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Geoffrey G. McCafferty |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY • Calgary, Alberta, Canada | |
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Geoffrey G. McCafferty |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY • Calgary, Alberta, Canada | |
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Education
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Teaching |
Awards
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| Education |
1984 - 1992
Anthropology, MA 1989; Ph.D. 1993
State University of New York, Binghamton,
NY
1973 - 1976
Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology;
A.B. 1976
University of California, Berkeley, CA
1971 - 1972
Anthropology
Universidad de las Américas, Cholula,
Puebla, Mexico
| Research Interests |
Cultural
identity in complex societies| Teaching Experience (selected) |
1999 - Present
Assistant Professor
Department of Archaeology, University
of Calgary, Calgary, AB
Courses taught:
1996 - 1997
Visiting Lecturer
Department of Art History, University
of Connecticut, Storrs
1992 - 1997
Instructor/Assistant Professor
Brown University, Providence, RI
| Awards & Grants (selected) |
under review Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant Exploring Nahua Ethnicity in Pre-Columbian Rivas, Nicaragua to support archaeological research and analysis. Rivas, Nicaragua.
2001 Innovation and Science Grant (Research Infrastructure stream) for the project Creation of a Multidisciplinary 3 Dimensional Morphometrics Centre (with Benedikt Halmgrisson and Kathryn Reese-Taylor). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
2000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Conference Grant to fund travel and expenses for the 33rd Chacmool Conference Art for Archaeology's Sake: Material Culture and Style across the Disciplines. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
2000 University Research Grant (Social Sciences and Humanities) to support the 33rd Chacmool Conference "Art for Archaeology's Sake: Material Culture and Style Across the Disciplines." University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
2000 URGS Starter Grant to support archaeological investigations at Rivas, Nicaragua; University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
1999 Special Projects Grant to fund travel expenses for keynote speaker, Dr. Sarah Nelson (University of Denver), for the Gender Research Symposium 2000; University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
1999 Research Excellence Endowment to purchase computer equipment and fund travel to Nicaragua in preparation of field investigations; University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
1997 Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI) grant to support excavations at the Patio of the Carved Skulls, Cholula, Mexico.
1995 Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantship grant to fund a student assistant for the Origins of Writing module of the PROLARTI Program for the Language and Art Interface CD-ROM project; Brown University, Providence, RI.
1994 Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantship grant to fund students participating in summer excavations in Cholula, Puebla; Brown University, Providence, RI.
1993 Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantship grant to fund students participating in summer excavations in Cholula, Puebla; Brown University, Providence, RI.
1993 Odyssey Grant to support collaborative research (with Marcia Quiñones) on historical representations of La Malinche; Brown University, Providence, RI.
1992-1994 Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Art History and Archaeology, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, Providence, RI.
1987-1992 Numerous grants for Cultural Resource Management studies through the Public Archaeology Facility, SUNY Binghamton, including funding from the New York Department of Transportation, City of Binghamton, and Town of Owego.
| Publications |
2000 Textile Production in Postclassic Cholula, Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Ancient Mesoamerica 11: 39-54.
2000 Tollan Cholollan and the Legacy of Legitimacy during the Classic/Postclassic Transition. In Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs, edited by D. Carrasco, L. Jones, and S. Sessions, pp. 341-367. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
2000 The Cholula Massacre: Factional Histories and Archaeology of the Spanish Conquest. In The Entangled Past: Integrating History and Archaeology, edited by Matthew Boyd, John C. Erwin, and Mitch Hendrickson, pp. 347-359. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
2000 "Archaic Hunter-Gatherers," "Origins of Farming," "Formative Period Mesoamerica," "Classic Highland Civilizations," "Maya States of Central America," "The Postclassic Transformation," and "The Aztecs of Central Mexico." In The Atlas of World Archaeology, edited by Paul G. Bahn. Time-Life Books, London, UK.
2000 "The Olmec ‘Fort Knox'," "Tomb 7: Shrine of a Mixtec Goddess," and "The Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza." In Wonderful Things: Uncovering the World's Great Archaeological Treasures, edited by Paul Bahn. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, UK.
