1979
Rosalie Robertson, Quiche-Maya of Chichicastenango
in Highland Gutemala.
(Received Ph.D. in 1985 with the dissertation: Oneida Indian Educational
Planning in Wisconsin)
1980
Kazuyasu Ochiai, San Andres Larralnzar, a Tzotzil
Maya-speaking village in the Highlands of Chiapas , native mythology and ritual
energy.
(Received Ph.D. in 1983 with the dissertation: When the Saints Come Marching
In: A Micro-Analysis of Tipu and a Meta-Analysis of Twenty-Nine Paleodemographic
Symbols)
1981
Duncan Earle, Tzotzil Maya agrarian colony in the
Chiapas jungle: land use and self-suffiency.
(Received Ph.D. in 1984 with the dissertation: Cultural Logic and Ecology
in Community Development: Failure and Success Cases Among the Highland Maya.)
Staffan Brunius, Symbolic content and ritual functions
of Yucatec Maya bee culture: pre-Hispanic and colonial evidence and present-day
practices.
1982
Julie Benyo, Archaeology in the central part of Honduras
seen through ceramics.
(Received Ph.D. in 1986 with the dissertation: Archaeological Investigations
of Intra-Community Social Organizations at La Ceiba, Comayagua, Honduras.)
John Sosa, Yalcoba, Yucatan, symbolic analysis of
Yucatec Maya cosmology, rituals, etc.
(Became a shaman’s apprentice.
Received Ph.D. in 1985 with the dissertation: Maya Sky, the Maya World:
A Symbolic Analysis of Yucatec Maya Cosmology)
1983
Erica Verillo, Dialect variations and pronoun usage
in Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico.
Olya Szyka, Oral history and ethnography in a Tzotzil
Maya community, El Bosque (founded by Chamula Indians over 100 years ago,
after being exiled as a result of war).
1984
Liliana Goldin, Organizing the World through the
Market: a Symbolic Analysis of Markets and Exchange in the Western Highlands
of Guatemala.
(Received Ph.D. in 1986)
Catherine Balfour
1985
Quetzil Castañeda, An ‘Archaeology’ of
Chichén Itzá: Discourse, Power, and Resistance at a Maya Tourist
Site.
(Received Ph.D. in 1991)
1986
David Scotchmer
(Received Ph.D. in 1991; deceased 1995)
Peter Dunham
(Received Ph.D. in 1990)
1987
Lisa Van Eysden
1988
Antonella Fabri, Composing the Nation: Politics of
Memory and Displacement in Maya Testimonies from Guatemala.
(Received Ph.D. in 1994)
Alicia Re Cruz
(Received Ph.D. in 1992)
1989
Tricia Gabany, Deciphering the Symbolic Heritage
of the Tarascan Empire: Interpreting the Political Economy of the Pueblo-Hospital
of Parangaricuitiro, Michoacan.
(Received Ph.D. in 1999)
Thomas Jamison, Social Interaction and Architecture
in Southern Belize.
(Received Ph.D. in 1993)
Linda Asturias Barrios, Mano de Muher, Mano de Hombre: Producción
Artesanal Textil en Comalapa, Guatemala.
1990
Ricardo Vasquez
Linda Asturias Barrios
(Received Ph.D. in 1994)
1991
Brent Metz, Experiencing Conquest: The Political
and Economic Roots and Cultural Expression of Mayo-Chorti Ethos.
(Received Ph.D. in 1995)
1992
Silvia Salgado, Social Change in a Region of Granada,
Pacific Nicaragua (1000 B.C.-1522 A.D.).
(Received Ph.D. in 1996)
1993
Thomas van Alstyne
1994
Amadeo Meana
1995
Lisa Cascio, Teotihuacan Imperial Relations in the
Yautepc Valley, Morelos, Mexico.
Nancy Forand, Viewing the World-System from Below:
A Study of the Modern Maya.
1996
Nancy Forand, Maya Religious Pluralism: A Study of
Language, Gender, and Social Change.
(Received Ph.D. in 2001 with the dissertation: Mayas in the Age of Apocalypse:
Folk Catholics and Evangelicals in Quintana Roo)
Timothy Hare, Archaeological Survey of the Yautepec
Valley, Morelos, Mexico.
(Received Ph.D. in 2001 with the dissertation: Political Economy, Spatial
Analysis, and Postclassic States in the Yautepec Valley, Mexico)
1997
Annette McLeod, In Search of Nepantla: The Nahua
Construction and Maintenance of Churches in Colonial Mexico.
