political Legitimacy: A Stylistic, Iconographic, and Contextual Analysis of Postclassic Huastec Sculpture”

Summer Fellows

• Lisa DeLeonardis (Johns Hopkins University), “Kamayuq in the Service of Capac and Crown”
• Eugenia Ibarra (University of Costa Rica), “Exploring Warfare and Slave Capturing on Period VI in Lower Central America”
• Matthew Looper (California State University, Chico), “Gender Performances in the Initial Series Group at Chichén Itzá”
• Victoria Lyall (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), “Picturing Place: Terminal Classic Mural Painting in the Northern Maya Lowlands”
• Federico Navarrete Linares (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), “Maya Conceptions of History in a Mesoamerican Perspective”
• Jorge Gamboa Velásquez (University of Montreal), “The Architecture of Social Encounters: Plazas and Platforms in the Southern Moche State”

  

2008–2009

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2008–2009 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

• Christopher Donnan (University of California, Los Angeles, Spring)

Fellows

• John W. Janusek (Vanderbilt University), “Pre-Columbian Urbanism in Comparative Perspective: Space, Society, and Long-Term Human-Landscape Relations”
• Antti Korpisaari (University of Helsinki), “Ethnic Diversity in the Tiwanaku Period (ca. 500–1100/1500 AD) South Central Andes”
• Michael W. Love (California State University, Northridge), “Early Social Complexity in Ancient Mesoamerica: Public and Private Perspectives”
• Stella Nair (University of California, Riverside), “Retreats without Surrender: The Architecture of Sanctuary at Chinchero, from Thupa 'Inka to the Spanish Occupation”
• Andrew K. Scherer (Baylor University), “Death and Burial among the Classic Maya”
• Verónica I. Williams (Instituto de Arqueología, University of Buenos Aires, Fall), “To the Edge of the Empire: The Dynamics of Inca Rule in the South Andes”

Summer Fellows

• Jessica Joyce Christie (East Carolina University), “The Sculpted Outcrops of the Inka”
• Justyna A. Olko-Bajer (University of Warsaw), “The Concept of Chichimec in Native Identity and Perception, Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Central Mexico”

 

2007–2008

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2007–2008 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

• María Teresa Uriarte (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Fellows

• Timothy Beach (Georgetown University), “Environmental History of the Maya Lowlands: Ecology, Sustainability, and Society from the Pleistocene to the Present”
• Charles Golden (Brandeis University), “Building Time: The Origins of Dynastic Kingship in the Maya Lowlands”
• Elizabeth Graham (University College London), “An Archaeological Perspective on the Colonial Encounter at Lamanai and Tipu”
• Stephen D. Houston (Brown University), “In the Land of the Turtle Lords: Classic Maya Civilization and Urban Life at Piedras Negras, Guatemala”
• Gordon F. McEwan (Wagner College), “The Archaeology of Inca Origins: A Study of Second Generation State Formation of the Andes”
• Alexei Vranich (University of Pennsylvania), “Architecture, Landscape, and the Archaic State”

Junior Fellow

• Alexandre Tokovinine (Harvard University, Spring), “The Power of Place: Landscape and Identity in Classic Maya Art, Architecture, and Inscriptions”

 

2006–2007

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2006–2007 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

• Joan Gero (American University), “Yutopian: The Formative Archaeology of Northwest Argentina”

Fellows

• Claude-François Baudez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Fall), “Mesoamerican Ballgames and their Victims”
• Thomas W. Killion (Wayne State University, Spring), “Mexico's Southern Gulf Coast Lowlands: Archaeology and Culture History”
• Ann H. Peters (Cornell University), “Paracas Necrópolis: Reconstructing Contextual Relationships”
• John W. Verano (Tulane University), “Trepanation in Ancient Peru”

Junior Fellows

• Byron Hamann (University of Chicago),“A New Codex of Yanhuitlán: Pre-Hispanic History and Inquisitorial Testimonies in the Mixteca Alta, ca. 950–1546”
• Ann Clair Seiferle-Valencia (Harvard University), “Unpainted Histories: Reconciling the Pictorial Manuscripts and Archaeology of Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, Mexico”

