ROSEMARY A. JOYCE

Education

May 1978 AB Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in Anthropology and Archaeology

May 1985 PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dissertation: Cerro Palenque, Valle del Ulua, Honduras: Terminal Classic Interaction on the Southern Mesoamerican Periphery.

Employment history

University of California, Berkeley: Professor, Anthropology (July 2001-present); Associate Professor (July 1994- June 2001); Director, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology (July 1994-June 1999)

Harvard University: Lecturer (July 1986-July 1989), Assistant Professor (July 1989-June 1991), Associate Professor (June 1991-June 1994) in Anthropology; Assistant Curator of Precolumbian Archaeology (September 1985-June 1994), Assistant Director (July 1986-July 1989), Peabody Museum

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Lecturer in Anthropology (August 1984-May 1985)

Jackson (Michigan) Community College: Instructor, Social Sciences department (August 1983-January 1984)

Research experience

Archaeology field work

Co-Director (with John S. Henderson), Proyecto Arqueológico Valle Inferior del Río Ulúa 1992-present

Honduras 17 months excavations, lab analyses, obsidian source survey

Co-Director (with Julia A. Hendon), Proyecto Arqueologico Cataguana y Oloman, Yoro 1988-1993

Honduras nine months settlement survey, excavation, and lab analyses

Field crew director, Proyecto Arqueológico Valle de Sula (John S. Henderson, Director) 1979-1987

Honduras 32 months settlement survey, excavations, and lab analyses

Crew member, Pratt and Pratt Archaeological consultants (Peter and Marjorie Pratt, PIs) 1976, 1978

New York three months survey, excavations, lab analyses for cultural resources impact statements

Fellowships, prizes and awards

Distinguished Lecturer, Archeology Division of the American Anthropological Association. November 2003.

Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. September 2001- May 2002.

(Margaret Conkey, Rosemary Joyce and Ruth Tringham) Educational Initiative Award, "Multimedia Authoring in Anthropology", University of California, Berkeley. May 2001.

Fellowship, University of California Humanities Research Institute, “Microcosms: Objects of Knowledge”, convened by Bruce Robertson. January-June 1999.

Fellowship, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, "Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica", 1992-1993.

Other research activities

Participant in Maya Ceramic Conference, El Cayo, Belize, June 1991.

Participant in conferences on archaeological ceramics of Honduras, July 1986, 1987, 1988.

Study of Ulua Valley ceramic collections, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, April 1986, and Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Spring 1985.

Advanced Workshop in Maya Writing, March 1987, and Introductory Workshop on Maya Hieroglyphic Writing, March 1980. Center for Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin.

Extramural research funding

National Science Foundation, "The Archaeoethnobotany of Theobroma cacao in Mesoamerica" (Christine A. Hastorf, co-PI), January 15, 2002-December 30, 2003.

National Science Foundation, “Social Dynamics of Early Formative Honduras: Excavations at Puerto Escondido (CR-372), lower Ulua River Valley”, April 15, 1999-December 30, 2000.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, for obsidian source survey and technical analyses, lower Ulua Valley, Honduras. July 1997- October 1998.

Heinz Charitable Fund, for investigation of Early Formative Puerto Escondido, Honduras. June -December 1997.

Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Incorporated, funding for investigation of Early Formative building, Puerto Escondido, Honduras. January 1996-July 1996.

NSF, Proyecto Arqueológico Cataguana y Oloman, Yoro, Honduras. June 1988-July 1989

NEH Travel to Collections Program, research on Honduran ceramics in United States collections. Fall 1984, Spring 1986.

Organization of American States Fellowship for field research in Honduras. February-July 1983.

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for field research in Honduras. December 1981- December 1982.

University research funding

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, Research Enabling Grant, for archival research on colonial Honduras at the AGCA, Guatemala. July 2003-June 2004.

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, Research Assistantship in the Humanities, to support Kira Blaisdell-Sloan to assist in archival research on colonial history of northern Honduras. July 2003-June 2004.

Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, University of California, Berkeley, funding research assistance for analysis and report writing on the archaeology of the Formative Period Ulua River Valley, Honduras. Fall-Spring 1996-1997, 1997-1998, Fall 1998, Fall-Spring 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003. Summer Stipend, 1997.

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, Research Enabling Grant, for work on second edition of "Pottery of Prehispanic Honduras". July 2002-June 2003.

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, Faculty Research Grant, to explore feasibility of regional approach to exploration of Early Formative archaeology in northern Honduras. July 2001-September 2002.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, funding for pilot palaeoethnobotany project in Honduras. June-July 2000.