1999 The Metamorphosis of Xochiquetzal: A Window on Womanhood in Pre- and Post-Conquest Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology, edited by T. Sweely, pp. 103-125. Routledge Press, London, UK.
1998 Spinning and Weaving as Female Gender Identity in Post-Classic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Reader in Gender Archaeology, edited by Kelley Hays-Gilpin and David S. Whitley, pp. 213-230. Routledge, London, UK.
1996 The Ceramics and Chronology of Cholula, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 7(2):299-323.
1996 Reinterpreting the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 7(1):1-17.
1994 The Conquered Women of Cacaxtla: Gender Identity or Gender Ideology? (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Ancient Mesoamerica 5(2):159-172.
1994 The Mixteca-Puebla Stylistic Tradition at Early Postclassic Cholula. In Mixteca-Puebla: Discoveries and Research in Mesoamerican Art and Archaeology, edited by H.B. Nicholson and E. Quiñones Keber, pp. 53-78. Labyrinthos Press, Culver City, CA.
1994 Engendering Tomb 7 at Monte Albán, Oaxaca: Respinning an Old Yarn (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Current Anthropology 35(2):143-166.
1994 Reply to Flannery and Marcus' "On the Perils of 'Politically Correct' Archaeology" (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Current Anthropology 35(4):442-445.
1993 Review of Chimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco (1991), by Susan Schroeder. American Antiquity 58 (4):763.
1992 Review of Un entierro del clasico superior en Cholula, Puebla (1985), by Sergio Suárez Cruz, and Ultimos descubrimientos de entierros postclasicos en Cholula, Puebla (1989), by Sergio Suárez Cruz. American Antiquity 57(2):378-379.
1991 Spinning and Weaving as Female Gender Identity in Post-Classic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes: An Anthology, edited by M.B. Schevill, J.C. Berlo, and E. Dwyer, pp. 19-44. Garland Publishing, New York and London. Republished by University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 1994.
1988 Powerful Women and the Myth of Male Dominance in Aztec Society (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Archaeological Review from Cambridge 7(1):45-59.
In preparation:
The Ceramics of Postclassic Cholula, Mexico. Manuscript accepted for publication in the Vanderbilt University Publications in Anthropology monograph series.
Handspinning in Pre-Columbian Mexico: Functional and Symbolic Analyses of Archaeological Spindle Whorls from Postclassic Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Manuscript under review at the Institute of Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
Powerful Women of Ancient Oaxaca (with Sharisse D. McCafferty and Byron Hamann). Manuscript accepted for publication in The Foundations of Power in Prehispanic Oaxaca, edited by A. Joyce and H. Orr. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK.
"Gender" and "Cholula, Mexico." In The Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Susan Toby Evans and David L. Webster. Garland Publishing, New York, NY.
Cholula. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, edited by David Carrasco, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
Mountain of Heaven, Mountain of Earth: The Great Pyramid of Cholula as Sacred Landscape. Manuscript to be included in Space, Power, and Poetics in Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by Rex Koontz and Kathryn Reese-Taylor.
Nuevas (y viejas) ideas sobre el epiclásico en Cholula. Manuscript under review for Memorias de la Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Ethnic Conflict in Postclassic Cholula, Mexico. Manuscript accepted for publication in Warfare and Conflict in Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by Katherine Brown and Travis Stanton. University of Alabama Press.
Questioning a Queen? A Gender-Informed Evaluation of Monte Alban's Tomb 7 (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Manuscript under review for The Quest for Queens: Powerful Women in Antiquity, edited by Sarah Nelson. Altamira Press.
So What Else is New? A Cholula-centric Perspective on Lowland/Highland Interaction in the Classic/ Postclassic Transition. Manuscript under review for Rethinking Tula, Tollan, and Chichen Itza, edited by Cynthia Kristan-Graham and Jeff Kowalski. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
| Conferences & Symposia Organized (selected) |
2000 Art for Archaeology's Sake: Material Culture and Style Across the Disciplines. The 33rd Annual Chacmool Conference. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
2000 Engendering the Past: Archaeological Perspectives on Mesoamerican Gender. Gender Research Symposium 2000, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
1999 The Feathered Serpent as Political Currency during the Classic/Postclassic Transition (with Rex Koontz). Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL.