Summer Fellows

• Matthew Looper (California State University, Chico), “Ancient Maya Dance”
• Lorena del Carmen Rodas-Ramírez, “The Aesthetic Dimension and Individual Creation in Prehispanic Nahuatl Poetry”

  

2005–2006

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2005–2006 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholars

• Elizabeth H. Boone (Tulane University, Fall), “Painted Books and Indigenous Expression in Pre-Conquest and Early Colonial Mexico”
• Dean Snow (Pennsylvania State University, Fall), “The Other World: Archaeology of Ancient America”
• John W. Verano (Tulane University, Fall), “The Lady of El Brujo: Unwrapping the Mummy of a High Status Moche Female”

Fellows

• Scott Hutson (University of Kentucky), “Personhood, Dwelling, and Identity: A Relational Approach”
• Leonardo López Luján (Museo del Templo Mayor, INAH, Fall), “Awakening the Stones: The Beginnings of Pre-Columbian Archaeological Studies in Central Mexico”
• Saburo Sugiyama (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan), “Monuments and Dedicatory Burials at the Moon Pyramid of Teotihuacan: The Rise of Power and State Religion”

Junior Fellows

• Laura Filloy Nadal (Museo Nacional de Antropología, INAH, Spring), “Finery and Insignia of a Maya King of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico”
• Jeffrey C. Splitstoser, “Weaving the Structure of the Cosmos: Cloth and Agency at Cerrillos, a Paracas Site in the Ica Valley, Peru”

  

2004–2005

Fellow

• Jean-François Millaire (McGill University), “The Gallinazo: An Early Complex Cultural Tradition on the Peruvian North Coast”

Junior Fellows

• Miriam Doutriaux (University of California, Berkeley, Fall), “Politico-Economic Dynamics of Imperial Conquest in a Multiethnic Setting: The Inca Province of Collaguas”
• Patrick Hajovsky (University of Chicago), “On the Lips of Others: Fame and the Transformation of Moctezuma's Image”
• Sarah Jackson (Harvard University), “Deciphering Classic Maya Political Hierarchy: An Integrated Study of the Non-Royal Elite”
• Megan O'Neil (Yale University), “Making Visible History: Picturing the Past in Ancient Maya Sculpture”

  

2003–2004

Fellows

• James Louis Fitzsimmons (University of New Hampshire), “Classic Maya Satellites: Restoring Provenience to Looted Monuments of the Sierra de Lacandón, Guatemala”
• Bryan R. Just (Tulane University), “The Social Discourse of Style in Ninth-Century Maya Sculpture”
• Izumi Shimada (Southern Illinois University), “Sociopolitical History of the Pre-Hispanic North Coast of Peru”

Junior Fellow

• R. Jeffrey Frost (University of Wisconsin at Madison), “High Status Cemeteries and Socio-Political Organization in Late Pre-Columbian Costa Rica”

Summer Fellows

• Arabel Fernández Lopez (Instituto de Conservación y Restauración, Perú), “Defining Huari Textile Style in the Highland Core Area”
• Gabrielle Vail (New College of Florida), “Analysis and Commentary of Ritual Texts in the Maya Madrid Codex”

  

2002–2003

Fellows

• Gerardo Gutierrez-Mendoza, “Geopolitical Interpretation of the Codices of Azoyú and the Formation of the Kingdom of Tlapa-Tlachinollan, Mixteca Region of Guerrero”
• William H. Isbell (State University of New York at Binghamton [SUNY], Fall), “Tiwanaku: A New Perspective”
• Virginia Elizabeth Miller (University of Illinois at Chicago), “The Art and Architecture of Chichén Itzá”
• Emily Umberger (Arizona State University, Spring), “The Colonial Fate of the Aztec Kings”

Junior Fellow

• William L. Barnes (Tulane University), “Icons of Empire: Royal Presentation and the Conception of Rule in Aztec Mexico”