Stahl Endowment, University of California, Berkeley, funding for excavations at Puerto Escondido, Honduras. June-August 2000.

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, funding for publication of Beyond Kinship (University of Pennsylvania Press). July 1999-June 2000.

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, Research Assistantship in the Humanities, to support Holly Sullivan Bachand in the production of a Corpus of Formative Period Mesoamerican Art. July 1999-June 2000.

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, funding for analysis of ceramics from Cerro Palenque, Honduras. July 1998-June 1999.

Stahl Endowment, University of California, Berkeley, funding for excavations at Cerro Palenque, Honduras. June-August 1998.

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, funding for chemical characterization of obsidian from Honduras. July 1997-June 1998.

Stahl Endowment, University of California, Berkeley, funding for graduate student participation in excavations at Puerto Escondido, Honduras. June-July 1997.

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, funding for radiocarbon dating of Formative Period site in Honduras. July 1996-June 1997.

William V. Power Academic Exchange Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, funding for travel to Honduras. June 1996.

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor's Special Computer Equipment and Software Grant Program, funding for purchase of computer projection system. 1996.

Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, funding for investigation of obsidian sources used during Formative Period in Honduras. July 1995-June 1996.

Peabody Museum Bowditch Exploration Fund support for research in Honduras. 1992, 1993.

Harvard University Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Tinker Foundation grant to support research in Belize and Honduras. Summer 1991, Summer 1990.

University of Illinois Graduate College and University Fellowships to support dissertation completion. Spring and Summer 1984.

University of Illinois Graduate College Research Grant for field research in Honduras. Spring 1981.

University of Illinois Department of Anthropology grant and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies-Tinker Foundation Research Fellowship to support field research in Honduras. Summer 1980.

University of Illinois Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies grant for participation in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing Workshop, University of Texas at Austin. Spring 1980.

Publications

Books

2003 (Lynn M. Meskell and Rosemary A. Joyce) Embodied Lives: Figuring Ancient Egypt and the Classic Maya. Routledge, London.

2002 The Languages of Archaeology: Dialogue, Narrative, and Writing. Blackwell, Oxford.

2001 Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica. University of Texas Press.

2000 Sister Stories (Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn Guyer and Michael Joyce). New York University Press Online Division. http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/sisterstories.

1995 (Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan A. M. Shumaker) Encounters with the Americas. Peabody Museum Press.

1991 Cerro Palenque: Power and Identity on the Maya Periphery. University of Texas Press, Austin.

Edited volumes

2003 (Julia A. Hendon and Rosemary A. Joyce, eds) Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice. Blackwell Global Studies in Archaeology. Blackwell, Malden, MA.

2000 (Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie, eds) Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies. University of Pennsylvania Press.

1999 (David C. Grove and Rosemary A. Joyce, eds) Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC.

1997 (Cheryl Claassen and Rosemary A. Joyce, eds) Women in Prehistory: North American and Mesoamerica. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

1993 (ed) Maya History by Tatiana Proskouriakoff. University of Texas Press, Austin. Spanish language edition published 1994 as Historia Maya por Tatiana Proskouriakoff. Siglo XXII, Mexico.

Articles

in press Making Something of Herself: Embodiment in Life and Death at Playa de los Muertos, Honduras. Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

in press (Holly Bachand, Rosemary A. Joyce, and Julia A. Hendon) Bodies Moving in Space: Ancient Mesoamerican Human Sculpture and Embodiment. Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

2003 Archaeology and Nation Building: A View from Central America. In Nationalism and Archaeology, edited by Susan Kane. Archaeological Institute of America Monograph.

2003 Concrete Memories: Fragments of the Past in the Classic Maya Present (500-1000 AD). In Archaeologies of Memory, Ruth Van Dyke and Susan Alcock, editors. Blackwell.

2003 Las raíces de la tradición funeraria maya en prácticas mesoamericanas del período Formativo. In Antropología de la eternidad: La muerte en la cultura Maya, Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, Mario Humberto Ruz Sosa y Maria Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León, eds., pp. 7-34. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas.

2003 (Deborah L. Nichols, Rosemary A. Joyce, and Susan D. Gillespie) Is Archaeology Anthropology? and Archaeology is Anthropology. In Archaeology as Anthropology, Susan D. Gillespie and Deborah L. Nichols, editors. Archaeology Division of the American Anthropology Association, Monograph 11.

2003 Working in Museums as an Archaeological Anthropologist. In Archaeology as Anthropology, Susan D. Gillespie and Deborah L. Nichols, editors. Archaeology Division of the American Anthropology Association, Monograph 11.

