The fellowship program in Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks encompasses research developed out of archaeological, art historical, and ethno-historical approaches to the Pre-Columbian past in Mesoamerica, Central America, and the Andes.
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2019–2020
Fellows
- Stephanie M. Strauss (University of Texas at Austin), “Sculpting the Narrative: The Material Practice of Epi-Olmec Art and Writing”
- Saburo Sugiyama (Arizona State University, Fall), “Urbanism, Arts, and Polity of Ancient Teotihuacan”
- Loa Traxler (University of New Mexico), “Establishing the Dynastic House: The Founding and Early Evolution of the Copan Acropolis”
Junior Fellows
- Gina Buckley (Pennsylvania State University), “What Is the City but the People? A Comparative Analysis of Migration and Socioeconomic Status Groups in the La Ventilla District of Classic Period Teotihuacan”
- Victor Castillo (University of Arizona), “Conquest as Revival in the Sixteenth-Century Maya Highlands: Excavations at Chiantla Viejo, Guatemala”
- Sarah Kennedy (University of Pittsburgh), “Marginalized Labor in the Silver Mining Industry: Reconstructing Power and Identity in Colonial Peru”
- Michelle Young (Yale University), “The ‘Chavín Phenomenon’ in Huancavelica, Peru: Interregional Interaction, Ritual Practice, and Social Transformations at Atalla”
William R. Tyler Fellows
- James Almeida, “Coercing the Andes: The Legacies of Inca Forced Labor Practices in Colonial Potosí”
- Trenton Barnes, “Walking the Space of Time: Void and Body in the Architecture of Teotihuacan, Mexico”
- Felipe Ledesma-Núñez, “Sound and Singing/Dancing in the Rural Colonial Andes, 1560–1700: Demons, Sorceries, Idolatries”
Summer Fellows
- David Colmenares Gonzalez (Columbia University), “How the Aztecs Got a Pantheon: The Creation of an Ancient Religion in New Spain”
- Mirjana Danilovic (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), “Addressing Alterity: The Case of Mexica Dance”
- Christopher Valesey (Pennsylvania State University), “‘With Eagle-ness, With Jaguar-ness’: Predators and Military Tropes in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica”
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2018–2019
Visiting Scholar
- Maria Teresa Uriarte (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Spring)
Fellows
- Traci Ardren (University of Miami, Spring), “Go in Pairs, Intertwined: Soft Technologies and the Role of Plants in Classic Maya Identity”
- Alexandre Tokovinine (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Spring), “In the Shadow of Overlords: Minor Royal Dynasties of the Classic Maya”
- James Zeidler (Colorado State University), “Contextual and Iconographic Analysis of Prehispanic Ceramic Artifacts from the Jama River Valley, Coastal Ecuador”
Junior Fellows
- Angel Gonzalez (University of California, Riverside), “The Production of New Political Speech: Unpacking the Stone Sculptures Archive from Tenochtitlan”
- Carla Hernandez Garavito (Vanderbilt University), “Cultural Legibility and the Provincial Inca Empire: Subjugation of the Inca in Local Memory and Ritual in Huarochirí”
- Patrick Mullins (University of Pittsburgh), “The Transformation of Political Frontier Landscapes in the Upper Moche Valley of Peru”
- Scotti Norman (Vanderbilt University), “The Archaeology of Taki Onqoy: Revitalization and Religious Entanglement in Highland Peru”
William R. Tyler Fellows
- Trenton Barnes, “Walking the Space of Time: Void and Body in the Architecture of Teotihuacan, Mexico”
Summer Fellows
- Eugenia Ibarra (Universidad de Costa Rica), “Exploring the Ethnohistory of Pre-Columbian Late Migrants in Lower Central America: Maribios, Mexicanos, and Cicuas in Focus in the Sixteenth Century”
- Gary Urton (Harvard University), “Inca Khipu”
- Isabel Yaya McKenzie (Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, Paris), “Beyond Descent and Affinity: Rethinking the Inca Royal Ayllus as a ‘House Society’”
2017–2018
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Junior Fellows
William R. Tyler Fellow
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2016–2017
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Junior Fellows
William R. Tyler Fellow
- Ari Caramanica, “The Forgotten Landscapes of the Peruvian North Coast: Cupisnique, Moche, and Chimu Peripheral Occupation”
Summer Fellows
2015–2016
Visiting Scholar
- William Fash (Harvard University, Spring)
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2014–2015
Visiting Scholar
- Gary Urton (Harvard University)
Fellows
Junior Fellows
- Sarah Baitzel (University of California, San Diego), “Giving Life, Taking Life: Mortuary Rituals and Social Identities at the Tiwanaku Colony Omo M10, Moquegua, Peru”