Summer Fellows

• Lori Boornazian Diel (Texas Christian University), “Aztec Pictorial Histories as Colonial Discourse”
• Billie J. A. Follensbee (Southwest Missouri State), “The Importance of Weaving among Formative Period Gulf Coast Cultures”
• Sara A. Morasch (Bryn Mawr College), “Dominican Architecture in Colonial Oaxaca”
• Andrei V. Tabarev (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk, Russia), “Prehistory of Meso- and South America: Lecture Courses and First Textbooks for Russian Universities”

  

2001–2002

Fellows

• George Lau (New Haven, Connecticut), “The Recuay Culture: Art and Architecture in the North Highlands of Peru”
• Carolyn Tate (Texas Tech University), “Gods, Cults, Shamans?: An Investigation of Olmec Spiritual Constructs and Practices”

Junior Fellows

• Allan L. Maca (Cambridge, Massachusetts), “A Conjunctive Approach to the Classic Maya City”
• Steven Wernke (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “An Andean Archaeo-History of Community and Landscape”

Summer Fellows

• Eugenia Ibarra (Universidad de Costa Rica), “Interethnic Relations in the Central American Caribbean Coast from Cabo Gracias a Dios in Honduras to Mosquito Bay in Panama during the Eighteenth Century”
• Rex Koontz (University of Houston), “Narrative and Performance at El Tajín, Veracruz, Mexico”

  

2000–2001

Fellows

• Héctor Leonel Escobedo Ayala (Universidad del Valle, Guatemala, Fall), “History and Dynastic Politics in a Classic Maya Capital: Investigations at Arroyo de Piedra, Guatemala”
• Mary Frame (Vancouver, British Columbia, Spring), “Textiles from the Vicinity of Lima during the Time of the Incas”
• Helen P. Pollard (Michigan State University, Fall), “From Periphery to Core: The Emergence of the Prehistoric Tarascan State (Mexico)”
• Daniel H. Sandweiss (University of Maine), “Origins and Development of Civilization on the Peruvian Coast”

Junior Fellows

• Linda Brown (University of Colorado, Boulder), “The Structure of Ritual Practice: An Ethnoarchaeological Investigation of Community Ritual Activity Areas in the Maya Highlands”
• Karla L. Davis-Salazar (Harvard University, Spring), “Society, Ideology, and Power: The Politics of Water Management at Classic Period Copán, Honduras”

Summer Fellows

• Martha Macri (University of California, Davis), “Completing the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project”
• Pia Mira Marika Tohveri (University College London), “Analyzing Color and Pattern as Cosmological Knowledge in Maya Textiles”
• Justyna A. Olko-Bajer (Warsaw University), “A Repertoire of Insignia and Gestures of Central Mexican Elites of the Late Postclassic and Early Colonial Periods: The Analysis of Local Conventions”

  

1999–2000

Fellows

• Vilma Fialko (Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala), “Maya Funerary Tradition at Tikal, Guatemala”
• Antonia E. Foias (Williams College), “History, Politics and Economics at the Classic Maya Center Motul de San José”

Junior Fellows

• Delia Annunziata Cosentino (University of California, Los Angeles), “Landscapes of Lineage: Nahua Pictorial Genealogies of Central Mexico”
• Karl James Lorenzen (University of California, Merced), “Ancient Rain Roads of the Americas: Water Ritual, Pilgrimage, and Ceremonial Procession in Pueblo, Aztec, Maya, and Andean Religion”

Summer Fellows

• Anna Blume (Fashion Institute of Technology), “Maya Interpretation of Saints”
• Ana Maria Falchetti (Bogotá, Colombia), “The Symbolic Power of Pre-Columbian Metallurgy”
• Régulo Gilberto Franco Jordán (Trujillo, Peru), “Investigaciones Arqueológicas en el Templo Viejo de Pachacamac, Costa Central del Perú (1986–1989)”
• Judith Storniolo (University of Pennsylvania), “A Historical and Comparative Linguistic Analysis of the Maya Codices”

  