2003 (Jeanne Lopiparo and Rosemary Joyce) Crafting Cosmos, Telling Sister Stories, and Exploring Archaeological Knowledge Graphically In Hypertext Environments. In Ancient Muses: Archaeology and the Arts, John H. Jameson Jr., Christine Finn, and John E. Ehrenhard, editors. University of Alabama Press.

2002 Desiring women: Classic Maya sexualities. In Ancient Maya Gender Identity and Relations, edited by Lowell Gustafson and Amelia Trevelyan, pp. 329-344. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.

2002 Comment on "The Goddess diffracted: Thinking about the figurines of early villages" by Richard Lesure. Current Anthropology 43 (4).

2002 Academic Freedom, Stewardship, and Cultural Heritage: Weighing the Interests of Stakeholders in Crafting Repatriation Approaches. In The Dead and their Possessions: Repatriation in principle, policy and practice, edited by Cressida Fforde, Jane Hubert and Paul Turnball, pp. 99-107. London: Routledge.

2002 Beauty, Sexuality, Body Ornamentation and Gender in Ancient Mesoamerica. In In Pursuit of Gender, edited by Sarah Nelson and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, pp. 81-92. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek.

2002 Comment on "The social life of pre-sunrise things: Indigenous Mesoamerican archaeology" by Byron Hamann. Current Anthropology 43:374-375.

2001 Burying the Dead at Tlatilco: Social Memory and Social Identities. In New Perspectives on Mortuary Analysis, Meredith Chesson, editor, pp. 12-26. Archaeology Division of the American Anthropology Association, Monograph 10.

2001 Negotiating Sex and Gender in Classic Maya Society. In Gender in Pre-Hispanic America, Cecelia Klein, editor, pp. 109-141. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C..

2001 (Rosemary A. Joyce and John S. Henderson) Beginnings of Village Life in Eastern Mesoamerica. Latin American Antiquity 12 (1): 5-24.

2001 Planificación urbana y escala social: reflexiones sobre datos de comunidades clásicas en Honduras. In Reconstruyendo la ciudad Maya: El urbanismo en las sociedades antiguas, Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, Maria Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León and Maria del Carmen Marínez Martínez, eds., pp. 123-136. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas. Publicación S.E.E.M. No. 6.

2001 (Elizabeth M. Perry and Rosemary A. Joyce) Providing a Past for Bodies that Matter: Judith Butler's Impact on the Archaeology of Gender. Special Issue: Butler Matters: Judith Butler Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies Since Gender Trouble. International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies 6 (1 and 2): 63-76.

2001 Crocodile, Serpent, and Shark: Powerful Animals in Olmec and Maya Art, Belief and Ritual. In Forests and Civilizations, edited by Yoshinori Yasuda, pp. 71-84. International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto; Lustre Press/Roli Books, New Delhi.

2000 A Precolumbian Gaze: Male Sexuality Among the Ancient Maya. In Archaeologies of Sexuality, Barb Voss and Rob Schmidt, eds, pp. 263-283. Routledge Press, London. (Book awarded Ruth Benedict prize)

2000 (Rosemary A. Joyce and Julia A. Hendon) Heterarchy, History, and Material Reality: ‘Communities’ in Late Classic Honduras. In The Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective, Marcello-Andrea Canuto and Jason Yaeger, eds, pp. 143-159. Routledge Press, London.

2000 High Culture, Mesoamerican Civilization, and the Classic Maya Tradition. In Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States, Janet Richards and Mary Van Buren, eds, pp. 64-76. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

2000 Heirlooms and Houses: Materiality and Social Memory. In Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies. University of Pennsylvania Press (Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie, eds), pp. 189-212. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

2000 Girling the girl and boying the boy: The production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica. World Archaeology31 (3):473-483.

1999 Symbolic Dimensions of Costume in Classic Maya Monuments: The Construction of Gender Through Dress. In Mayan Clothing and Weaving Through The Ages, Barbara Knoke de Arathoon, Nancie L. Gonzalez, and John M. Willemsen Devlin, eds, pp. 29-38. Museo Ixchel del Traje Indígena, Guatemala.

1999 Social Dimensions of Pre-Classic Burials. In Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica, edited by David C. Grove and Rosemary A. Joyce, pp. 15-47. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC.

1999 (Rosemary A. Joyce and David C. Grove) Asking New Questions about the Mesoamerican Pre-Classic. In Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica, edited by David C. Grove and Rosemary A. Joyce, pp. 1-14. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC.

1998 (John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce) Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Puerto Escondido: Definición del FormativoTemprano en el Valle Inferior del Río Ulúa. Yaxkin XVII:5-35. Tegucigalpa.

