Current and Former Fellows

2010/11

Fellows

• Ellen Bell, California State University Stanislaus, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, Olmec Hieroglyphic Writing and Its Decipherment
• Peter Kaulicke, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, From Local Leaders to Intermediate Elites in the Lima Polity: A view from Lote B
• Jessica Munson, University of Arizona, Academic Year, Building on the Past: The Emergence of Maya Elites and Monumental Architecture at Anonal, Peten, Guatemala
• N. Parker 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 López, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Hydrographic City: Mapping Mexico City's Urban Form in Relation to Its Aquatic Condition, 1521–1700
• Adam Sellen, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, 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

2009/10

Fellows

• Elizabeth Arkush, University of Virginia, Academic Year, War, Violent Spectacle, and Political Authority in the Pre-Columbian Andes
• Marco Curatola-Petrocchi, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Academic Year, 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 de Tarapacá, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, 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, Let Them Eat Salt! Camayoc in the Service of Capac and Crown
• Eugenia Ibarra, Universidad de Costa Rica, Exploring Warfare and Slave Capture in 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, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Maya Conceptions of History in a Mesoamerican Perspective
• Jorge Gamboa Velásquez, University of Montreal, Santa Valley Project, The Architecture of Social Encounters: Plazas and Platforms in the Southern Moche State

2008/09

Fellows

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

Summer Fellows

• Jessica 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

Visiting Scholar

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

2007/08

Fellows

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

Visiting scholar

• María Teresa Uriarte, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, México
  

2006/07

Fellows

• Claude-François Baudez, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, Fall, Mesoamerican Ballgames and their Victims
• Thomas W. Killion, Wayne State University, Spring, Mexico's Southern Gulf Coast Lowlands: Archaeology and Culture History
• Matthew Looper Ancient Maya Dance
• Ann H. Peters, Cornell University, Academic Year, Paracas Necrópolis: Reconstructing Contextual Relationships
• Lorena del Carmen Rodas-Ramírez The Aesthetic Dimension and Individual Creation in Prehispanic Nahuatl Poetry
• John W. Verano, Tulane University, Academic Year, Trepanation in Ancient Peru

Junior Fellows

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

Visiting scholar

• Joan Gero, American University, Yutopian: The Formative Archaeology of Northwest Argentina

2005/06

Fellows

• Scott Hutson, University of Kentucky, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, 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, México, 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

Visiting Scholars

• Elizabeth Boone, Tulane University, Fall, Painted Books and Indigenous Expression in Pre-Conquest and Early Colonial Mexico
• Timothy Knowlton, Tulane University, Academic Year
  
• 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

2004/05

Fellow

• Jean-François Millaire, McGill University, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, On the Lips of Others: Fame and the Transformation of Moctezuma's Image
• Sarah Jackson, Harvard University, Academic Year, Deciphering Classic Maya Political Hierarchy: An Integrated Study of the Non-Royal Elite
• Megan O'Neil, Yale University, Academic Year, Making Visible History: Picturing the Past in Ancient Maya Sculpture

2003/04

Fellows

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

Junior Fellow

• R. Jeffrey Frost, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Academic Year, 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

2002/03

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, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, 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

2001/02

Fellows

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

Junior Fellows

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

Summer Fellows

• Eugenia Ibarra, Universidad de Costa Rica, Inter-ethnic 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

2000/01

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, Academic Year, Origins and Development of Civilization on the Peruvian Coast

Junior Fellows

• Linda Brown, University of Colorado, Boulder, Academic Year, 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, Analysing Colour 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

1999/00

Fellows

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

Junior Fellows

• Delia Annunziata Cosentino, University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Year, Landscapes of Lineage: Nahua Pictorial Genealogies of Central Mexico
• Karl James Lorenzen, University of California, Merced, Academic Year, 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

1998/99

Fellows

• Tamara L. Bray, Wayne State University, Academic Year, The Art of Empire in the Andes: Form and Imagery of Imperial Inca Pottery
• Warren B. Church, Yale University, Academic Year, Culture Areas and Interaction Spheres in the Tropical Andean Cloud Forests of South America
• Andrea Stone, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, Ancestors: An Archaeology of Southwest Ecuador

Junior Fellow

• Michael A. Ohnersorgen, Arizona State University, Academic Year, 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

1997/98

Fellows

• Jorge G. Marcos, Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos y Antropologicos, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, The Nature and Development of Social Hierarchy at Río Amarillo: A Secondary Center, Copán Honduras
• Jason Yaeger, University of Pennsylvania, Academic Year, Interaction, Identity and Integration in Ancient Mesoamerican Communities
• Eduardo de Jesús Douglas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Academic Year, 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

1996/97

Fellows

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

Junior Fellow

• Adam Herring, Harvard University, Academic Year, Studies in Classic Maya Sculpture

1995/96

Fellow

• Susan Toby Evans, Pennsylvania State University, Academic Year, Aztec Palaces: Architecture and Authority in Ancient Mexico

Junior Fellows

• Susan E. Bergh, Columbia University, Academic Year, Middle Horizon Tapestries: A Problem of Identity
• Oswaldo Chinchilla, Vanderbilt University, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, 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

1994/95

Fellows

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

Junior Fellows

• Christopher Beekman, Vanderbilt University, Academic Year, The Long-term Evolution of a Political Boundary: Archaeological Research in Jalisco, Mexico
• Saburo Sugiyama, Arizona State University, Academic Year, 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