1999 The Archaeology of Historic Newport (with James Garman). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, RI.
1998 The Classic/Postclassic Transition in Central Mexico. Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA.
1997 Liminal States: Central Mesoamerica during the Classic/Postclassic Transition (with Rex Koontz). University of Texas Maya Meetings, Austin, TX.
1996 Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspectives on Culture Contact. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Plymouth, NH.
1994 Northeastern States Mesoamerican Conference. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI:
1994 Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Archaeology. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Geneseo, NY.
1993 Cholula Exposed: Recent Investigations and Reinterpretations at the Pre-Columbian Urban Center (with Ruben Mendoza). 13th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico.
1990 The Engendered Subject: Practice and Representation in Mesoamerica (with Veronica Kann). American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.
1990 Research and Theory in New York State Cultural Resource Management (with Nina M. Versaggi). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Burlington, VT.
1989 The Archaeology of Social Process and Rural Economy in Nineteenth Century Central New York. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada.
1988 Feminist Theory in Anthropology (with Lynn Clark). Department of Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY.
1986 Mesa Redonda sobre la Cerámica Postclásica de Cholula (with Michael D. Lind). Universidad de las Américas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.
| Presentations (selected) |
2000 Pomp and Circumstance at a Pre-Columbian City: Ethnohistoric Perspectives on Ancient Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
2000 The Spinden Manuscript Fragment: A New Page in Mixtec History (with Sharisse D. McCafferty and David H. Kelley). American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
2000 The Meaning of the Mixteca-Puebla Stylistic Tradition on the Southern Periphery of Mesoamerica: The View from Nicaragua (with Larry Steinbrenner). Art for Archaeology's Sake: Style and Material Culture across the Disciplines (Chacmool Conference), University of Calgary, AB.
2000 Costume as Communication in the Mixtec Codices (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Art for Archaeology's Sake: Style and Material Culture across the Disciplines (Chacmool Conference), University of Calgary, AB.
2000 Alternative and Ambiguous Gender Identities in Postclassic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA.
2000 So What Else is New? A Cholula-centric Perspective on Lowland/Highland Interaction in the Classic/ Postclassic Transition. In Rethinking Tula, Tollan, and Chichen Itza. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.
2000 Introduction to Engendering the Past: Archaeological Perspectives on Mesoamerican Gender. Gender Research Symposium 2000. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
2000 Alternative and Ambiguous Gender Identities in Postclassic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Gender Research Symposium 2000. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
2000 Engendering the Past: Malintzin and the Conquest of Mexico. In The Indigenous-European Encounter in Conquest Era Spanish America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
1999 Questioning a Queen? A Gender-Informed Evaluation of Monte Alban's Tomb 7 (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
1999 Reading the Fine Print about Quetzalcoatl at Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL.
1999 Tickle Your Fancy: Feather Spinning and Textile Production in Postclassic Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL.
1999 The Irish in Historic Newport: Excavations at the St. Joseph's Parish Church (with Kimberly Simmons). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, RI.
1999 Consumer Choice in the Yard Middens of the Baker House, Warren, RI (with Akeia Bowman). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, RI.
1999 Conspicuous Consumption at the Lawrence "Orchard House" (with John Hopeck). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, RI.
1999 Ancient Identity as Revealed Through Tlatilco Mortuary Ritual (with Nicole Chalfant). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, RI.
1998 Nuevas (y Viejas) Ideas sobre el Epiclásico de Cholula, Puebla. Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, San Luís Potosi, Mexico.
1998 Discussant for The Archaeology of Race and Ethnicity: The Making of Social and Historical Categories. Conference on New England Archaeology, Old Sturbridge Village, MA.
1998 Stamp Bottom Bowls and the Origins of the Mixteca-Puebla Style at Cholula, Puebla (with Jane Spencer and Sergio Suarez Cruz). Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA.