1998 Performing the Body in Prehispanic Central America. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Spring 1998, 33:147-165.

1998 (Susan Gillespie and Rosemary Joyce) Deity Relationships in Mesoamerican Cosmologies: The Case of the Maya GodL. Ancient Mesoamerica 9:1-18.

1997 (Rosemary Joyce and Cheryl Claassen) Women in the Ancient Americas: Archaeologists, Gender, and the Making of Prehistory. In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by Cheryl Claassen and Rosemary Joyce, pp. 1-14. University of Pennsylvania Press.

1997 (Susan Gillespie and Rosemary Joyce) Gendered Goods: The Symbolism of Maya Hierarchical Exchange Relations. In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by Cheryl Claassen and Rosemary Joyce, pp. 189-207. University of Pennsylvania Press.

1996 Dorothy Hughes Popenoe: Eve in an archaeological garden. Reprinted in Contemporary Archaeology in Theory, edited by Ian Hodder and Robert Preucel, pp. 501-515. Basil Blackwell.

1996 Social dynamics of exchange: Changing patterns in the Honduran archaeological record. In Chieftains, Power and Trade: Regional Interaction in the Intermediate Area of the Americas, edited by Carl Henrik Langebaek and Felipe Cardenas-Arroyo, pp. 31-46. Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de los Andes. Bogota, Colombia.

1996 The Construction of Gender in Classic Maya Monuments. In Gender in Archaeology: Essays in Research and Practice, edited by Rita Wright, pp. 167-195. University of Pennsylvania Press.

1995 Comment on "Engendering Tomb 7 at Monte Alban: Respinning an Old Yarn" by Geoffrey and Sharisse McCafferty. Current Anthropology35 (3):284-285.

1994 Dorothy Hughes Popenoe: Eve in an archaeological garden. Women in Archaeology, edited by Cheryl Claassen, pp. 51-66. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

1993 Women's Work: Images of Production and Reproduction in Prehispanic Southern Central America. Current Anthropology 34(3):255-274

1993 The construction of the Maya Periphery and the Mayoid image of Honduran polychrome ceramics. Reinterpreting Prehistory of Central America, edited by Mark Miller Graham, pp. 51-101. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.

1993 Introduction. Maya History by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, pp. xvii-xxv. University of Texas Press, Austin.

1993 A Key to Ulua Polychromes. In Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis, John S. Henderson and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, eds., pp. 257-280. UCLA Institute of Archaeology Monograph 35. Los Angeles.

1993 (Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, John S. Henderson, and Rosemary Joyce) Approaches to the Analysis of Pre-Columbian Honduran Ceramics. In Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis, John S. Henderson and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, eds., pp. 3-6. UCLA Institute of Archaeology Monograph 35. Los Angeles.

1993 Terminal Preclassic (Middle Chamelecón Phase) Quequeo complex. In Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis, John S. Henderson and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, eds., pp. 82-86. UCLA Institute of Archaeology Monograph 35. Los Angeles.

1993 Terminal Classic (Santiago Phase). In Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis, John S. Henderson and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, eds., pp. 124-130 UCLA Institute of Archaeology Monograph 35. Los Angeles.

1993 Early Postclassic (Botija Phase) Crique Complex. In Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis, John S. Henderson and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, eds., pp. 132-133. UCLA Institute of Archaeology Monograph 35. Los Angeles.

1993 (Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett and Rosemary Joyce) Early Classic I (Late Chamelecón Phase) Western Valley. In Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis, John S. Henderson and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, eds., pp. 86-103. UCLA Institute of Archaeology Monograph 35. Los Angeles.

1993 (Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett and Rosemary Joyce) Late Classic (Late Ulua Phase) Western Valley. In Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis, John S. Henderson and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, eds., pp. 106-122. UCLA Institute of Archaeology Monograph 35. Los Angeles.

1992 Dimensiones simbolicas del traje en monumentos clasicos Mayas: La construccion del genero a traves del vestido. La Indumentaria y el Tejido Mayas a Traves del Tiempo, edited by Linda Asturias and Dina Fernandez, pp. 29-38. Monograph 8 of the Museo Ixchel del Traje Indígena, Guatemala.

1992 Innovation, Communication and the Archaeological Record: A Reassessment of Middle Formative Honduras. Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society 20 (1 and 2):235-256.