- Alicia Boswell (University of California, San Diego), “Cocales, the Chimú, and the Inca: Prestige Resources in Late Andean Empires”
- Caitlin Earley (University of Texas at Austin), “At the Edge of the Maya World: Power, Politics, and Identity in Monuments of the Comitán Valley, Chiapas, Mexico”
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2013–2014
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Junior Fellows
- Nicholas Carter (Brown University), “That Strength Which in Old Days Moved Earth and Heaven: Kingship in the Maya Terminal Classic Period”
- Zachary Chase (University of Chicago), “Performing the Past in the Ritual, Mythological, and Historical Landscapes of Huarochirí, Peru (ca. 1400-1700)”
- Jamie Forde (University of Colorado, Boulder), “The Conquest of the Hill of the Sun: Indigenous Domestic Life at Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico”
- Alejandra Rojas (Harvard University), “Flora Incognita: Picturing Nature in the New World”
- Franco Rossi (Boston University), “The Brothers Taaj: Orders and the Politics of Expertise in the Late Maya Court”
William R. Tyler Fellow
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2012–2013
Visiting Scholar
- Katharina Schreiber (University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring)
Fellows
- Ricardo Agurcia (Asociación Copán, Spring), “Art, Architecture, and Archaeology at Temple 16, Copán, Honduras”
- Paul Goldstein (University of California, San Diego), “Being Tiwanaku: Tiwanaku Social Identities in Diaspora”
- Jeff Kowalski (Northern Illinois University, Spring), “The Nunnery Quadrangle at Uxmal: Kingship, Court, and Cosmos in a Puuc Palace Complex”
- Axel Nielsen (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), “Llama Caravans and Interregional Trade in the South Andes: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives”
- Frauke Sachse (Universität Bonn), “Changing Otherworlds: Concepts of ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’ in the Context of Early Colonial Christianization”
Junior Fellows
William R. Tyler Fellows
- Dylan Clark (Harvard University), “Living on the Edge: The Residential Spaces, Social Organization, and Dynamics of Isla Cerritos, a Maya Port”
- Nawa Sugiyama (Harvard University), “Ritualized Animals: Understanding Human-Animal Interactions at Teotihuacan”
- Lisa Trever (Harvard University), “Moche Mural Painting and Practice at Pañamarca: A Study of Image Making in Ancient Peru”
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2011–2012
Visiting Scholar
- Santiago Uceda Castillo (Director del Proyecto Arqueológico Huaca de la Luna, Fall)
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Junior Fellows
William R. Tyler Fellows
Summer Fellows
- Stacey Dunn (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), “Architecture and Power in the Expansion of a Small Polity: Elite Households of the Chancay-Huaura Valley, Peru”
- James Louis Fitzsimmons (University of New Hampshire/Middlebury College), “The Archaeology of Death in Ancient Mesoamerica”
- Timothy Murtha (Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University), “The Ancient Maya Landscape: Early Perceptions and Interpretations”
- Christina Torres-Rouff (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile), “Crafting Social Identity through the Body in Prehistoric San Pedro de Atacama, Chile”
- Isabel Yaya (Musée du Quai Branly), “The Politics of Marriage in Inca Cuzco: Women and the Perpetuation of Kingship”
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2010–2011
Visiting Scholar
- Ricardo Agurcia F. (Copan Association, Spring)
Fellows
- Ellen E. Bell (California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock), “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/University of South Carolina), “Epi-Olmec Hieroglyphic Writing and Its Decipherment”
- Peter Kaulicke (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima), “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), “Interlocking the Lima Culture: Intermediates Elites' Power Strategies at Lote B, Lurín Valley, Peru”
- Jessica Munson (University of Arizona, Tucson), “Building on the Past: Temple Histories and Communities of Practice at Caobal, Petén, Guatemala”
- Nathaniel P. 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 F. López (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “The Hydrographic City: Mapping Mexico City's Urban Form in Relation to Its Aquatic Condition, 1521–1700”
- Adam Sellen (Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, UNAM, México), “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”
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2009–2010
Fellows
- Elizabeth Arkush (University of Virginia), “War, Violent Spectacle, and Political Authority in the Pre-Columbian Andes“
