ELIZABETH M. BRUMFIEL

Dept. of Anthropology
Northwestern University
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
1810 Hinman Ave.
Evanston, IL 60208-1330
Phone: 847-491-4564
Fax: 847-467-1778
ebrumfiel@northwestern.edu

EDUCATION

1970-76 The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ph.D., Anthropology, 1976
Dissertation: Specialization and Exchange at the Late Postclassic (Aztec) Community of Huexotla, Mexico.

1968-69 The University of California, Los Angeles M.A., Anthropology, 1969
Thesis: "Supraorbital Prominence: A test of two hypotheses."

1962-65 The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor B.A., Anthropology, with distinction, 1965

EMPLOYMENT

1996 John S. Ludington, Endowed Professor, Albion College, Albion, Michigan. (Chair of Department of Anthropology and Sociology, 1992- ).

1989-1996 Professor Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Albion College, Albion, Michigan

1985-89 Associate Professor Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Albion College, Albion, Michigan (Chair of Department, 1982-89).

1977-85 Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Albion College, Albion, Michigan.

1970-77 Lecturer Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti.

1971, 1972 Teaching Fellow Department of Anthropology, The University of Michigan.

1967-68 Research Assistant Center for Population Planning, The University of Michigan.

1966-67 Peace Corps Volunteer, La Paz, Bolivia.

FIELD RESEARCH

1999, 1997, 2003 Principal investigator,” Household Strategies at Xaltocan, Mexico”.

1990-91 Principal investigator, excavations at Xaltocan, Mexico.

1987 Principal investigator, systematic surface collection and mapping at Xaltocan, Mexico.

1981 Field director, systematic surface collection and mapping at Xico, Mexico.

1979-94 Principal investigator, excavations at the Whitehouse Nature Center, Albion, Michigan.

1972-74 Field director, systematic surface collection at Huexotla, Mexico.

1971 Participant, settlement pattern survey, Monte Alban, Mexico. Richard E. Blanton, principal investigator.

1964 Participant, excavations at the Schultz site, Saginaw, Michigan. James E. Fitting, principal investigator.

PUBLICATIONS (Since 1997)

Books

in press (edited volume) Production and Power at Postclassic Xaltocan. Pittsburgh and Mexico City: University of Pittsburgh Department ofAnthropology and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

Articles

in press It’s A Material World: History, Artifacts and Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 32:205-23.

in press Meaning by design: Feasts, figured worlds, and Postclassic ceramics. To appear in Mesoamerica, R.A. Joyce and J. Hendon, eds. Oxford: Blackwell.

in press A role for archaeology in feminist and gender studies. To appear in M. Conkey and A. Wylie, Doing Archaeology as a Feminist. Santa Fe: School of American Research.

in press El hombre y el lago en Xaltocan postclásico. In M.C. Serra Puche, ed., El Hombre y el Lago en México. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

2002 (with Deborah L. Nichols, Hector Neff, Mary Hodge, Thomas H. Charlton, and Michael D. Glascock). Neutrons, markets, cities, and empires, A 1000-year perspective on ceramic production and distribution in the Postclassic Basin of Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21:25-82.

2001 States and civilizations, archaeology of. International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes, eds., pp.14983-14988. Oxford: Elsevier Science.

2001 Aztec hearts and minds: Religion and the state in the Aztec empire. In Susan E. Alcock, Terence N. D’Altroy, Kathleen D. Morrison, and Carla M. Sinopoli, eds., pp. 283-310. Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2001 Asking about Aztec gender: The historical and archaeological evidence. In C.F. Klein, ed., Recovering Gender in Prehispanic Mesoamerica, pp.57-84. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks.

2001 (with Meg Conkey, Matthew Gutmann, Rosemary Joyce, Susan Kellogg, and Alfredo López Austin) Debate: Analyzing Gender: Valid or Politically Correct? MESOLORE, L. Bakewell and B. Hamann, eds., Segment of CD-Rom. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources.

2000 The imperial subversion of Aztec Xaltocan. In Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather, E. Quiñones Keber, ed., pp. 181-190. Lancaster, CA: Labyrinthos.

2000 The politics of high culture: Issues of worth and rank. In Order, Legitimacy and Wealth in Ancient States, Janet Richards and Mary Van Buren, eds., pp.131-139. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2000 On the archaeology of choice: Agency studies as a research stratagem. In Agency in Archaeology, John Robb and Marcia-Anne Dobres, eds., pp.249-255. London: Routledge.

1998 Huitzilopochtli's thirst: Aztec ideology in the archaeological record. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8:3-13.

1998 The multiple identities of Aztec craft specialists. In C.L. Costin and R.P. Wright, eds., Craft and Social Identity, pp.145-152. Washington, D.C.: Archaeological Division of the American Anthropological Association.

1997 Tribute cloth production and compliance in Aztec and Colonial Mexico. In J.C. Nash and E. Schildkraut, eds., Artisan Production: Tradition transmitted and transformed, Special number of Museum Anthropology 21(2):55-71.

1997 Archaeologists dig collaboration. Anthropology Newsletter 38 (2):1, 8 and (5): 3.

HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS (Since 1997)

2001-2005, President-Elect and President, American Anthropological Association.

2002, Instructor, Invited Seminar, “El Postclásico en Xaltocan,” Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

2000-2002, Distinguished Lecturer, Sigma Xi.

2000, Distinguished Lecturer, Central States Anthropological Society.

1998-99, Program Chair, 98th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association.

1998, Keynote speaker, Fifth Gender and Archaeology Conference, Milwaukee.

1996-98, Program Chair, Archaeology Division, American Anthropological Association.

1997, David L. Clarke Memorial Lecture, University of Cambridge, England.

1997, Distinguished Lecturer in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, The University of Colorado.

1995-97, Editorial Committee, Annual Review of Anthropology.

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2001-2003, President-Elect, American Anthropological Association
2001-2003, Course Designer, Task Force on Curriculum, Society for American Archaeology
Advisory Editor, Current Anthropology.
Member, Editorial Board, Latin American Antiquity.
Member, Editorial Board, Ancient Mesoamerica.

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS

Gender, class and factional dynamics in prehistoric cultures.
Mesoamerican prehistory and ethnohistory.
Aztec women.