1992 Ideology in action: The rhetoric of Classic Maya ritual practice. Ancient Images, Ancient Thought: The Archaeology of Ideology, Papers from the 23rd Chac Mool Conference, A. Sean Goldsmith, Sandra Garvie, David Selin and Jeannette Smith, eds., pp. 497-506. Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

1992 Classic Maya images of gender and labor. Exploring Gender Through Archaeology: Selected Papers from the 1991 Boone Conference, edited by Cheryl Claessen. Monographs in World Archaeology, No. 11. Prehistory Press, Madison, WI.

1991 (Rosemary Joyce, Richard Edging, Karl Lorenz and Susan Gillespie) Olmec Bloodletting: An Iconographic Study. The Sixth Palenque Round Table, 1986, Volume VIII, edited by Merle Greene Robertson and Virginia Fields, pp.143-150. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

1988 The Ulua Valley and the Coastal Maya Lowlands: The View from Cerro Palenque. The Southeast Classic Maya Zone Gordon R. Willey and Elizabeth Boone, eds, pp. 269-295. Dumbarton Oaks Foundation, Washington.

1988 Comment on "Why Pots are Decorated" by Nicholas David, Judy Sterner, and Kodzo Gavua. Current Anthropology 29 (3): 383-384.

1988 Ceramic traditions and language groups of prehispanic Honduras. Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society, 15 (1 and 2): 158-186.

1988 Ceramic Units of Terminal Classic Cerro Palenque. Ceramica de Cultura Maya, et al. 15: 31-34. Philadelphia.

1987 Intraregional ceramic variation and social class: developmental trajectories of Classic Period ceramic complexes from the Ulua Valley. Interaction on the Southeast Mesoamerican Frontier, E.J. Robinson, ed., pp. 280-303. BAR International Series 327 (ii).

1987 The Terminal Classic Ceramics of Cerro Palenque: An eastern outlier of the Boca ceramic sphere. Maya Ceramics: Papers from the Maya Ceramic Conference, 1985. Prudence Rice and Robert Sharer, eds., pp. 397-430. BAR Publications International Series 345 (ii).

1986 Terminal Classic Interaction on the Southern Mesoamerican Periphery. American Antiquity 51 (2):313-329.

1985 Resultados preliminares de investigaciones en Cerro Palenque. YaxkinVIII(1y2):175-189. Tegucigalpa.

1982 La zona arqueologica de Cerro Palenque. Yaxkin V (2): 95-101. Tegucigalpa

1981 Classic Maya kinship and descent: an alternative suggestion. Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society 13 (1): 45-58.

Participation at professional meetings

Keynote addresses and invited participation in conferences

2003 Plenary speaker, "The Monumental and the Trace: Archaeological conservation and the materiality of the past". World Archaeological Congress, Washington, DC.

2003 Invited speaker, "Remembrance of things past? On memory, aging, and the continuity of experience in Classic Maya society". Excavating Memories: The archaeology of remembering and forgetting. Columbia University, New York.

2002 Invited speaker, "Las raices de la tradición funeraria maya en practicas mesoamericanas del periodo formativo". Presented in "Och B'ih; Entrar en el camino: La muerte en la cultura Maya". Sexta Mesa Redonda de La Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas. Santiago Compostela, Spain.

2002 Plenary speaker, "Making Something of Herself". Seventh Gender and Archaeology Conference. Sonoma State University, Santa Rosa, CA.

2002 Invited speaker, "Solid Histories for Fragile Nations: Archaeology as Cultural Patrimony". Presented in "Beyond Ethics: Anthropological Moralities on the Boundaries of the Public and the Professional" (Peter Pels and Lynn M. Meskell, organizers). Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Symposium 130, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico.

2000 Invited speaker, "Planificación urbana y escala social: reflexiones sobre datos de comunidades clásicas en Honduras". Presented in "La ciudad antigua: Espacios, conjuntos, e integración sociocultural en la civilizacion Maya". Quinta Mesa Redonda de La Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas. Yalladolid, Spain.

1999 Invited speaker, "Archaeology and Nation Building: A View from Central America". In the AIA Presidential Panel "Nationalism andArchaeology" (Susan Kane, organizer). Archaeological Institute of America,Dallas.

1999 Keynote address, “Academic Freedom, Stewardship, and Cultural Heritage: Weighing the Interests of Stakeholders in Crafting Repatriation Approaches”. Fourth World Archaeological Congress, Capetown, South Africa.

1998 Invited speaker, “Beauty, Sexuality, Body Ornamentation and Gender in Ancient Mesoamerica”. Presented at “Worldwide Archaeological Perspectives on Women and Gender”, organized by Myriam Rosen-Ayalon and Sarah Nelson. Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.

