J A M E S A . D O Y L E , P h . D . http://jamesdoyle.net
C U R R E N T A P P O I N T M E N T
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014-present New York, NY
Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and The Americas Assistant Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas
P R I O R A P P O I N T M E N T S
Harvard University, 2013-2014 Washington, DC
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Post-Doctoral Associate in Pre-Columbian Studies
Georgetown University, 2013-2014 Washington, DC
Adjunct Instructor Adjunct Instructor
Science, Technology, and International Affairs Department of Art and Art History Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown College
The Catholic University of America, 2013 Washington, DC
Adjunct Instructor
Department of Anthropology
E D U C A T I O N
Brown University Providence, RI
Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, 2013
Dissertation Title – The First Maya “Collapse”: The End of the Preclassic Period at El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala
M.A., Department of Anthropology, 2009
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
B.A., magna cum laude, Anthropology with High Honors, 2005 Honors and Awards:
• 2005 – Honors in the College of Arts and Science • 2002-2005 – Dean’s List
• 2001-2005 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Full-Tuition Honors Scholar
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Precolumbian Civilizations: Mesoamerican Archaeology and Art History; Preclassic Maya culture (ca. 1000 BC – AD 250); emerging politics; monumental architecture and art; urbanism; landscape; ritual practice; performance; human/environmental interaction; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); writing systems; epigraphy; paleography
GRANTS
2015 – Metropolitan Museum Research Travel Grant, Metal Arts of the Americas ($5,000) 2014 – Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Grant, Colin McEwan, PI ($12,750)
2013 – Catholic University of America Grant-In-Aid, Ica Valley Project, Anita Cook, PI ($4,000) 2012 – GeoEye Foundation Imagery Grant, Yaxha Pilot Study, with Laura Gámez
2011-2012 – Brown University, Graduate School, Dissertation Award ($9,500)
2010–2011 – National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant ($20,000) 2010–2011 – Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant ($11,000) 2010 – Brown University, Graduate School, Research Travel Grant ($1,800) 2009 – Tinker Foundation, Summer Research Travel in Latin America ($1,000) 2008 – Brown University, Department of Anthropology, Summer Research ($600) 2004 – Vanderbilt University, Undergraduate Summer Research Program ($4,000) 2003 – Vanderbilt University, Undergraduate Summer Research Program ($3,500) FELLOWSHIPS
2012-2013 – Richard and Edna Salomon Fellow, Brown University
2011-2012 – Junior Fellow, Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
2010-2011 – Visiting Researcher, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History Mesoamerica Center, Casa Herrera, Antigua, Guatemala
2010 – Short-Term Pre-Doctoral Resident, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
2007–2008 Joukowsky Family Fellow at the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University
E X P E R I E N C E
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2014 – Environmental History of Pre-Columbian Latin America – Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA 357) Fall 2013 – Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture – Georgetown University, Department of Art and Art History (ARTH 417)
Spring 2013 – Environmental History of Pre-Columbian Latin America – Georgetown University (Cross-Listed): School of Foreign Service, Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA 357); Georgetown College, Department of History (HIST 354)
Spring 2013 – Archaeology of Settlements and Landscapes, The Catholic University of America, Department of Anthropology (ANTH 354)
Fall 2009-Spring 2010 – Proctor of Graduate Studies, Brown Department of Anthropology Spring 2009 – Teaching Assistant, Brown University, Course – Classic Maya Civilization Fall 2008 – Teaching Assistant, Brown University, Course – Language and Power FIELD EXPERIENCE
2014-2015 – Archaeological Site and Museum Collection Documentation, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru – Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas (5 weeks)
2011 – Mapping and Excavations at El Palmar, Guatemala (3 months) 2010-2011 – Laboratory materials analysis, Antigua Guatemala (9 months) 2010 – Excavations at El Palmar, Guatemala (3 months)
2009 – Mapping and Excavations at El Palmar, Guatemala (3 months) 2008 – Mapping at El Palmar, Guatemala (3 months)
2004 – Ethnography and Cognitive Pilot Projects, Chiapas, Mexico (2 months)
2003 – Field School, Silchester Roman Town, University of Reading, England (2 weeks) 2003 – Excavations at Holmul, Guatemala (2 months)
2002 – Excavations at Holmul, Guatemala (2 months) MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
2014-present – Assistant Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-2014 – Post-Doctoral Associate, Intermediate Area Collection, Dumbarton Oaks Museum 2010-2011 – Consultant, Museo Nacional de Antropología y Etnografía (Guatemala), Proyecto Nacional Tikal Collection.
DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY, AND MUSEUM SERVICE
2016 – Comité de Selección, XXX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala 2016 2015-2016 – Representative, Ad hoc Working Group on Forum Committee Restructuring, MMA 2014-2015 – Departmental Representative, Collections Care Group, MMA
2009-2010 – Social Sciences Representative, Brown University Graduate Council
2009-2010 – Graduate Student Liaison to Faculty Meetings, Department of Anthropology 2010 – Member, University Disciplinary Committee, Brown University
2009 – Chancellor, Graduate Student Council, Brown University 2008 – President, Graduate Student Council, Brown University 2008 – Member, Brown University Community Council
2008 – Member, The Corporation of Brown University, Campus Life Committee 2008 – Member, Committee on Careers, Brown University
2007 – Department representative, Graduate Student Council, Brown University AFFILIATIONS
Forum of Curators, Conservators, and Research Scientists, MMA (2014-present)
University Seminar, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Columbia University (2014-present) Society for American Archaeology (2003-present)
College Art Association (2016-present)
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University (2007-2013) Program for Early Cultures, Brown University (2010-2013)
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
2005-2007 CarryOn Communication, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. Corporate Public Relations 2004-2005 Vanderbilt Register, Nashville, TN. Editorial Assistant, Department of Public Affairs. 2003-2004 Vanderbilt Hustler, Nashville, TN. Staff Writer.
P U B L I C A T I O N S BOOKS
2016 – in press – Urbanism and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics. Cambridge University Press. 2015 – Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas. Co-authored with Joanne Pillsbury, Patricia Sarro, and Juliet Wiersema. (Chapter: Monumental Imaginings in Mesoamerican Architectural Models, pp. 31-53). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2017 – in preparation – The Wooden World of Classic Maya Artists, for the Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 52
2016 – in press – Creation Narratives on Ancient Maya Codex-Style Ceramics in the Met’s Collections, for the Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 51.
2014 – Confederate Curio: A Wooden Carving from Tikal, Guatemala. Principal author with Stephen D. Houston. Mexicon XXXVI(5): 139-145.
2013 – Early Maya Geometric Planning Conventions at El Palmar, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(2): 793-798.
2012 – Re-Group On “E-Groups”: Monumentality and Early Centers in The Middle Preclassic Maya Lowlands. Latin American Antiquity 23(4): 355-379.
2012 – Watchful Realms: Integrating GIS Analysis and Political History in the Southern Maya Lowlands. Principal author with Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen D. Houston. Antiquity 86(333): 792-807.
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
2017 – in preparation – Various catalog entries. In Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
2017 – in preparation – Calakmul: The Capital of the Snake Kingdom. In Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
2017 – in preparation – Into the Centipede’s Jaws: Sumptuous Offerings from the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza. In Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
2017 – in preparation – Various catalog entries. In Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.
2017 – in preparation – Mesoamerican Relationships with Central America. Principal author with John Hoopes and David Mora-Marín. In Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.
2017 – in preparation – Art of the Ancient Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In Museum and World Civilization: Ancient Americas. The Shanghai Museum, Shanghai. 2017 – in press – A Tale of Two E-Groups: El Palmar and Tikal, Petén, Guatemala. In Early Maya E-Groups, Solar Calendars, and the Role of Astronomy in the Rise of Lowland Maya Urbanism. University Press of Florida.
2016 – in press – The Preclassic Maya of El Palmar and the Buenavista Valley. Principal author with Rony Piedrasanta. In An Inconstant Landscape: The Archaeology of El Zotz, Guatemala. S. Houston, T. Garrison, and E. Román, eds. Under contract at University of Colorado Press.
2015 – A Neighborly View: Water and Environmental History of the El Zotz Region. Co-authored with Timothy Beach, et al. In Tikal and Maya Ecology: Water, Landscapes, and Resilience. D. Lentz, N. Dunning, and V. Scarborough, eds. pp. 258-279. Cambridge University Press.
2013 – Las plazas preclásicas del registro del tiempo: Reconsiderando los Complejos de
Conmemoración Astronómica. In XXVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2012. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.
2012 – A Paleographic Approach to Political Change Using Classic Maya Day Sign Variants. In Contributions in New World Archaeology, Vol. 4, J. Źrałka, W. Koszkul, and B. Golińska, pp. 125-137. Jagiellonian University and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cracow.