- Marco Curatola-Petrocchi (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), “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 Tarapacá de Arica), “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”
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2008–2009
Visiting Scholar
- Christopher Donnan (University of California, Los Angeles, Spring)
Fellows
- John W. Janusek (Vanderbilt University), “Pre-Columbian Urbanism in Comparative Perspective: Space, Society, and Long-Term Human-Landscape Relations”
- Antti Korpisaari (University of Helsinki), “Ethnic Diversity in the Tiwanaku Period (ca. 500–1100/1500 AD) South Central Andes”
- Michael W. Love (California State University, Northridge), “Early Social Complexity in Ancient Mesoamerica: Public and Private Perspectives”
- Stella Nair (University of California, Riverside), “Retreats without Surrender: The Architecture of Sanctuary at Chinchero, from Thupa 'Inka to the Spanish Occupation”
- Andrew K. Scherer (Baylor University), “Death and Burial among the Classic Maya”
- Verónica I. Williams (Instituto de Arqueología, University of Buenos Aires, Fall), “To the Edge of the Empire: The Dynamics of Inca Rule in the South Andes”
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2007–2008
Visiting Scholar
- María Teresa Uriarte (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Fellows
- Timothy Beach (Georgetown University), “Environmental History of the Maya Lowlands: Ecology, Sustainability, and Society from the Pleistocene to the Present”
- Charles Golden (Brandeis University), “Building Time: The Origins of Dynastic Kingship in the Maya Lowlands”
- Elizabeth Graham (University College London), “An Archaeological Perspective on the Colonial Encounter at Lamanai and Tipu”
- Stephen D. Houston (Brown University), “In the Land of the Turtle Lords: Classic Maya Civilization and Urban Life at Piedras Negras, Guatemala”
- Gordon F. McEwan (Wagner College), “The Archaeology of Inca Origins: A Study of Second Generation State Formation of the Andes”
- Alexei Vranich (University of Pennsylvania), “Architecture, Landscape, and the Archaic State”
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2006–2007
Visiting Scholar
Fellows
- Claude-François Baudez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Fall), “Mesoamerican Ballgames and their Victims”
- Thomas W. Killion (Wayne State University, Spring), “Mexico's Southern Gulf Coast Lowlands: Archaeology and Culture History”
- Ann H. Peters (Cornell University), “Paracas Necrópolis: Reconstructing Contextual Relationships”
- John W. Verano (Tulane University), “Trepanation in Ancient Peru”
Junior Fellows
- Byron Hamann (University of Chicago),“A New Codex of Yanhuitlán: Pre-Hispanic History and Inquisitorial Testimonies in the Mixteca Alta, ca. 950–1546”
- Ann Clair Seiferle-Valencia (Harvard University), “Unpainted Histories: Reconciling the Pictorial Manuscripts and Archaeology of Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, Mexico”
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2005–2006
Visiting Scholars
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Junior Fellows
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2004–2005
Fellow
- Jean-François Millaire (McGill University), “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), “On the Lips of Others: Fame and the Transformation of Moctezuma's Image”
- Sarah Jackson (Harvard University), “Deciphering Classic Maya Political Hierarchy: An Integrated Study of the Non-Royal Elite”
- Megan O'Neil (Yale University), “Making Visible History: Picturing the Past in Ancient Maya Sculpture”
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2003–2004
Fellows
- James Louis Fitzsimmons (University of New Hampshire), “Classic Maya Satellites: Restoring Provenience to Looted Monuments of the Sierra de Lacandón, Guatemala”
- Bryan R. Just (Tulane University), “The Social Discourse of Style in Ninth-Century Maya Sculpture”
- Izumi Shimada (Southern Illionois University), “Sociopolitical History of the Pre-Hispanic North Coast of Peru”
Junior Fellow
- R. Jeffrey Frost (University of Wisconsin at Madison), “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”
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2002–2003
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), “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), “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”
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2001–2002
Fellows
- George Lau (New Haven, Connecticut), “The Recuay Culture: Art and Architecture in the North Highlands of Peru”
- Carolyn Tate (Texas Tech University), “Gods, Cults, Shamans?: An Investigation of Olmec Spiritual Constructs and Practices”