1998 Invited participant, “Telling stories”. For the School of American Research conference “Doing Archaeology as a Feminist” (Alison Wylie and Margaret Conkey, organizers). Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1998 Invited speaker, “A Mesoamerican History of Body Ornamentation: Bodily Memory as Social Memory”. Presented at “Thinking through the body: The First Lampeter Workshop in Archaeology.” Archaeology Department, University of Wales, Lampeter.

1998 Invited speaker, “Mesa Redonda” and “Relaciones arqueologicos entre Honduras y Nicaragua”. Primer Congreso Arqueologico Centroamericano, Managua, Nicaragua.

1996 Invited speaker, "Negotiating Sex and Gender in Classic Maya Society". In the session "Recovering Gender in Precolumbian America" (Cecelia Klein, organizer). Dumbarton Oaks, Precolumbian Studies Symposium, Washington D.C..

1996 Keynote address, "Making a Difference Doing Archaeology: The Effects of Taking Women, Gender, and Feminist Perspectives Into Account". 18th Annual Undergraduate Conference of the University of Minnesota Department of Anthropology, "Feminist Anthropology and Feminist Archaeology".

1996 Invited speaker, "Constructions of the Body: Perspectives on Central American Material Practices". Presented at "Precolumbian States of Being", the Dumbarton Oaks Precolumbian Studies Round Table. Washington, DC.

1995 Invited speaker, "Animals in Olmec and Maya Art, Ritual and Belief". Presented at the International Conference on Cultures of the Great Woods, Nara and Kyoto, Japan.

1995 Invited speaker, "Religion Popular y Religion del Estado". A symposium organized by the Instituto Hondureño de Antropología y Historia. Copan, Honduras.

1993 Invited participant, panel discussion, "Othering and the New History" (Rosemary Hale, organizer). American Academy of Religion, Washington.

1993 Invited speaker, "Social dimensions of Pre-Classic burials: Tlatilco, La Venta, and greater Mesoamerica". In the symposium "Ritual Behavior, Social Identity and Cosmology in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica" (David C. Grove and Rosemary A. Joyce, organizers). Dumbarton Oaks, Precolumbian Studies Symposium, Washington D.C..

1993 Invited speaker, "Classic Maya costume and gender". In the Mellon Foundation Seminar "Cross-dressers, Gender-benders, and Trouble-makers: New examinations into transvestism." Occidental College.

1993 Invited participant, panel discussion of "Engendering archaeology's past and present". In the conference "Multiple Voices, Multiple Pasts: Toward a Multivocal Archaeology". University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1990 Invited participant, "Precolumbian art on the Maya Periphery: The Ulua Polychrome Tradition of Honduras". In "The Central Americans and their Neighbors", a symposium at the Denver Museum of Natural History, sponsored by the Center for Central American Art and Archaeology, University of Colorado, Boulder.

1990 Invited participant, panel discussion of "Stratification in Precolumbian Mesoamerica". Northeast Mesoamericanists Conference, State University of New York at Albany.

1989 Invited participant, "Decoding Olmec iconography". Northeast Mesoamericanists Conference, Boston University.

1987 Invited participant, "Ceremonial roles and status in Middle Formative Mesoamerica: The implications of burials from La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico". At the III Texas Symposium on Mesoamerican Archaeology: Olmec, Izapa, Maya. Program in Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin.

Service as discussant or respondent

2003 Discussant for "Envisioning and Embodying the Past: Hypermedia Explorations of Archaeology" (Jeanne Lopiparo, organizer). World Archaeological Congress, Washington, DC.

2003 Comentarista invitada, Presentacíon del libro Ancient Maya Gender Identity and Relations por Lowell Gustafson y Amelia Trevelyan. III Mesa de Estudios de Género, Primera Reunión Internacional, "La condición de las mujeres y las relaciones de género en Mesoamérica prehispánica". Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia , Dirección de Etnología y Antropología Social. Mexico, DF.

2002 Discussant for the symposium "The experience of childhood in ancient Mesoamerica" (Traci Ardren, organizer). Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.

2002 Discussant for the SAA - Student Affairs Committee sponsored session "Ritual, Religion and Symbolic Behavior in the Archaeological Record" (Gordon Rakita and Michelle Woodward, organizers). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver.

2002 Discussant, "Interfacing Knowledge: New Paradigms in Computing for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences". Digital Cultures Project, University of California, Santa Barbara.

2001 Discussant for the session "Structured Deposits in Mesoamerican societies: perspectives on ritual practice, economy, and social organization." (Yasha Rodriguez, organizer). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

2000 Discussant for the session "Other ways and Others' ways of Presenting Archaeology and Ethnography: Nourishing the Spirit and Quickening the Mind" (Meredith Chesson and Susan Kus, organizers). 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.