1998 Cholula and the Legacy of Legitimacy. Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
1997 The Cholula Massacre: Factional Histories and Archaeology of the Spanish Conquest. Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1997 Engendering the Conquest: Malintzin in the Light of Ethnohistorical Archaeology. Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK.
1997 Cholula and the Art of International Relations. University of Pennsylvania Maya Weekend, Philadelphia, PA.
1997 Ethnicity and the Classic/Postclassic Transition in the Puebla/Tlaxcala Valley Postclassic Cholula. Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, TN.
1997 Giants, Tyrants, and Toltecs: Ethnic Factionalism and Change in Classic/Postclassic Cholula. Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
1997 Sherds of Thought: Archaeological and Art Historical Approaches to Pre-Columbian Ceramics. College Art Association, New York, NY.
1996 Discussant for Metaphor in Mesoamerican Language and Symbolism. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
1996 As the Whorl Turns: Spinning and Weaving as Metaphors for Female World-View (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
1996 The Rome of Anahuac: Change and Continuity at Classic and Postclassic Cholula. The Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Templo Mayor, Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project Conference, Princeton, NJ.
1996 Malintzin/Malinche: A Parable of Culture Contact. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Plymouth, NH.
1995 Snapshots of Ancient Mesoamerica: The Herbert Spinden Photographic Archive. Northeastern States Mesoamerican Conference, Amherst, MA.
1995 Moderator/Discussant for Descending the Ivory Tower: Optimizing the Involvement of and Benefits to our Host Communities. Northeastern States Mesoamerican Conference, Amherst, MA.
1995 The Feast of the Water Tamales as Ritual Performance at Postclassic Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1995 Historical Perspectives on Mesoamerican Research: The Herbert Spinden Photographic Archive (with Joshua A. Bell). American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1995 Weapons of the Weak?: Spinning and Weaving Tools in Postclassic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, MN.
1995 The Classic/Postclassic Transition at Cholula: Recent Investigations at the Great Pyramid (with Sergio Suárez Cruz). Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, MN.
1995 Respinning Tomb 7 at Monte Albán, Oaxaca (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, NV.
1995 Powerful Women in Pre-Columbian Mixtec Society (with Sharisse D. McCafferty and Byron Hamann). Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, NV.
1995 Weapons of Resistance: Spinning and Weaving Tools as Material Metaphors of Gender Discourse (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). RATS (Radical Archaeological Theory) conference, Providence, RI.
1994 Powerful Women of Pre-Columbian Oaxaca (with Sharisse D. McCafferty and Byron Hamann). American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA.
1994 Preliminary Results from the Patio of the Carved Skulls, Cholula, Mexico. Northeastern States Mesoamerican Conference, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI.
1994 The Metamorphosis of Xochiquetzal: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). 3rd Archaeology and Gender Conference, Boone, NC.
1994 Cholula and Teotihuacan in the Early Classic Period: Recent Investigations at the Transito Site (R106) (with Sergio Suárez Cruz and Martin Dudek). Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA.
1994 Tlachihualtepetl: The Great Pyramid of Cholula as Sacred Landscape (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA.
1994 The R-106 Salvage Project: A Classic Period House from Cholula, Mexico (with Sergio Suárez C., Martin Dudek, Joshua Bell, Jennifer Kimpton, Sharisse D. McCafferty, and Erik Stowers). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Geneseo, NY.
1994 Discussant for Gender and Ethnicity in Archaeology. RATS (Radical Archaeological Theory) conference, Binghamton, NY.
1994 Mountain of Heaven, Mountain of Earth: The Great Pyramid of Cholula as Axis Mundi (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). College Art Association, New York, NY.
1993 Textile Production in Pre-Columbian Cholula, Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1993 The Archaeology of Cholula, Mexico. American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1993 Introducción: El Enigma de Cholula Prehispanica (with Ruben Mendoza). International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico.
1993 Una Unidad Domestica del Postclásico Temprano en Cholula, Puebla. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico.