Junior Fellows
- Allan L. Maca (Cambridge, Massachusetts), “A Conjunctive Approach to the Classic Maya City”
- Steven Wernke (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “An Andean Archaeo-History of Community and Landscape”
Summer Fellows
- Eugenia Ibarra (Universidad de Costa Rica), “Interethnic 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”
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2000–2001
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), “Origins and Development of Civilization on the Peruvian Coast”
Junior Fellows
- Linda Brown (University of Colorado, Boulder), “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), “Analyzing Color 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”
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1999–2000
Fellows
- Vilma Fialko (Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala), “Maya Funerary Tradition at Tikal, Guatemala”
- Antonia E. Foias (Williams College), “History, Politics and Economics at the Classic Maya Center Motul de San José”
Junior Fellows
- Delia Annunziata Cosentino (University of California, Los Angeles), “Landscapes of Lineage: Nahua Pictorial Genealogies of Central Mexico”
- Karl James Lorenzen (University of California, Merced), “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”
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1998–1999
Fellows
- Tamara L. Bray (Wayne State University), “The Art of Empire in the Andes: Form and Imagery of Imperial Inca Pottery”
- Warren B. Church (Yale University), “Culture Areas and Interaction Spheres in the Tropical Andean Cloud Forests of South America”
- Andrea Stone (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), “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), “Ancestors: An Archaeology of Southwest Ecuador”
Junior Fellow
- Michael A. Ohnersorgen (Arizona State University), “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”
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1997–1998
Fellows
- Jorge G. Marcos (Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos y Antropologicos, Guayaquil, Ecuador), “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), “The Nature and Development of Social Hierarchy at Río Amarillo: A Secondary Center, Copán Honduras”
- Jason Yaeger (University of Pennsylvania), “Interaction, Identity and Integration in Ancient Mesoamerican Communities”
- Eduardo de Jesús Douglas (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), “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”
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1996–1997
Fellows
- Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle (Copán Association, Honduras, Central America), “Early Classic Maya Cosmology and Kingship at Copán”
- Simon Martin (McCallum Kennedy D'Auria Ltd., London, England), “Comparative Research into the Structure and Operation of Mesoamerican Political Hegemonies”
- Dorie Reents-Budet (Duke University Museum of Art), “The Maya Ceramics Project”
Junior Fellow
- Adam Herring (Harvard University), “Studies in Classic Maya Sculpture”
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1995–1996
Fellow
- Susan Toby Evans (Pennsylvania State University), “Aztec Palaces: Architecture and Authority in Ancient Mexico”
Junior Fellows
- Susan E. Bergh (Columbia University), “Middle Horizon Tapestries: A Problem of Identity”
- Oswaldo Chinchilla (Vanderbilt University), “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), “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”
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1994–1995
Fellows
- Robert Haskett (University of Oregon), “The Eternal Altepetl: Concepts of Community and History in Cuernavaca's Primordial Titles”
- Frances Hayashida (University of Michigan), “Inka Artisans”
Junior Fellows
- Christopher Beekman (Vanderbilt University), “The Long-term Evolution of a Political Boundary: Archaeological Research in Jalisco, Mexico”
- Saburo Sugiyama (Arizona State University), “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”
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1993–1994
Fellows
- Catherine J. Allen (George Washington University), “Aesthetic Principles in Andean Art”
- James E. Brady (Vanderbilt University), “An Investigation of Maya Ritual Cave Use”
- Paul S. Goldstein (American Museum of Natural History), “Tiwanaku Hegemony and Peripheral Control”
- Dennis Tedlock (State University of New York at Buffalo), “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”
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1992–1993
Fellows
- Jerry D. Moore (California State University, Dominguez Hills), “New Approaches to the Study of Andean Architecture”