1993/94

Fellows

• Catherine J. Allen, George Washington University, Academic Year, Aesthetic Principles in Andean Art
• James E. Brady, Vanderbilt University, Academic Year, An Investigation of Maya Ritual Cave Use
• Paul S. Goldstein, American Museum of Natural History, Academic Year, Tiwanaku Hegemony and Peripheral Control
• Dennis Tedlock, State University of New York at Buffalo, Academic Year, 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

1992/93

Fellows

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

Junior Fellows

• Brian R. Billman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Academic Year, The Evolution of Political Centralization in the Moche Valley, Peru
• Mary Elizabeth Pye, Vanderbilt University, Academic Year, 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

1991/92

Fellows

• Cecilia F. Klein, University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Year, Fighting with Femininity: Gender and War in Aztec Discourse
• Patricia A. McAnany, Boston University, Academic Year, The Economic Expression of Social Inequality Among the Classic Maya
• Jeanette E. Sherbondy, Washington College, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, 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

1990/91

Fellow

• John M.D. Pohl, University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Year, The Codex Zouche-Nuttall

Junior Fellows

• Heidy Fogel, Yale University, Academic Year, A Comparative Study of the Gallinazo Occupations of the Viru and Moche Valleys, Peru
• Barbara Mundy, Yale University, Academic Year, The Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas of New Spain (1579–1586): Native Mapping in the Conquered Land
• Javier Urcid, Yale University, Academic Year, 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

1989/90

Fellows

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

Junior Fellow

• Joanne Pillsbury, Columbia University, Academic Year, 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

1988/89

Fellows

• Louise M. Burkhart, Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, A Comparative Study of Ancient Maya Residencies

Junior Fellows

• Bernd Fahmel-Beyer, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM, Academic Year, Monte Alban: Integración en una ciudad plural
• Richard Wright, University of Virginia, Academic Year, 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 16^th 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

1987/88

Fellows

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

1986/87

Fellows

• Flora C. Clancy, The University of New Mexico, Academic Year, The History of Maya Monumental Sculpture
• Andrea Stone, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Academic Year, A Study of Cave Paintings and Petroglyphs from Naj Tunich, Guatemala

Junior Fellows

• Bruce Love, University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Year, A Commentary on the Paris Codex
• Karl Taube, Yale University, Academic Year, 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

1985/86

Fellow

• Emily Umberger, Arizona State University, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year, Sacred Land, Sacred Water: Inca Landscape Planning in the Machu Picchu Area
• Rebecca Rollins Stone, Yale University, Academic Year, 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), Academic Year, A Prehistoric Andean State: The Nature of Huari
• Patricia Netherly, University of Massachusetts, Academic Year, 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), Academic Year, 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

1983/84

Junior Fellows

• Christopher Couch, Columbia University, Academic Year, The Illustrations of the Durán Group of Manuscripts
• David Stuart, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (Graduate), Academic Year, Ancient Maya Writing
• Steven A. Wegner, University of California, Berkeley, Academic Year, 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.

1982/83

Fellow

• David A. Freidel, Southern Methodist University, Academic Year, Pre-Classic Art and Architecture at Cerros: A Lowland Maya Center in Belize

Junior Fellow

• Carl P. Beetz, University of Pennsylvania, Academic Year, 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

1981/82

Fellow

• John S. Justeson, University of South Carolina, Academic Year, Comparative Studies of Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing

Junior Fellow

• Virginia Elizabeth Miller, University of Texas, Austin, Academic Year, A Reinterpretation of the Maya Gestures of 'Submission'

Summer Fellow

• Mario A. Rivera, Universidad de Chile, Prehistory of the Meridional Andean Area

1980/81

Fellows

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

1979/80

Junior Fellows

• Mary Ellen Miller, Yale University, Academic Year, The Murals of Bonampak
• Anne Paul, University of Texas, Austin, Academic Year, An Interpretation of Paracas Textile Iconography

1978/79

Bliss Fellow

• Richard F. Townsend, University of Texas, Austin, Academic Year, Tenochtitlan and the Valley of Mexico: Time and Space in Urban Symbolism

Fellow

• Alan Louis Kolata, Harvard University, Academic Year, Tree Symbolism in Ancient Mesoamerica
• Richard F. Townsend

Junior Fellow

• Flora C. Clancy, Yale University, Academic Year, A Formal Analysis of the Compositions and Carving Styles Found on Classic Maya Monuments

1977/78

Fellow

• Sabine Mac Cormack

Junior Fellows

• Jeff K. Kowalkski, Yale University, Academic Year
  

Visiting scholar

• Floyd Lounsbury, Yale University, Academic Year
  

1976/77

Junior Fellow

• Carlos B. Arostegui, Yale University, Academic Year, The Iconography of the Mixtec Codices: The Personal Names

1975/76

Junior Fellow

• Linda Schele, University of South Alabama, Academic Year
  

Visiting scholar

• Robert L. Rands, Southern Illinois University, Fall
  

1974/75

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, Academic Year, Greca: An Exploratory Study of Relationships between Art, Society, and Personality

Junior Fellow

• Peter David Joralemon, Yale University, Academic Year, Corpus, Analysis, and Study of the Evolution of the Olmec Art Style

1973/74

Visiting scholar

• Floyd Lounsbury, Yale University, Academic Year
  

1972/73

Bliss Fellow

• Joyce Marcus, Harvard University, Academic Year, A Reconstruction of the Socio-Political Structure of the Classic Maya with Inferences Drawn from the Iconography and Epigraphy

1971/72

Bliss Fellow

• Chiaki Kano, University of Gakushuin & The University of Tokyo, Academic Year, 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, Academic Year
  

Visiting Fellow

• Arthur Miller

1970/71

Bliss Fellow

• Arthur Miller, Yale University, Academic Year, A Systematic Study of the Iconography of Teotihuacán Mural Painting