Welcome to the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies!

Dr. John Justeson , Director

John Edvalson , Graduate Assistant

The Institute for Mesoamerican Studies (IMS) is a non-profit educational research institute dedicated to the study and dissemination of knowledge concerning the peoples and cultures of Mesoamerica (Mexico and northern Central America). IMS serves to organize and coordinate the work of the Mesoamericanist faculty at the State University of New York at Albany. We have the largest number of full-time Mesoamericanists of any institution north of Mexico, and our members are among the most active and prominent scholars in the field of Mesoamerican anthropology. The primary activities of IMS are research and publication.

Current IMS Research Projects and Field Schools:

(This section is under construction.)

• Marilyn A. Masson: Belize Postclassic Project, The Economic Foundations of Mayapán, Yucatan
• Robert Rosenswig: San Estevan Archeological Field School, Archaic Belize Project
  

• Walter Little, Co-Director: Oxlajuj Aj: The Kaqchikel Maya Language and Culture Field School in Guatemala
• Louise M. Burkhart, Co-Editor and Co-Author: Nahuatl Theater Project
• Robert M. Carmack: Central American ethnology and teaching projects
  

• John Justeson: Co-Director: Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica
• John Justeson's and Terrence Kaufman's 2003 FAMSI report and preliminary on-line Mayan etymological dictionary (PDF file, 1535 pages)

The University at Albany:

• Department of Anthropology, University at Albany
• The University at Albany Main Site
  

You are welcome to contact the IMS:

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