2000 Discussant for the session "Developing Archaeological Approaches to Labor for the New Millenium." (Stephen Silliman, organizer). Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.

1999 Discussant for the session "Gender and Costume in Mesoamerica." (Matthew Looper, organizer). American Anthropological Association, Chicago.

1998 Discussant for the session "There’s No Place Like Home: Considering the Place of Household Archaeology in Theory Today." (Cynthia Van Gilder, organizer). Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.

1995 Respondent to Nicholas David, "Tribes, Chiefdoms and Circumscription: An Ethnoarchaeological Test Case from Central Africa", in the invited session "Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces". Complex Societies Group 2nd Biennial Conference: Archaeology of Complex Societies. California State University, San Bernardino.

1995 Respondent, Plenary Session on precolumbian Americas, "The Visual Arts and Religious Communities" conference. Center for the Arts, Religion, and Education, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.

1994 Discussant for the session "The Decorated Body" (Michelle Marcus, organizer). College Art Association. New York.

Papers presented at professional meetings

2003 "Confessions of an archaeological tour guide". A paper presented in the session "Ethical Interactions: National Modernities, Tourism and the Archaeological Imaginary" (Lynn M. Meskell, organizer). World Archaeological Congress, Washington, DC.

2003 "Walter W. Taylor and the Study of Maya Iconography". A paper presented in the Forum "Walter W. Taylor: A critical appreciation" (Alan Macca, organizer). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI.

2002 (John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce) "Brewing Distinction: The development of cacao beverages in Formative Mesoamerica". Presented in the symposium "The Role of Cacao in Mesoamerican Communities" (Cameron McNeil, organizer). Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.

2002 (Rosemary A. Joyce and John S. Henderson) "Before there was a periphery: Early Formative Honduran archaeology". Presented in the symposium "Regional Precocity in Formative Period Mesoamerica" (F. Kent Reilly and David C. Grove, organizers). Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.

2002 "Unintended Consequences? Monumentality as a Novel Experience in Formative America". A paper presented in the session "Reconstructing A Sense of Place: Method and Theory in Archaeology" (Brenda Bowser, organizer). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver.

2002 (Rosemary A. Joyce and John S. Henderson) "Who do we work for now? Imperialism, nationalism, globalism: Archaeology in Honduras, 1839-2002". A paper presented in the 2002 Willey Symposium, "Critical Perspectives on Archaeologists Working Abroad" (Michael Chazan and Nathan Schlanger, organizers). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver.

2001 "The Materialization of House Continuity". Presented in the symposium "Modeling Classic Maya Social Organization: Approaches, Data, and Implications" (Jon Hageman, organizer). Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.

2001 "Personhood, Agency, and Individuality: The Case of Classic Maya Names". Paper presented in the session "Agency Beyond the Individual." (Randy McGuire and Julian Thomas, organizers). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

2001 (John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce) "What does it mean to interact? An agent-centered perspective on the Mesoamerican Formative". Paper presented in the session "Bridging Formative Mesoamerican Cultures." (Terry Powis and David McDow, organizers). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

2001 (Kira Blaisdell-Sloan, John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce) "Living through Spanish colonization in northern Honduras". Paper presented in the session "The Late Postclassic to Spanish-era Transition inMesoamerica: Archaeological Perspectives." (Rani Alexander and Susan Kepecs, organizers). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

2001 (Jeanne Lopiparo and Rosemary A. Joyce) "Exploring Archaeological Knowledge Graphically In A Hypertext Environment". Paper presented in the session "Ancient Muses: Archaeology and the Arts." (John Jameson, Christine Finn, and John Ehrenhard, organizers). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

2001 ( Julia A. Hendon and Rosemary A. Joyce) "A Flexible Corporation: Classic Period House Societies in Eastern Mesoamerica". Paper presented in the session "Corporate Groups in Prehispanic Mesoamerica." (Jon Lohse, organizer). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

2001 (Holly Bachand, Rosemary A. Joyce and Julia A. Hendon) "Bodies Moving in Space: Ancient Mesoamerican Human Sculpture and Embodiment". Paper presented in the session "(Ad) dressing Identity:The manipulation and representation of the body in constructions of identity." (Diana Loren and Genevieve Fisher, organizers). Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

2001 "Making Collaborative Meaning in Archaeology: Archaeologists, The Internet, and Our Publics". Paper presented in the session "Beyond the Bells and Whistles: A Critical Look at Content and Meaning in Archaeological Web Sites." (Carol McDavid, organizer). Annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Long Beach.