1998–1999

Fellows

• Tamara L. Bray (Wayne State University), “The Art of Empire in the Andes: Form and Imagery of Imperial Inca Pottery”
• Warren B. Church (Yale University), “Culture Areas and Interaction Spheres in the Tropical Andean Cloud Forests of South America”
• Andrea Stone (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), “The Rock Art of Cerro de las Figuras, Lake Güija, El Salvador: Sacred Sites and the Mesoamerican Frontier”
• Karen E. Stothert (The University of Texas, San Antonio), “Ancestors: An Archaeology of Southwest Ecuador”

Junior Fellow

• Michael A. Ohnersorgen (Arizona State University), “Postclassic Social and Economic Organization in the Mesoamerican Gulf Lowlands: A View from the Provincial Capital of Cotaxtla, Veracruz, Mexico”

Summer Fellows

• Maury Hutcheson (State University of New York at Buffalo), “Contextualizing Maya Performance: Representation and Meaning”
• Arthur A. Joyce (Vanderbilt University), “The Oaxacans: Ancient Civilizations of Southern Mexico”

  

1997–1998

Fellows

• Jorge G. Marcos (Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos y Antropologicos, Guayaquil, Ecuador), “A Handbook for the Archaeology of Ecuador”
• Gabrielle Vail (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Fall), “Religion and Ideology in Postclassic Mesoamerica”

Junior Fellows

• William Saturno (University of New Hampshire), “The Nature and Development of Social Hierarchy at Río Amarillo: A Secondary Center, Copán Honduras”
• Jason Yaeger (University of Pennsylvania), “Interaction, Identity and Integration in Ancient Mesoamerican Communities”
• Eduardo de Jesús Douglas (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), “In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl: History and Painting in Early Colonial Tetzcoco”

Summer Fellows

• George Andrews (University of Oregon), “Pre-Columbian Elite Architecture”
• Susan Toby Evans (Pennsylvania State University), “Pre-Columbian Elite Architecture”
• Ernesto González Licón (Museo Nacional de Antropología, INAH, México), “Pre-Columbian Elite Architecture”
• William H. Isbell (State University of New York at Binghamton [SUNY]), “Pre-Columbian Elite Architecture”
• Joanne Pillsbury (National Gallery of Art), “Pre-Columbian Elite Architecture”
• David Webster (Pennsylvania State University), “Pre-Columbian Elite Architecture”

  

1996–1997

Fellows

• Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle (Copán Association, Honduras, Central America), “Early Classic Maya Cosmology and Kingship at Copán”
• Simon Martin (McCallum Kennedy D'Auria Ltd., London, England), “Comparative Research into the Structure and Operation of Mesoamerican Political Hegemonies”
• Dorie Reents-Budet (Duke University Museum of Art), “The Maya Ceramics Project”

Junior Fellow

• Adam Herring (Harvard University), “Studies in Classic Maya Sculpture”

  

1995–1996

Fellow

• Susan Toby Evans (Pennsylvania State University), “Aztec Palaces: Architecture and Authority in Ancient Mexico”

Junior Fellows

• Susan E. Bergh (Columbia University), “Middle Horizon Tapestries: A Problem of Identity”
• Oswaldo Chinchilla (Vanderbilt University), “Sociopolitical Organization of a Major Pre-Columbian Polity: A Study of Settlement Patterns, Sculptural Art, and Writing at Cotzumalguapa, Guatemala”
• J. Andrew Darling (University of Michigan), “Intersocietal Interaction and Complexity: Sociopolitical Evolution in Northern Mesoamerica”

Summer Fellows

• Monica L. Bellas (University of California, Riverside), “Female Mixtec Body Symbolism”
• William Doonan (Tulane University), “The Artifacts of Group 10L-1, Copan, Honduras: Variation in Material Culture and Behavior in an Elite Residential Compound”
• Nicholas J. Saunders (University College London), “Smoke and Mirrors: Tezcatlipoca, the Nature of an Aztec Diety”

  

1994–1995

Fellows

• Robert Haskett (University of Oregon), “The Eternal Altepetl: Concepts of Community and History in Cuernavaca's Primordial Titles”
• Frances Hayashida (University of Michigan), “Inka Artisans”

