IMS Student Associates

Abstracts of previous IMS Associate dissertations are available on-line.

ARCHAEOLOGY
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
LINGUISTICS
Robert Hutchinson
Maya studies, ethnicity, religion and ritual; the southeast Maya Periphery
María Diaz Montejo
Guatemala, Maya Ethnicity, Folklore, Identity Politics, Cultural Performance, Economics and Transnationalism

Kosuke Matsukawa
Mesoamerican languages

Elizabeth Hoag
Economic anthropology, ceramics, political organization, and spatial archaeology; Mixtequilla
Winston Scott
Shamanism in the Western Guatemala Highlands; ritual language; violent / non-violent behavioral separation
Lachlan Duncan
Elizabeth Paris
Economy, social complexity, interregional interaction, status, mortuary practices, copper artifacts; Mayapán.
Fernando Ocampo
Mesoamerica; colonial Mexico; ethnic identity; language and culture; reversals of the Conquest
Josalyn Ferguson
Maya Prehistory, the Terminal Classic, migration, cave use, architecture, ceramics
Nadia Marín-Guadarrama
Ethnohistory, Nahuatl, Central Mexico, ethnography of communication, folklore, gender and feminism; Mazahua women in the State of Mexico
Jenn Newman
Maya epigraphy, iconography, ceramics, residue analysis
Roger J. Cooper
Maya codices, epigraphy, iconography, and calendrics; Yucatec
Jerry Ek
Settlement patterns; political organization; Maya Lowlands; Southern Gulf Coast; Champoton
Catherine Stanford
Nicaragua, religion, politics, social movements; environmental and applied anthropology
Bradley Russell
Postclassic Mayapán and northern Belize; survey, ceramics, religion
Justin Lowry
Mesoamerican archaeology, paleoclimatology, GIS

Erin Slinker
Guatemala, cultural anthropology

Jason Scott Paling
Maya political organization; environmental reconstruction
Claudia Dary
ethnicity, identity, common lands
Jared Latimer
Classic and Postclassic Maya; religious ritual; astroarchaeology; agricultural ritual.
David Fleischer
Anthropology of tourism, urban anthropology, environment and ecotourism; Mexico and Brazil
Courtney Kurlanska
Globalization, migration, and immigration in Central America; Nicaragua

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