Conrad Hamilton Craig Hanson Rebecca Hays Christine Hernandez Mesoamerican archeologist currently working in Michoacan, Mexico whose regions of special interest include the Bajio, Western, and Northern Mexico. I have worked extensively with prehistoric ceramics and I have a special interest in the development of anthropological theory concerning the origins of the state or complex societies, frontiers or interregional interaction, identifying ethnicity through material culture, and much more. Having received my B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I am currently in Tulane's Ph.D. progam for Mesoamerican Archaeology. My interests include the Northern Maya Lowlands, Formative Period Mesoamerica, the development of complex society, and Mesoamerican iconography. Current research activities include study of rural Maya sites and the management of land and water resources at Maya sites.
Fieldwork is currently in Belize, but has also worked in Highland Guatemala.
He is particularly interested in subsistence and settlement patterns, applications of remote sensing technology to archaeology, riverine geomorphology, and ceramic technofunctional analysis. Moriarty Elizabeth Mozzillo Christopher Nichols Christopher Nichols, originally from Santa Fe, NM, studied anthropology and Latin American Studies as an undergraduate at Stanford University, from which he graduated in 1988. He has been in the doctoral program in anthropology at Tulane Universtiy since 1991. He has conducted ethnographic and ethnohistoric research in Chiapas and Yucatan in Mexico and in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Anne Titelbaum Samuel Trachtenberg Interests include the origins of agriculture, faunal analysis, and the structure of archaeological thought.