Jan Olson, The Agents of Power: Late Postclassic
Aztec Social Differentiation and Community Organization.
(Received Ph.D. in 2001: Unequal Consumption: A Study of Domestic Wealth
Differentials in Three Late Postclassic Mexican Communities)
1998
Bradley Tatar, Community Politics and Ethnic Persistence:
Monimbo, Masaya, Nicaragua. (Received Ph.D. in 2003 with the dissertation:
"Narrating the Revolution: Sandistas and the Politics of Memory in Masaya,
Nicaragua.")
Lisa Montiel, On the Border of the Teotihuacan Empire:
Archaeological Investigations in the Yautepec Valley, Mexico.
Timothy Hare, Aztec Ceramic Production and Market
Systems: Survey and Analysis of Clay Sources in the Yautepec Valley, Mexico.(Received
Ph.D. in 2001 with the dissertation: Political Economy, Spatial Analysis,
and Postclassic States in the Yautepec Valley, Mexico)
1999
Jinsook Choi, Language Choice and Language Ideology
of the K’iché Maya in Guatemala.
2000
Jinsook Choi, Language Choice in a Mayan Community:
The Politics of Identity Formation in Contemporary Guatemala.
Miguel Aguilera, A Survey of Maya Villages with Communicating
Crosses.
2001
Stewart Brewer, Guatemalan Archival Research on the
Chorti Maya.
(Received Ph.D. from the History Department, SUNY Albany.)
Elizabeth A. Hoag, Ceramics, Style and the Archaeology
of Social Boundaries from the Mixtequilla, Veracruz, Mexico.
2002
Jessica C. Child, An Archaeometric and Contextual
Study of Figurine Exchange at Piedras Negras, Guatemala.
(Received M.A. in 2002)
Lachlan Duncan, The Syntactic Structure of the Tz’utujil
Mayan Language.
Jonathan Maupin, Mesoamerican Cultural Logics and
Healing Strategies.
2003
Jerry Ek, The Champotón Regional Archaeological
Settlement Survey.
Josalyn Ferguson, Reevaluating the Maya “Collapse”: Opportunism,
Migration and Cultural Adjustment in the Terminal Classic Period, an Examination
of the Terminal Classic Strath Bogue Site, Belize.
Bradley Russell, The Mayapán Extra-Muralla Survey.(Received
Ph.D. in 2008 with the dissertation: "Postclassic Maya Settlment in the
Rural-Urban Fringe of Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico.")
2004
Edgar Martín del Campo, Polysemic Analysis
of the “Nagual” in Post-Colonial Mexican Folklore. (Received
Ph.D. in 2006 with the dissertation: "The Nagual hiding in shadows: Metamorphic
supernaturals, contested discourse, and the complications of fieldwork in the
Huasteca Veracruzana of Northeast Mexico.")
Jerry Ek, Political and Economic Change on the Gulf
Coast Periphery of the Maya Area: Classic to Postclassic in Champotón,
Campeche.
2005
Claudia Dary, Ethnic Identity, Community Organization
and Social Experience in Eastern Guatemala.(Received Ph.D. in 2008 with
the dissertation: "Ethnic Identity, Community Organization and Social Experience
in Eastern Guatemala: The Case of Santa Maria Xalapan.")
Maria Diaz Montejo, Traditional Performance in Jakaltenango:
A Preliminary Study of Mayan Tradition and Identity.
2006
Elizabeth Paris, Economic and Cultural Frontiers
of the Highland Maya.
2007
Erin Slinker, The Body Politic and Politics of the
Body: Transnational Adoption in Guatemala.
Nadia Marín-Guadarrama, ‘Qué
es, qué es, que sit e Obligo no lo Ves?’ Childrearing and the Cultural
Confrontation Between Spanish Friars and Nahuas of Central Mexico.
2008
Winston Scott, Beyond the Plantations: Emerging Economic
and Social Spaces in Senahu, Guatemala.
Kosuke Matsukawa, Linguistic Documentation of Chicahuaxtla
Triqui.
Jared R. Latimer, Sociopolitical Development in the
Atlantic Watershed, Costa Rica.
2009
Courtney Kurlanska, The Birthplace of Migration to Costa Rica: the Nicaraguan Sending Community. (Received Ph.D. in 2012)
Jason Paling, Mass Analysis of Lithic Debitage from Hamontún and K'o, Guatemala and San Estevan, Belize.
2010
Marx Navarro Castillo
Sarah Taylor (Received Ph.D. in 2012)
2011
Gabriela Aquino Dehesa
Christine Prebble
2011
Caroline Antonelli
James Shuford