2012 – El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala y las vías de la época preclásica en el límite sur de la Meseta Kárstica Central. Principal author with Stephen D. Houston, et al. In XXV Simposio de
Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2011, B. Arroyo, L. Paiz, and H. Mejía, eds. pp. 837-844. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.
2012 – Catálogo de artefactos del Proyecto Nacional Tikal, depositados en la bodega del Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología de Guatemala: un legado de Juan Pedro Laporte. Co-authored with Walter Burgos Morakawa and Juan Pedro Laporte. In XXV Simposio de Investigaciones
Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2011, B. Arroyo, L. Paiz, and H. Mejía, eds. pp. 1237-1250. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.
2012 – En la vista de Pa’Chan: Procesos dinámicos en El Zotz, Petén y sus cercanías. Co-authored with Stephen Houston et al. In XXV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2011, B. Arroyo, L. Paiz, and H. Mejía, eds. pp. 181-192. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.
2011 – ¿Al alcance de la vista de Mundo Perdido? La planificación urbana y el abandono abrupto de El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala. Principal author with Stephen D. Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, and Edwin Román. In XXIV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2010. B. Arroyo, L.
Paiz Aragón, A. Linares Palma, and A.L. Arroyave, eds. pp. 45-56. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.
2011 – Al Valle de Buenavista: Investigaciones recientes en el centro dinástico de El Zotz y sus cercanías. Co-authored with Stephen Houston, et al. In XXIV Simposio de Investigaciones
Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2010. B. Arroyo, L. Paiz Aragón, A. Linares Palma, and A.L. Arroyave, eds. pp. 225-236. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.
2010 – La aplicación de las tecnologías nuevas en la teledetección de las Tierras Bajas Mayas. Co-authored with Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen D. Houston. In XXIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2009. B. Arroyo, A. Linares Palma, and L. Paiz Aragón, eds. pp. 231-238. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.
2010 – In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea. Dan Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press.
p. 49 – Lidded vessel of a world-turtle, Cat. 13 p. 50 – Lidded bowl with a water-bird, Cat. 28 p. 56 – Sculpture of a pelican, Cat. 31
p. 63 – Carving of a frog, Cat. 33, 34
p. 103 – Lidded vessel with water-birds and Oliva shell tinklers, Cat. 32 p. 106 – Tetrapod plate with a fish, Cat. 24 (with drawing)
p. 108 – Plate with a sea creature, Cat. 55
p. 114 – Shell plaque with a lord smoking, Cat. 40 p. 130 – Pectoral with an ancestor, Cat. 73
p. 242 – Stela fragment with Chahk [Oxkintox Stela 12], Cat. 8 p. 245 – Sculpture of Chahk, Cat. 9
p. 265 – Plate with the Maize God dancing above water, Cat. 65
2009 – Al Cielo Quebrado: Investigaciones en El Zotz, 2008. Co-authored with Stephen Houston et al. In XXII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2008. J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, and H. Mejía, eds. pp 619-629. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.
2003 – Teledetección, patrón de asentamiento e historia en Holmul, Petén. Co-authored with Francisco Estrada-Belli, et al. In XVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2003. J.P. Laporte, H. Escobedo, and Barbara Arroyo, eds. pp. 73-84. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.
ELECTRONIC ARTICLES, PODCASTS, AND REPORTS
2016 – Do Gods Sleep? Ancient Maya Deity Houses at Copán, Honduras. Now at the Met. 20 April 2016. http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2016/ancient-maya-deity-houses
2016 – Decoding a Maya Rain God Sculpture from Chichen Itza. Now at the Met. 31 March 2016. http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2016/maya-rain-god-sculpture-from-chichen-itza
2016 – The Woman in Wood: A Reencounter with Tikal’s Queen from Temple II. Principal author with Stephen Houston. Maya Decipherment. 06 January 2016.
https://decipherment.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/3757/
2015 – Giving Thanks before the Pilgrims: The Art of Feasting in the Ancient Americas. Now at the Met. 25 November 2015. http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2015/feasting-in-the-ancient-americas
2015 – Unearthing Gold Masterpieces from Venado Beach, Panama. Now at the Met. 28 August 2015. http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2015/unearthing-gold-masterpieces
2015 – Grasping the Foot of Lightning in a Maya Scepter Fragment. Now at the Met. 2 July 2015. http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2015/maya-scepter-fragment 2015 – “The Blood Was Pooled, the Skulls Were Piled”: Maya Star Wars and a Misconstrued Doomsdsay. Now at the Met. 29 May 2015. http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2015/tortuguero
2015 – Olmec Babies at the Met. Now at the Met. 17 April 2015.