1993 La Gran Pirámide de Cholula: Una Reinterpretación. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico.
1993 Textile Production in Postclassic Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico.
1992 Reinterpreting the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
1992 The Ceramics of Postclassic Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, PA.
1992 Engendering Tomb 7 at Monte Alban, Oaxaca: Respinning an Old Yarn (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, PA.
1991 Contextual Archaeology of Domestic Compounds from Postclassic Cholula, Mexico. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
1991 The Conquered Women of Cacaxtla: Gender Identity or Gender Ideology (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, LA.
1991 The Mixteca-Puebla Stylistic Tradition at Early Postclassic Cholula. International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, LA.
1990 Gender Ideologies and Practice in Pre-Columbian Central Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.
1990 Ungendered Subjects: Ambiguity and Deviance in Postclassic Central Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.
1990 Contact Archaeology and the Built Environment at an Early Historic Period Site near Canandaigua Lake, NY. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Burlington, VT.
1990 The Binghamton Mall Project: Preliminary Results and Future Objectives (with Nina M. Versaggi and Lon E. Bulgrin). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Burlington, VT.
1989 Weapons of Resistance: Material Metaphors of Gender Identity in Postclassic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1989 Xochiquetzal, Aztec Patroness of the Arts and Icon of Womanhood (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Conference The Goddess as Muse to Woman Artists, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY.
1989 Out of Mexico: Migration Legends of the Nicarao of Central America (with John Hoopes). Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.
1989 Introduction: Research Design, Data Sets, and Interpretations for Nineteenth Century Central New York. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada.
1989 Halseyville: The Vision of a Rural Industrial Community. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada.
1989 Ethnic Identity in the Material Culture of Postclassic Cholula, Mexico. Society for Historical Archaeology, Baltimore, MD.
1988 Powerful Women and the Myth of Male Dominance in Aztec Society (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Albany, NY.
1988 The Rise and Decline of a Rural Industrial Village in Central New York: A Case Study from Alpine, NY. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Albany, NY.
1987 Mexican Spinning and Weaving as Female Gender Identity (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Conference Costume as Communication: Current Issues in Ethnographic Cloth and Costume from Middle America and the Central Andes of South America, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, RI.
1986 The Material Culture of Early Postclassic Cholula and the 'Mixteca-Puebla' Problem. Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.
| Technical Reports (selected) |
1994 Rescate Arqueológico R106 en Cholula, Puebla: Un Conjunto Habitacional de la Epoca Clásica (with Sergio Suárez Cruz). Report submitted to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro Regional de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
1990 The Binghamton Town Mall: Preliminary Cultural Resource Survey and Mitigation Proposal (with Nina M. Versaggi and Lon E. Bulgrin). Report submitted to the City of Binghamton, NY, and the State Historic Preservation Office, Albany, NY.
1989 PIN 6300.05; A Paragraph 3 Cultural Resource Survey of Route 245 in the Town of Italy, Yates County, NY; with Paragraph 4 Site Examinations of the Hi Tor site (SUBi 1222) and the Mower/Drake site (SUBi 1223). Report submitted to the Division of Historical and Anthropological Services, New York State Museum, Albany, NY.
1989 Stage I and II Cultural Resource Survey of Foster Island, Elmira, NY; with description of the Foster Island Civil War Prison Camp. Report submitted to the Department of Environmental Conservation, Avon, NY.
1989 PIN 6019.11.121; A Paragraph 3 Cultural Resource Survey of Route 289 between Mecklenburg and Perry City, Schuyler County, NY (with Lon E. Bulgrin). Report submitted to the Division of Historical and Anthropological Services, New York State Museum, Albany, NY.
1989 PIN 6751.67; Supplemental Site Examinations at Swan Hill Road, Village of Alpine, Town of Catharine, Schuyler County, NY. Report submitted to the Division of Historical and Anthropological Services, New York State Museum, Albany, NY.
1988 PIN 3047.17.121; A Cultural Resource Survey of Halseyville, Town of Ulysses, Tompkins County, NY (with contributions by Thomas Besom, Lon E. Bulgrin, Cynthia Carrington, Lynn Clark, Timothy Jones, and Dienje M.E. Kenyon). Report submitted to the Division of Historical and Anthropological Services, New York State Museum, Albany, NY.