Junior Fellows

• Christopher Beekman (Vanderbilt University), “The Long-term Evolution of a Political Boundary: Archaeological Research in Jalisco, Mexico”
• Saburo Sugiyama (Arizona State University), “Human Sacrifices in Teotihuacan, Mexico: Symbolism and Social Implications”

Summer Fellows

• Elizabeth A. Newsome (University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire), “The Classic Maya Stela Cult: A Study in the Ideology of Power”
• Mari Carmen Serra Puche (Museo Nacional de Antropología, INAH, México), “The Formative Period in the Poblano-Tlaxcalteca Valley”
• David C. Wright (University of the Valley of Mexico), “Wrapping Up the Murals of Ixmiquilpan”

  

1993–1994

Fellows

• Catherine J. Allen (George Washington University), “Aesthetic Principles in Andean Art”
• James E. Brady (Vanderbilt University), “An Investigation of Maya Ritual Cave Use”
• Paul S. Goldstein (American Museum of Natural History), “Tiwanaku Hegemony and Peripheral Control”
• Dennis Tedlock (State University of New York at Buffalo), “Dance of the Trumpet: A Mayan Drama of Human Sacrifice”

Summer Fellows

• Nancy Gonlin (Kennesaw State College), “Classic Maya Architecture: Function and Meaning of the Variation in Low-Status Domestic Architecture of the Classic Maya”
• Stephen Houston (Brown University), “Classic Maya Architecture”
• Patricia A. McAnany (Boston University), “Classic Maya Architecture: Variation in Classic Maya Residential Architecture Outside of Epicentral Core Areas”
• Karl Taube (University of California, Riverside), “Classic Maya Architecture: The Role and Meaning of Teotihuacan Iconographic Programs in Classic Maya Architecture”
• David Webster (Pennsylvania State University), “Classic Maya Architecture: Comparative Implications”

  

1992–1993

Fellows

• Jerry D. Moore (California State University, Dominguez Hills), “New Approaches to the Study of Andean Architecture”
• Ruth Shady Solís (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú), “Investigaciones Arqueológicas sobre las Sociedades del Formativo en Bagua, Amazonas, Perú”

Junior Fellows

• Brian R. Billman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “The Evolution of Political Centralization in the Moche Valley, Peru”
• Mary Elizabeth Pye (Vanderbilt University), “The Olmec Iconographic System in Regional Perspective”

Summer Fellows

• Mary Frame (Vancouver, British Columbia), “Repeating Patterns on Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Garments”
• Anne Paul (Nancy, France), “Repeating Patterns on Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Garments”
• Patricia Joan Sarro (Youngstown State University), “The Function of Ornamentation at Tajín Chico, El Tajín, Mexico”

  

1991–1992

Fellows

• Cecilia F. Klein (University of California, Los Angeles), “Fighting with Femininity: Gender and War in Aztec Discourse”
• Patricia A. McAnany (Boston University), “The Economic Expression of Social Inequality Among the Classic Maya”
• Jeanette E. Sherbondy (Washington College), “Water in Inca Time, Space, and Thought”

Junior Fellows

• Kevin Johnston (Yale University, Spring), “The Hidden Maya: Late Classic Nonplatformed Residential Structures at Itzan, Guatemala”
• Dana Leibsohn (University of California, Los Angeles), “Mapping Memory: The Art of Nahua History”

Summer Fellows

• Antonio J. Fresco Gonzáles (Museum of the Banco Central del Ecuador), “El Quito de los Incas”
• Kevin Johnston (Yale University), “Hidden Houses of the Lowland Maya”
• Jeanette E. Sherbondy (Washington College), “Water in Inca Time, Space, and Thought”

  

1990–1991

Fellow

• John M. D. Pohl (University of California, Los Angeles), “The Codex Zouche-Nuttall”

Junior Fellows

• Heidy Fogel (Yale University), “A Comparative Study of the Gallinazo Occupations of the Viru and Moche Valleys, Peru”
• Barbara Mundy (Yale University), “The Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas of New Spain (1579–1586): Native Mapping in the Conquered Land”
• Javier Urcid (Yale University), “Hieroglyphic Writing at Monte Alban, Oaxaca”