- Ruth Shady Solís (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú), “Investigaciones Arqueológicas sobre las Sociedades del Formativo en Bagua, Amazonas, Perú”
Junior Fellows
- Brian R. Billman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “The Evolution of Political Centralization in the Moche Valley, Peru”
- Mary Elizabeth Pye (Vanderbilt University), “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”
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1991–1992
Fellows
- Cecilia F. Klein (University of California, Los Angeles), “Fighting with Femininity: Gender and War in Aztec Discourse”
- Patricia A. McAnany (Boston University), “The Economic Expression of Social Inequality Among the Classic Maya”
- Jeanette E. Sherbondy (Washington College), “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), “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”
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1990–1991
Fellow
- John M. D. Pohl (University of California, Los Angeles), “The Codex Zouche-Nuttall”
Junior Fellows
- Heidy Fogel (Yale University), “A Comparative Study of the Gallinazo Occupations of the Viru and Moche Valleys, Peru”
- Barbara Mundy (Yale University), “The Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas of New Spain (1579–1586): Native Mapping in the Conquered Land”
- Javier Urcid (Yale University), “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”
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1989–1990
Fellows
- Peter Harrison (The University of New Mexico), “Spatial Geometry and Logic in the Ancient Maya Mind as Reflected in Monumental Architecture”
- Ross Hassig (Columbia University), “Warfare and the Mesoamerican Past”
- Ramiro Matos (Lima, Peru), “Pumpu: An Inca Regional Administrative City”
- Constanza Vega Sosa (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México), “Codice Azoyu 2: Historia y tributacíon en la provincia de Tlapa”
Junior Fellow
- Joanne Pillsbury (Columbia University), “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”
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1988–1989
Fellows
- Louise M. Burkhart (Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne), “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), “A Comparative Study of Ancient Maya Residencies”
Junior Fellows
- Bernd Fahmel-Beyer (Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM), “Monte Alban: Integración en una ciudad plural”
- Richard Wright (University of Virginia), “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 Sixteenth 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”
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1987–1988
Fellows
- Norman Hammond (Rutgers University, Spring), “A Study of the Non-Monumental Art and Iconography of the Maya Pre-Classic”
- Sabine MacCormack (Stanford University), “Between Two Worlds: History and Society in Early Colonial Peru”
- Meredith Paxton (The University of New Mexico), “The Relación de las cosas de Yucatán: Influences on the Development of a Maya Ethnohistorical Source”
- Carolyn Tate (University of California, Los Angeles), “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”
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1986–1987
Fellows
- Flora C. Clancy (The University of New Mexico), “The History of Maya Monumental Sculpture”
- Andrea Stone (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), “A Study of Cave Paintings and Petroglyphs from Naj Tunich, Guatemala”
Junior Fellows
- Bruce Love (University of California, Los Angeles), “A Commentary on the Paris Codex”
- Karl Taube (Yale University), “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”
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1985–1986
Fellow
- Emily Umberger (Arizona State University), “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), “Sacred Land, Sacred Water: Inca Landscape Planning in the Machu Picchu Area”
- Rebecca Rollins Stone (Yale University), “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”
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1984/85
Fellows
- William H. Isbell (State University of New York at Binghamton [SUNY]), “A Prehistoric Andean State: The Nature of Huari”
- Patricia Netherly (University of Massachusetts), “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]), “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”
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1983–1984
Junior Fellows
- Christopher Couch (Columbia University), “The Illustrations of the Durán Group of Manuscripts”
- David Stuart (Bethesda–Chevy Chase High School [Graduate]), “Ancient Maya Writing”
- Steven A. Wegner (University of California, Berkeley), “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.”