1988 Ceramics of Postclassic Cholula: Analysis of the UA-1 Midden Assemblage. Report submitted to the Archaeology Laboratory, Universidad de las Américas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.
1987 PIN 6751.67; A Cultural Resource Survey of Swan Hill Road at Cayuta Creek, Village of Alpine, Town of Catharine, Schuyler County, NY. Report submitted to the Division of Historical and Anthropological Services, New York State Museum, Albany, NY.
1987 PIN 8914.17.101; A Cultural Resource Management Survey of Properties Associated with Stewart International Airport, Orange County, NY. Volume 12: Paragraph 4 Examination of the New Road Prehistoric and Wilken's Pond Prehistoric Sites (with Lynn Clark and Alan Beauregard). Report submitted to the Division of Historical and Anthropological Services, New York State Museum, Albany, NY.
1987 Preliminary Report of Analysis of Materials from the UA-1 House Floors, Cholula, Puebla. Report on file at the Department of Anthropology, Universidad de las Américas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.
1985 Reporte Preliminar de Estudios sobre UA-1, Cholula, Puebla. Report submitted to the Centro Regional de Puebla (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia), Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
1984 A Middle Formative Midden Deposit from San Andrés Cholula, Puebla. Report submitted to the Centro Regional de Puebla (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia), Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
| Public Lectures (selected) |
2000 Recent Investigations into the Archaeology of Rivas, Nicaragua. Public lecture for the Alberta Archaeological Society, Calgary, AB.
2000 When Money Grew on Trees: Economics in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (with Marc Zender). Public lecture for the Nickle Art Museum, University of Calgary, AB
2000 Investigaciones Arqueológicos en Rivas, Nicaragua. Public lecture at the Museo Regional de Rivas, sponsored by the Universidad Politécnica de Nicaragua, Rivas, NI.
2000 Engendering the Mesoamerican Past: Case Studies from Cacaxtla and Monte Albán. Public lecture for the Southern Alberta Archaeological Society, Medicine Hat, AB.
2000 Relaciones Internacionales en el Mundo Prehispanico entre México y Nicaragua. Public lecture at the Palacio Nacional, Managua, Nicaragua.
1998 Recent Investigations at the Great Pyramid of Cholula. Public lecture for the Warren Preservation Society, Warren, RI.
1995 El Nuevo Amanecer/The New Dawn. Consultant and inaugural speaker for Latino Youth for the Arts mural project, Providence, RI.
1994 Objects and Images of Mesoamerica. Public lecture and museum tour for the Narragansett Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Bristol, RI.
1993 Recent Investigations at Ancient Cholula, Mexico. Public lecture for the Museum of Primitive Art and Culture, Peace Dale, RI.
1993 Malintzin, La Malinche, and Gender Relations in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Public lecture for Native American Week, Brown University, Providence, RI.
1993 "LM 100: The Encounter of Two Worlds": An Interdisciplinary Approach to Building a New Curriculum. Participation in plenary session for the Center for the Advancement of College Teaching, Brown University, Providence, RI.
1993 Archaeology of Cholula: the Rome of Anahuac (central Mexico). Public lecture for the Narragansett Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, Providence, RI.
1993 Gender Relations among the Aztecs of Mexico. Panel presentation for the research roundtable Gender in Pre-Columbian Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
1992 Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Owego, NY (with Nina M. Versaggi). Public lecture for Archaeology Week for the New York Archaeological Council, Owego, NY.
1990 Preliminary Results from the Binghamton Mall Excavations, Binghamton, NY. Public lecture for the Triple Cities Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association, Vestal, NY.
1988 The Archaeology of Cholula, Mexico. Public lecture for the Triple Cities Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association, Vestal, NY.