Summer Fellows

• Charles M. Hastings (Central Michigan University), “Inka State: The Eastern Margins of Inka Imperialism in Central Peru”
• John V. Murra (Institute of Andean Research), “Inka State: The Inka State and Ethnic Señorios in Andean History”
• Franklin Pease (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Lima), “The Inka State and Ethnic Señoríos in Andean History”
• María Rostworowski (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Perú), “Inka State: Señoríos, Territories, and Frontiers”
• Inge R. Schjellerup (National Museum of Denmark), “Late Intermediate, Late Horizon, and Early Colonial Periods of the District of Chuquibamba, Province of Chachapoyas, Amazonas, Peru”
• John R. Topic (Trent University), “Pre-Columbian Summer Seminar, Inka State; Ethnogenesis in Huamachuco”

  

1989–1990

Fellows

• Peter Harrison (The University of New Mexico), “Spatial Geometry and Logic in the Ancient Maya Mind as Reflected in Monumental Architecture”
• Ross Hassig (Columbia University), “Warfare and the Mesoamerican Past”
• Ramiro Matos (Lima, Peru), “Pumpu: An Inca Regional Administrative City”
• Constanza Vega Sosa (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México), “Codice Azoyu 2: Historia y tributacíon en la provincia de Tlapa”

Junior Fellow

• Joanne Pillsbury (Columbia University), “Sculpted Friezes of the Empire of Chimor”

Summer Fellows

• Cynthia Kristan-Graham (Atlanta College of Art), “Portraits of Power: Images of Early Postclassic Rulership at Tula”
• Peter van der Loo (Northern Arizona University), “A Commentary on the Codex Cospi”

  

1988–1989

Fellows

• Louise M. Burkhart (Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne), “The Virgin's Transit: Disclosures of Marian Devotion in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature”
• Juan Pedro Laporte (University of San Carlos, Fall), “El período Clásico Tardío en Mundo Perdido, Tikal, y sus alrededores”
• Gair Tourtellot III (The University of New Mexico), “A Comparative Study of Ancient Maya Residencies”

Junior Fellows

• Bernd Fahmel-Beyer (Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM), “Monte Alban: Integración en una ciudad plural”
• Richard Wright (University of Virginia), “Art Historical and Archaeological Approaches to the Analysis of Artifactual Style in Formative Pre-Columbian Societies”

Summer Fellows

• Bruce Byland (Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York), “The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mixteca Alta”
• Carl Langeback (Universidad de los Andes), “Chiefdoms and Trade in Northeastern Colombia and Western Venezuela During the Sixteenth Century”
• John M. D. Pohl (University of California, Los Angeles), “The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mixteca Alta”
• Lorraine Williams-Beck (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), “Pre-Hispanic Settlement Systems in the Central Yucatan Peninsula: The Chenes Region Campeche, Mexico”

  

1987–1988

Fellows

• Norman Hammond (Rutgers University, Spring), “A Study of the Non-Monumental Art and Iconography of the Maya Pre-Classic”
• Sabine MacCormack (Stanford University), “Between Two Worlds: History and Society in Early Colonial Peru”
• Meredith Paxton (The University of New Mexico), “The Relación de las cosas de Yucatán: Influences on the Development of a Maya Ethnohistorical Source”
• Carolyn Tate (University of California, Los Angeles), “Costume, Ritual, and Political Interaction in the Classic Maya Lowlands”

Summer Fellows

• Dorie Reents-Budet (University of California, Santa Barbara), “The X-Ray and Pink Glyph Styles of Maya Polychrome Pottery: The Search for Artists, Meaning, and Provenience”
• Wendy Schonfeld (Columbia University), “Toward an Identification of the Telamones and Atlantes at Chichen Itza”

Summer Fellow (Junior)

• Virginia Fields (University of Texas, Austin), “A Synthesis of Early Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions”

  

1986–1987

Fellows

• Flora C. Clancy (The University of New Mexico), “The History of Maya Monumental Sculpture”
• Andrea Stone (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), “A Study of Cave Paintings and Petroglyphs from Naj Tunich, Guatemala”

