Results for "The Mesoamerica Center"

The Mesoamerica Center at UT-Austin aims to facilitate knowledge and learning about the indigenous cultures and peoples of what is now Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador. Its primary focus is on the arts, languages, and archaeology of Mesoamerican civilizations. Based in the Department of Art and Art History, the Center aims to foster communication and interchange among many academic units on campus, highlighting the interdisciplinary strengths of many faculty and students at UT Austin. It also aims to share our varied research and activities with the UT community and the wider interested public.

Website: http://www.utmesoamerica.org/

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Faculty

Julia Guernsey

Affiliated Departments:
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Art and Art History
Research Interests:

Mesoamerican art, archaeology, and culture history; ancient Olmec, Maya, and Aztec visual culture; the relationship between art and power in ancient societies; the relationship between art and state formation

Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría

Affiliated Departments:
Anthropology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Research Interests:

Archaeology; history; ethnohistory; Mesoamerica; the Spanish empire in Latin America; Mexico; Puerto Rico; archaeometry (INAA and LA-ICP-MS); colonialism; religious conversion; and food

Astrid Runggaldier

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Art and Art History
Research Interests:

Mesoamerican and Maya archaeology and anthropology; Maya architecture, households, and built environments; landscape archaeology; archaeological ceramics, and pottery ethnoarchaeology; material culture theory, and…

David S Stuart

Affiliated Departments:
Anthropology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Art and Art History
Research Interests:

Mesoamerican art history, archaeology and epigraphy, with a focus on ancient Maya civilization

Fred Valdez

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Anthropology, Center for Mexican American Studies, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Research Interests:

Archaeology; Texas and Mesoamerica; social systems; material culture; field methodologies; origin & demise of complex societies.
The study of material culture such as ceramic and lithic technologies,…