Contributors
Anthony P. Andrews is Professor of Anthropology, New College of Florida. He received his BA from Harvard University and his MA and PhD from the University of Arizona. His main research area is the archaeology and history of Yucatán, Mexico.
Traci Ardren is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Miami. She co-directs the Political Interaction in Central Yucatan Project at the ancient Maya site of Yaxuna and directs the Matecumbe Chiefdom Project in the Florida Keys.
Timothy Beach, Centennial Chair in Geography, University of Texas at Austin, directs its Soils and Geoarchaeology Laboratory. He has more than 100 publications on soils, geomorphology, and geoarchaeology of Central America and worldwide.
Chelsea Blackmore is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work examines gender, class, and everyday life among ancient and colonial period Maya.
Tara Bond-Freeman received her PhD from Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Mesoamerica and the northern Maya lowlands with an interest in ceramic analysis.
Bruce H. Dahlin (deceased) initiated major multidisciplinary projects at El Mirador, Guatemala, and Chunchucmil, Mexico. After retiring from Howard University, he devoted himself to rebuilding log houses and documenting ancient climate change with stalagmites.
Patrice Farrell is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Urban Environment and Sustainability Studies, at the University of Minnesota at Duluth.
David R. Hixson received his PhD from Tulane University with a specialization in archaeological remote sensing. He is currently an adjunct professor of archaeology, anthropology, and geography at Hood College, Maryland, and Shepherd University, West Virginia.
Scott R. Hutson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and currently directs the Ucí-Cansahcab Regional Integration Project in Yucatan, Mexico.
Socorro Jiménez received her doctorate in anthropology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She currently works as a research professor in the Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán.
Justin Lowry is a specialist in spatial analysis of social phenomenon. His research takes the anthropological perspective, using cross-cultural understandings, to shed new light on the studies of migration and immigration in the ancient and modern world.
Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach (PhD, Minnesota) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in hydrology, geomorphology, geoarchaeology, geostatistics, and human rights.
Aline Magnoni is a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. She is an anthropological archaeologist with a PhD from Tulane and more than twenty years of research experience in the Maya region.
Eugenia Mansell has directed ceramic analysis and managed archaeological labs in Mexico and Belize. In addition to pottery, she has published on stable isotopes and ancient Maya diet.
Daniel E. Mazeau is a Principal Investigator with the Cultural Resources Survey Program at the New York State Museum. His research interests include pre-contact archaeology of the Northeast United States, socioeconomic systems and structure, and the organization of lithic technology.
Travis W. Stanton is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He currently co-directs the PIPCY Project in Yucatan and has published and edited several books.
Ryan V. Sweetwood is an Environmental Scientist in the state of Arizona. He received his BS and MS at Brigham Young University.
Richard E. Terry is retired Professor of Soil Science at Brigham Young University. His research is focused on the soil resources and geochemistry of Maya fields, plazas, and households.