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2015/olmec-babies
2015 – Sacrifice, Fealty, and a Sculptor's Signature on a Maya Relief. Now at the Met. 19 March 2015. http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2015/sculptors-signature 2015 – The Gilded Road: A Journey in Tweets. Now at the Met. 3 March 2015.
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2015/the-gilded-road
2014 – A Mountain’s Eyebrow: The Met's Earliest Ancient American Acquisition. Now at the Met. 22 December 2014.
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2014/mountains-eyebrow
2014 – The Arts of a Mesoamerican Metropolis, Here at the Met. Now at the Met. 19 November 2014. http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2014/teotihuacan 2014 – The Drinking Cup of a Classic Maya Noble. Now at the Met. 25 September 2014. http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2014/maya-drinking-cup 2014 – A Stone Sphere from Costa Rica. Now at the Met. 19 August 2014.
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2014/stone-sphere-costa-rica 2013 – Why Archaeology Matters, Podcast Panel with Rosemary Joyce and Adam T. Smith, Nov. 13, 2013. Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology with Dr. Joseph Schuldenrein.
http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/74104/why-archaeology-matters-a-crisis-in-federal-funding-of-archaeological-research
2012 – A Watery Tableau at El Mirador, Guatemala. Maya Decipherment. 09 Apr. 2012. Principal author with Stephen Houston. http://decipherment.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/a-watery-tableau-at-el-mirador-guatemala/.
2012 – Excavaciones y Reconocimiento en el sitio El Palmar. Principal author with Rony Piedrasanta. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, informe no. 6. Temporada 2011.
2011 – Excavaciones de la Temporada 2010 en El Palmar (Operaciones 1 y 8). Principal author with Rony Piedrasanta. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, informe no. 5. Temporada 2010.
http://www.mesoweb.com/zotz/resources/2010/El-Zotz-2010-08.pdf.
2009 – Excavaciones y Levantamiento Topográfico de la Temporada 2009 en El Palmar. Principal author with Varinia Matute Rodríguez. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, informe no. 4
Temporada 2009. http://www.mesoweb.com/zotz/El-Zotz-2009.pdf.
2008 – Sitio El Palmar (Operación 6). Co-authored with Varinia Matute Rodríguez. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, informe no. 1: temporada de campo 2008.
http://www.mesoweb.com/zotz/El-Zotz-2008.pdf.
2008 – Programa de Mapeo y Reconocimiento (Operación 7). Co-authored with Zachary Nelson. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, informe no. 1: temporada de campo 2008.
http://www.mesoweb.com/zotz/El-Zotz-2008.pdf.
2005 –Lady Six Sky and the Definition of Ritual Space at Naranjo. Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal [Online] Vol. 1, No. 1 (10 May 2005).
http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/ojs/index.php/vurj/article/view/2709.
P R E S E N T A T I O N S INVITED LECTURES
2016 – Shanghai Museum Lecture Series. Papers to be presented at the Shanghai Museum, November 10-13, 2016.
2016 – Creation Narratives on Ancient Maya Codex-Style Ceramics in the Met’s Collections. Paper presented at the Pre-Columbian Society of New York, April 14, 2016.
2016 – The Search for Kings and Queens in Ancient Panama. Paper presented at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Feb. 16, 2016.
2014 – Un mundo desaparecido: Materiales perecederos y una pieza olvidada de los mayas de la época Clásica. Paper presented at the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Nov. 13, 2014. 2014 – The Rediscovery of a Wooden Carving from Tikal, Guatemala. Paper presented at the
Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, June 10, 2014. 2014 – Monumental Small Things: Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Paper presented at the Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. monthly meeting, June 2014. 2014 – Mexico and Central America. Presentation given at “Preventing Illicit Trafficking, Protecting Cultural Heritage.” Museum Support Center, Smithsonian Institution, March 13, 2014.
2012 – The First Maya “Collapse”: The End of the Preclassic Period at El Palmar, Petén,
Guatemala. Paper presented at the Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. monthly meeting, March 2012.
2012 – Preclassic Maya Civilization. Georgetown University. January 24, 2012.
INVITED SESSIONS
2017 – When is a Plate? Codex-Style Masters and the Many Faces of Chahk. Paper to be presented with Stephen Houston at the College Art Association Annual Conference, February 2017, New York, NY.
2016 – E-Groups and the Origins of Ancient Maya Exchange. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeological Annual Meeting, April 2016, Orlando, FL.