Junior Fellows

• Bruce Love (University of California, Los Angeles), “A Commentary on the Paris Codex”
• Karl Taube (Yale University), “The Maya New Year Festival: A Study of Liminality and Renewal”

Summer Fellows

• Frances Berdan (California State University, San Bernardino), “Summer Research Seminar: Empire, Province and Village in Aztec History”
• Richard E. Blanton (Purdue University), “Summer Research Seminar: Empire, Province and Village in Aztec History”
• Mary Hodge (Getty Art History Information Program, Williams College), “Summer Research Seminar: Empire, Province and Village in Aztec History: Effects of Aztec Empire in the Valley of Mexico”
• Michael Smith (Loyola University of Chicago), “Summer Research Seminar: Empire, Province and Village in Aztec History: Social and Economic Interaction between the Aztec Core and the Morelos Provinces: Archaeology and Ethnohistory”
• Emily Umberger (Arizona State University), “Summer Research Seminar: Empire, Province and Village in Aztec History: Foreign, Hybrid, and Provincial Styles on the Aztec Horizon”

  

1985–1986

Fellow

• Emily Umberger (Arizona State University), “Aztec Sculptures, Hieroglyphs, and History”

Junior Fellows

• Stephen Houston (Yale University, Fall), “Dynastic Interaction Among the Classic Maya: An Epigraphic Reconstruction”
• Margaret G. H. MacLean (University of California, Berkeley), “Sacred Land, Sacred Water: Inca Landscape Planning in the Machu Picchu Area”
• Rebecca Rollins Stone (Yale University), “Color Patterning in Huari and Tiahuanaco Tapestry Tunics: The Andean Artist, A.D. 500–900”

Summer Fellow

• William H. Isbell (State University of New York at Binghamton [SUNY]), “Andean State Expansion in the Iconography of Huari and Tiwanaku”

 

1984/85

Fellows

• William H. Isbell (State University of New York at Binghamton [SUNY]), “A Prehistoric Andean State: The Nature of Huari”
• Patricia Netherly (University of Massachusetts), “Representation of Common Principles of Social and Political Organization in Central Andean Settlement, Pattern, and Artifacts”

Junior Fellows

• Abelardo Sandoval (State University of New York at Binghamton [SUNY]), “Architectural Continuity in Formative Ayacucho, Peru”

Summer Fellows

• Ellen T. Baird (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), “Summer Research Seminar: Cultural Adjustments after the Decline of Teotihuacan”
• Joseph W. Ball (San Diego State University), "Summer Research Seminar: Cultural Adjustments after the Decline of Teotihuacan”
• Janet Catherine Berlo (University of Missouri, St. Louis), “Summer Research Seminar: Cultural Adjustments after the Decline of Teotihuacan; The Decline of Teotihuacan and its Effect on the Highlands and Pacific Slopes of Guatemala”
• Richard Diehl (University of Missouri, Columbia), “Summer Research Seminar: Cultural Adjustments after the Decline of Teotihuacan”
• Jeff Karl Kowalski (Northern Illinois University), “Summer Research Seminar: Cultural Adjustments after the Decline of Teotihuacan”

  

1983–1984

Junior Fellows

• Christopher Couch (Columbia University), “The Illustrations of the Durán Group of Manuscripts”
• David Stuart (Bethesda–Chevy Chase High School [Graduate]), “Ancient Maya Writing”
• Steven A. Wegner (University of California, Berkeley), “A Stylistic Study of Recuay Stone Sculpture”

Summer Fellows

• Federico Kauffman-Doig (Universidad Federico Villarreal), “Chavín Stone Catalogue and Iconography”
• Debra Nagao (Columbia University), “The Murals of Cacaxtla: Late Classic Eclecticism in Mesoamerica”
• Amy Oakland (University of Texas, Austin), “The Huari Tapestry Shirts in the Collection of Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.”