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1982–1983
Fellow
- David A. Freidel (Southern Methodist University), “Pre-Classic Art and Architecture at Cerros: A Lowland Maya Center in Belize”
Junior Fellow
- Carl P. Beetz (University of Pennsylvania), “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”
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1981–1982
Fellows
- John S. Justeson (University of South Carolina), “Comparative Studies of Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing”
- Virginia Elizabeth Miller (University of Texas, Austin), “The Stucco Frieze at Acancéh, Yucatán”
Summer Fellow
- Mario A. Rivera (Universidad de Chile), “Prehistory of the Meridional Andean Area”
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1980–1981
Fellows
- Richard Burger (University of California, Berkeley), “The Ideologies and Religious Styles of the Central Coast Ceremonial Network, the Northern Ceremonial Network, and the Chavin Cult”
- Richard L. Luxton
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1979–1980
Junior Fellows
- Mary Ellen Miller (Yale University), “The Murals of Bonampak”
- Anne Paul (University of Texas, Austin), “An Interpretation of Paracas Textile Iconography”
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1978–1979
Bliss Fellow
- Richard F. Townsend (University of Texas, Austin), “Tenochtitlan and the Valley of Mexico: Time and Space in Urban Symbolism”
Fellow
- Alan Louis Kolata (Harvard University), “Tree Symbolism in Ancient Mesoamerica”
- Richard F. Townsend
Junior Fellow
- Flora C. Clancy (Yale University), “A Formal Analysis of the Compositions and Carving Styles Found on Classic Maya Monuments”
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1977–1978
Fellow
Junior Fellows
- Jeff K. Kowalkski (Yale University)
Visiting scholar
- Floyd Lounsbury (Yale University)
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1976–1977
Junior Fellow
- Carlos B. Arostegui (Yale University), “The Iconography of the Mixtec Codices: The Personal Names”
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1975–1976
Junior Fellow
- Linda Schele (University of South Alabama)
Visiting scholar
- Robert L. Rands (Southern Illinois University, Fall)
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1974–1975
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), “Greca: An Exploratory Study of Relationships between Art, Society, and Personality”
Junior Fellow
- Peter David Joralemon (Yale University), “Corpus, Analysis, and Study of the Evolution of the Olmec Art Style”
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1973–1974
Visiting scholar
- Floyd Lounsbury (Yale University)
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1972–1973
Bliss Fellow
- Joyce Marcus (Harvard University), “A Reconstruction of the Socio-Political Structure of the Classic Maya with Inferences Drawn from the Iconography and Epigraphy”
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1971–1972
Bliss Fellow
- Chiaki Kano (University of Gakushuin & The University of Tokyo), “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)
Visiting Fellow
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1970–1971
Bliss Fellow
- Arthur Miller (Yale University), “A Systematic Study of the Iconography of Teotihuacán Mural Painting”