Curriculum Vita
Apr 5th, 2006 by carrasco
The following is a shortened version of my CV. For the full version please contact me.
EDUCATION
The University of Texas at Austin, Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, August 2005
Dissertation: The Mask Flange Iconographic Complex: The Art, Ritual, and History of a Maya Sacred Image.
The University of Texas at Austin, Master of Arts in Art History, December 1998
Thesis: Censing the Day, Censing the Night: Prolegomena to the Study of Palenque’s Masked-Flanged Incensarios
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Bachelor of Arts, University Major in Archaeology with Honors in General Scholarship, 1995. Thesis: The Changing Faces of the Gods: Aesthetics, Spectacle, and Rulership Among the Ancient Maya.
TEACHING FIELDS AND INTERESTS
Precolumbian art and architecture
Mayan hieroglyphic language and writing
Historical linguistics and poetics
Yucatec Mayan language, ethnology, and history
Image theory and semiotics
Ceramic history
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor of Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee. Beginning Fall 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. 2006-Present
Luther Gregg Sullivan Visiting Scholar in Art History, Department of Art and Art History, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. 2003-2006
Assistant Instructor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin (Instructor of record). 2002-2003
Teaching Assistant, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin. 2000-2002
Assistant English Teacher for the Kamae Board of Education in conjunction with the JET Program. Kamae, Oita-ken, Japan. 1995-1996
FIELD RESEARCH
2006 Yucatan, Santa Elena collection of oral narratives.
2005 Yucatan, Mexico on Folklore and Yucatec Mayan language.
2004 Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, photographic documentation of architecture.
2004 Yucatan, Santa Elena and Xocen on Yucatec Mayan language.
2001 Copan, Honduras, photographic documentation of Copan Sculpture.
2000 Xocen, Mexico on Yucatec architectural terminology and related symbolism.
2000 Antigua, Guatemala on Ch’orti’ Mayan language.
1997 Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, photographic documentation of Palenque incensarios.
1992 Soissons, France, Student excavator on the Wesleyan-Brown Archaeology Project at the Medieval abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes.
PUBLICATIONS
A Maya Cosmogram: The Changing Styles and Contexts of the Mask-Flange Iconographic Complex. In, Art for Archaeology’s Sake: Material Culture and Style across the Disciplines, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Canada, pp. 203-210. 2005
Mak-”Portal” Rituals Uncovered: An Approach to Interpreting Symbolic Architecture and the Creation of Sacred Space Among the Maya. In, Continuity and Change: Maya Religious Practices in Temporal Perspective. (co-author Kerry Hull) 5th European Maya Conference, University of Bonn, Germany Dec. 2000. Acta Mesoamericana, Vol. 14, pp.131-142. 2004
The Cosmogonic Symbolism of the Corbeled Vault in Maya Architecture. (co-author Kerry Hull) Mexicon Volume XXIV, No. 2, April, pp. 26-32. 2002
The Incensario Stands of Palenque. Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute Newsletter 25:9 San Francisco. 1998
NOTEBOOKS AND WEBSITES
Unaahil B’aak: The Temples of Palenque. Wesleyan University Learning Objects at http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/palenque/. 2004-present
Ko’ox Xokik le Úuchben Ts’íibil Maaya T’aane’: An Introduction to Hieroglyphic Mayan. The Notebook for the Workshop on Maya Hieroglyphic Writing for the Summer Intensive Course in Yucatec Maya. The Consortium in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, conducted at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Yucatán, Mexico. 2004
SELECTED PAPERS
Pleasing the Hearts of their Gods: The Architectural, Sculptural, and Literary Legacy of K’inich Janaab Pakal and K’inich Kan B’ahlam. Maya Society of Minnesota, May 4, 2007.
Unaahil B’aak: A Look at the Ancient Maya City of Palenque through the Digital Lens (co-author Anne Loyer and the Learning Objects Team, Wesleyan University). In, “Beyond Illustration: 3D reconstructions, Virtual Reality, and Archaeological Communications in the early 21st Century,” Society of American Archaeologists, Austin, April 25-29, 2007.
B’oox Kib’: The Black Wax Guardians of Yucatecan Milpas. (co-author William Blunk). In, Revisiting Latin America: Local Knowledge, Cultural Practice, and the Remaking of Identity, 104th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, December 1, 2005.
Incensarios, Icons, and Sacral Presence: Some Observations on the use of sacred objects in the history of Palenque. In, Ceremonial Paraphernalia in Mesoamerica: The Tools of the Ritual Specialist. Tools of the Trade: Methods, Techniques and Innovative Approaches in Archaeology, 38th Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Canada, November 10-13, 2005.
In the House of Cool Women and Hot Men: Parentage Statements, Engendered Language, and the Maya’s Conception of Creation in Darkness. In, Once More, with Feeling: Fifteen Years of Gender Archaeology, 37th Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Canada, November 10-14, 2004.
Rabbits, Gods, and Kings: The Interplay of Myth and History on the Regal Rabbit Vase (co-author Robert Wald). In, “Sub Umbra, Floreo”: Patronage, Betrayal, and Revenge: Diplomacy and Politics in the Eastern Maya Lowlands, 28th Annual Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin, March 11-20, 2004.
Water in Classic Period Creation Mythology, Imagery, and Liturgy. In, Sacred Water in Mesoamerican Cosmology, 36th Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Canada, November 12-16, 2003
Compound and Complex Noun Formation in Hieroglyphic Mayan. 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 19-23, 2003.
Art and Divinity: The Ritual and Stylistic Development of the Incensarios of Palenque. 26th Annual Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin, March 7-16, 2002.
Mak-”Portal” Rituals Uncovered: An Approach to Interpreting Symbolic Architecture and the Creation of Sacred Space Among the Maya. (Kerry Hull co-author) The Fifth European Maya Conference, University of Bonn, Germany, December 9-10, 2000.
A Maya Cosmogram: The Changing Styles and Contexts of the Mask-Flange Iconographic Complex. 33rd Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Canada, November 8-12, 2000.
Rituals of Dedication, Rituals of Renewal. 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 17-21, 1999.