  

1982–1983

Fellow

• David A. Freidel (Southern Methodist University), “Pre-Classic Art and Architecture at Cerros: A Lowland Maya Center in Belize”

Junior Fellow

• Carl P. Beetz (University of Pennsylvania), “Illustration at Dumbarton Oaks for Monuments of Piedras Negras, Guatemala”

Summer Fellows

• Ferdinand Anders (Leiden University), “The Manuscripts of the Borgia Group Summer Seminar”
• John B. Carlson (University of Maryland), “The Manuscripts of the Borgia Group Summer Seminar”
• Virginia Elizabeth Miller (University of Vienna), “The Manuscripts of the Borgia Group Summer Seminar”
• H. B. Nicholson (University of California, Los Angeles), “The Manuscripts of the Borgia Group Summer Seminar”
• Edward B. Sisson (University of Mississippi), “The Manuscripts of the Borgia Group Summer Seminar”
• Peter van der Loo (University of Leiden and Amsterdam), “The Manuscripts of the Borgia Group Summer Seminar”

 

1981–1982

Fellows

• John S. Justeson (University of South Carolina), “Comparative Studies of Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing”
• Virginia Elizabeth Miller (University of Texas, Austin), “The Stucco Frieze at Acancéh, Yucatán”

Summer Fellow

• Mario A. Rivera (Universidad de Chile), “Prehistory of the Meridional Andean Area”

 

1980–1981

Fellows

• Richard Burger (University of California, Berkeley), “The Ideologies and Religious Styles of the Central Coast Ceremonial Network, the Northern Ceremonial Network, and the Chavin Cult”
• Richard L. Luxton

  

1979–1980

Junior Fellows

• Mary Ellen Miller (Yale University), “The Murals of Bonampak”
• Anne Paul (University of Texas, Austin), “An Interpretation of Paracas Textile Iconography”

  

1978–1979

Bliss Fellow

• Richard F. Townsend (University of Texas, Austin), “Tenochtitlan and the Valley of Mexico: Time and Space in Urban Symbolism”

Fellow

• Alan Louis Kolata (Harvard University), “Tree Symbolism in Ancient Mesoamerica”
• Richard F. Townsend

Junior Fellow

• Flora C. Clancy (Yale University), “A Formal Analysis of the Compositions and Carving Styles Found on Classic Maya Monuments”

  

1977–1978

Fellow

• Sabine MacCormack

Junior Fellow

• Jeff K. Kowalkski (Yale University)

Visiting Scholar

• Floyd Lounsbury (Yale University)

  

1976–1977

Junior Fellow

• Carlos B. Arostegui (Yale University), “The Iconography of the Mixtec Codices: The Personal Names”

 

1975–1976

Junior Fellow

• Linda Schele (University of South Alabama)

Visiting Scholar

• Robert L. Rands (Southern Illinois University, Fall)

 

1974–1975

Bliss Fellow (Junior)

• Barbara Braun (Columbia University, Fall), “A Study of the Death Imagery of Santa Lucia Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala, in the Middle Classic Horizon”

Fellow

• Rosemary Sharp (Ripon College), “Greca: An Exploratory Study of Relationships between Art, Society, and Personality”

Junior Fellow

• Peter David Joralemon (Yale University), “Corpus, Analysis, and Study of the Evolution of the Olmec Art Style”

 

1973–1974

Visiting Scholar

• Floyd Lounsbury (Yale University)

  

1972–1973

Bliss Fellow

• Joyce Marcus (Harvard University), “A Reconstruction of the Socio-Political Structure of the Classic Maya with Inferences Drawn from the Iconography and Epigraphy”

  

1971–1972

Bliss Fellow

• Chiaki Kano (University of Gakushuin & The University of Tokyo), “A Typological and Functional Study of Stone Artifacts in the Formative Period in the Andes; A Comparative Study of Ceramic Cultures in Mesoamerica and the Andes in the Formative Period; and The Development of the Pre-Chavín Culture in the Central Highlands of Peru and its relationship to the Chavín Culture”

Bliss Fellow (Junior)

• S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson (Tulane University)

Visiting Fellow

• Arthur Miller

 

1970–1971

Bliss Fellow

• Arthur Miller (Yale University), “A Systematic Study of the Iconography of Teotihuacán Mural Painting”