1986-1998 Lectures on archaeology and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to elementary and junior high school groups in New York and Rhode Island.
| Archaeological Practice (selected) |
2000 Excavation and artifact analysis of Santa Isabel A (RI 44), a Sapoa/Ometepe period site in Rivas, Nicaragua.
2000 Excavation and artifact analysis of La Arenera, a Tempisque period site in Managua, Nicaragua.
1998 Excavation and artifact analysis of sites from Newport (Redwood Library, Lawrence Orchard House, and St. Joseph's Church) and Warren (Baker House), RI; with the SRU Archaeological Field Methods Class and the Salve Weekend Archaeology Troupe.
1997 (summer) Laboratory analysis of archaeological materials from Postclassic Cholula at the Museo del Sitio, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico; with Sergio Suárez Cruz.
1993-1996 Organization and curation of the Spinden Photographic Archive of approximately 30,000 late 19th and early 20th century photographs and illustrations relating to Herbert J. Spinden's research into Mesoamerican art and archaeology; Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Bristol, RI.
1995-1996 Senior Consultant and Co-Producer for the MESOLORE Origins of Mesoamerican Writing module of the PROLARTI Program on the Language/Art Interface CD-ROM project; with Elizabeth Bakewell, Brown University, Providence, RI.
1994 (summer) Excavation and analysis of Epiclassic elite residential complex associated with the Patio of the Carved Skulls, located on the northeast platform of the Great Pyramid, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico; with Sergio Suárez Cruz, Centro Regional de Puebla, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
1993 Museum exhibition "Objects and Images from Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica" with students from the Museum studies class (HA 189), Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI.
1993 (summer) Excavation and analysis of Early Classic period house and associated remains, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico; with Sergio Suárez Cruz, Centro Regional de Puebla, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
1984-1992 Cultural resource surveys in New York state with the Public Archaeology Facility, SUNY Binghamton; includes work as crew member, crew chief, and field director. Supervisory experience includes: multi-component prehistoric and historic sites in downtown Binghamton and Owego, NY; residential, commercial, and rural industrial sites in Alpine and Halseyville, NY; the Foster Island Civil War prison camp in Elmira, NY; a stratified Late Archaic site and a Contact period house site in Italy, NY; an early/mid 19th century rural Quaker community in Mecklenburg-Perry City, NY; historic and prehistoric sites at Stewart International Airport, Newburgh, NY; and a 12-mile linear pipeline corridor with 50+ prehistoric sites in Schoharie and Albany counties.
1989 and 1991 Directed archaeological investigations at the Quarry Farm site (Elmira, NY), the summer residence of author Mark Twain, Elmira, NY; with the Elmira College archaeological field project and the Center for Mark Twain Studies.
1987-8 Administrative Assistant for the Public Archaeology Facility, SUNY Binghamton; included payroll, billing, and cost accounting.
1982-7 Analysis of Postclassic ceramics and related material culture from the UA-1 and UA-79 excavations on the campus of the Universidad de las Américas, Cholula, Puebla - with Dr. Michael Lind and Dr. David Peterson.
1984 Excavation of a Late Formative irrigation canal at Amalucan, Puebla, and subsequent ceramic analysis - with Dr. Melvin Fowler, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
1981-4 Coordinated a project designed to identify archaeological resources within the urban zone of Cholula. Included surface reconnaissance, inspection of modern construction disturbances, and the excavation and analysis of features with investigators from the Centro Regional de Puebla and the Universidad de las Américas.
1983 Mapping of Classic period architectural remains at the Hotel Villas Arqueologicas, Cholula, Puebla; with Dr. Michael Lind and Charles Caskey, Universidad de las Américas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.
1978-80 Journeyman carpenter and construction supervisor for commercial and custom residential construction in Southern California.
1977 Crew member, crew chief, and supervisor of ceramics laboratory for settlement pattern survey of the Tamazulapan Valley, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico; with Dr. Bruce E. Byland, Pennsylvania State University.
1973-5 (part time, volunteer) restoration, analysis and classification of archaeological materials from the Near East and South Asia; Lowie Museum of Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley, with Dr. David Herod and Dr. George F. Dales.
1971 Excavation at the Calico Early Man site, Yermo, CA, with Dr. Dee Simons and Dr. Louis Leakey, San Bernardino County Museum, CA.