2015 – Dangling Modifiers: Reconstituting Central American Identities from Gold and Jade in North American Museum Collections. Paper presented (absentee) at the International Conference of Americanists, July 2015, San Salvador, El Salvador.
2015 – Preclassic Maya Territories and Boundaries. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, April 2015, San Francisco, CA.
2015 – Mesoamerica and Central America. Paper presented at The Art And Archaeology Of Central America And Colombia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama. January 2015
2015 – Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks: an objects based workshop, January 2014. Paper presented at The Art And Archaeology Of Central America And Colombia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama. January 2015.
2014 – Hammond on Méndez and a Confederate Curio: Wooden Carvings from Tikal, Guatemala. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, April 2014, Austin, TX. 2014 – Beads and Beaded Necklaces; and Veraguas Zoomorphic Pendants. Papers presented at “Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks” Workshop at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, January 2014, Washington, DC.
2013 – Breath, Death, and Heirloom Jewels: Ancient Maya and Costa Rican Jades at Dumbarton Oaks. Paper presented at “Jade in the Americas: History, Sources, and Techniques” Workshop at the Walters Art Museum, December 12, 2013, Baltimore, MD.
2013 – A Tale of Two E-Groups: El Palmar and Tikal, Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the “Early Maya E-Groups, Solar Calendars and the Role of Astronomy in the Rise of Lowland Urbanism II” Working Group at the Santa Fe Institute, August 24-25, 2013, Santa Fe, NM. 2013 – Ya Pasó de Moda: El uso, abandono y decaimiento del Complejo de Tipo Grupo E en El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the XXVII Simposio de Investigaciones
2013 – Laguna-front Property on The Lower East Side: An Elite Preclassic Residential Platform at El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, April 2013, Honolulu, HI.
2013 – Middle-Late Formative Maya Ceramics: Circulation or Local Production? Paper co-authored with Ronald Bishop et al., presented by Ronald Bishop at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, April 2013, Honolulu, HI.
2012 – Communities with a View and Milpa Plazas: Early E-Groups in the Central Petén. Paper presented at the “Early Maya E-Groups, Solar Calendars and the Role of Astronomy in the Rise of Lowland Urbanism” Working Group at the Santa Fe Institute, August 25-26, 2012, Santa Fe, NM. 2011 – El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala y las vías de la época preclásica en el límite sur de la Meseta Kárstica Central. Paper presented at the XXV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas de Guatemala, 2011, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
SUBMITTED
2015 – De una capital a otra: una pieza de Tikal en el Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Instituto Smithsoniano. Paper presented at the XXIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2015, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2012 – Las plazas preclásicas del registro del tiempo: Reconsiderando los Complejos de Conmemoración Astronómica. Paper presented at the XXVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2012, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2012 – The Preclassic Maya, Sui Generis: New Evidence from the Buenavista Valley. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, April 2012, Memphis, TN.
2011 - Catálogo de artefactos del Proyecto Nacional Tikal, depositados en la bodega del Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología de Guatemala: un legado de Juan Pedro Laporte. Paper presented at the XXV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2011, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2010 – Regroup on “E-Groups”: Middle Preclassic Monumentality, Political Structure, and Socio-territorial Organization in the Maya Lowlands.” Paper presented at the 15th European Maya Conference, December 2010, Madrid, Spain.
2010 – ¿Al Alcance de la Vista de Mundo Perdido? La Planificación Urbana y el Abandono Abrupto de El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the XXIV Simposio de Investigaciones
Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2009 – A Paleographic Approach to Political Change Using Classic Maya Day Sign Variants. Paper presented at the 14th European Maya Conference, November 2009, Cracow, Poland.
2008 – Riding in Style: Palanquins as Vehicles in Classic Maya Ritual Procession. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, March 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2004 – Ethnobotany de Zinacantan: explorando diferencias sociales. Co-authored with Norbert Ross. Paper presented at the Sexto Congreso Internacional de Mayistas July 2004, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico.
2004 – Radical Transitions in Late and Terminal Classic Group III, Holmul, Guatemala. Co-authored with Chris Hewitson and Judith Valle. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting April 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
2015 – Co-organizer, “The Art And Archaeology Of Central America And Colombia,” Workshop, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
2014 – Co-organizer, “Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks,” Workshop, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC
2011 – Co-organizer, “BIG: Monumentality and Meaning in the Ancient World,” Program for Early Cultures, Brown University, Providence, RI
2008 – Chair of Symposium “Studies of Symbolism, Ritual, and Art in Mesoamerica,” Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC Canada