2000 "Materiality and Persuasiveness in Prehispanic Central America". Presented in the symposium "Performing and Transforming Gendered Pasts: Archaeology and the Work of Judith Butler" (Elizabeth Perry and Rob Schmidt, organizers). 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.

2000 "Making Sex Matter: How Archaeology Contributes to Contemporary Gender Studies". Paper presented in the session "Embodying the Millenium: Beyond Sex and Gender in Archaeology" (Rosemary A. Joyce and Lynn M. Meskell, organizers). Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.

2000 (John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce) "Space and Society in the Lower Ulúa Valley, Honduras". Paper presented in the session "Beyond the Maya Zone: Papers in Honduran Archaeology in Honor of George Hasemann" (Boyd Dixon and Ron Webb, organizers). Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.

2000 (Jeanne Lopiparo, Rosemary A. Joyce and Julia A. Hendon) "Terminal Classic Pottery Production in the Ulúa Valley, Honduras". Paper presented in the session "Terminal Classic Socioeconomic Processes in the Maya Lowlands Through a Ceramic Lens" (Sandra Lopez Varela and Antonia Foias, organizers). Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.

1999 "Desiring Women: Classic Maya Sexualities". Presented in the session "Sexuality at the Millenium: Constructing an Anthropology of Sexuality Across the Discipline" (Jessica Weinberg and Elizabeth Perry, organizers). American Anthropological Association, Chicago.

1999 (John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce) "Puerto Escondido: Exploraciones Preliminares en el Formativo Temprano". Presented at the VII Seminario de Antropología de Honduras: "Dr. George Hasemann", Tegucigalpa. Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia.

1999 (Rosemary Joyce, M. Steven Shackley, Kenneth McCandless and Rus Sheptak) "Resultados preliminares de una investigación con EDXRF de obsidiana de Puerto Escondido". Presented at the VII Seminario de Antropología de Honduras: "Dr. George Hasemann", Tegucigalpa. Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia.

1999 "Las figurillas preclasicas del valle inferior del Río Ulúa". Presented at the VII Seminario de Antropología de Honduras: "Dr. George Hasemann", Tegucigalpa. Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia.

1999 "Multivocality and Authority: Implications from a Hypertext Writing Project." In the session " Thinking Beyond the Boundaries: Alternative, Critical, and Multivocal Perspectives on the Presentation of the Past." (Kevin Bartoy, organizer). Society for American Archaeology, Chicago.

1998 "A Precolumbian Gaze: Male Sexuality Among the Ancient Maya." Paper presented in the session "Archaeologies of Sexuality." (Barbara Voss and Robert Schmidt, organizers). Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.

1997 "Burying the Dead at Tlatilco: Social memory and social identities." In the session "New Perspectives on Mortuary Ritual." (Meredith Chesson and Ian Kuijt, organizers). American Anthropological Association, Washington.

1997 "Heterarchy, History, and Material Reality: 'Communities' in Late Classic Honduras." In the session "Archaeology ofCommunities in the Americas" (Marcello-Andrea Canuto and Jason Yaeger, organizers). Society for American Archaeology, Nashville.

1996 "Considering House Societies: An Introduction". In the Archaeology Division Invited Session "Opening Up the House: A Dialogue Across the Discipline" (Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie, organizers). American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.

1996 "Meals that Matter: What Decorated Pots are Doing in Formative Period Contexts". In the session "Eating Up Old Paradigms: A Discussion of Archaeological Food Systems" (Sissel Johannessen and Christine Hastorf, organizers). Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1996 (John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce) "Before Playa de los Muertos: An early Formative Component in the Lower Ulua River Valley". Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1995 "Beauty, Sexuality and Body Ornamentation in Mesoamerican Art". In the session "Embodying Gender" (Michelle Marcus, organizer). Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego.

1995 "Making Men and Women of Children: The Construction of Gender in Mesoamerican Society". In the session "Common Themes, Different Expressions: Ancient Egypt and the Americas" (Judy Lustig, organizer). American Anthropological Association, Washington.

1994 "The Women of Tlatilco", presented at the conference "Gender in Ancient America". Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.

1994 "Performing Gender in prehispanic Central America", presented at the conference "Gender and Material Culture". University of Exeter, England.

1994 "High Culture, Mesoamerican Civilization, and the Classic Maya Tradition" In the session "Order, Legitimacy and Wealth in Early States" (Norman Yoffee and John Baines, organizers). American Anthropological Association, Atlanta.

1994 (Robert Preucel and Rosemary Joyce) "Metaphors of Fieldwork: Feminism and the Practice of Archaeology" In the session "Gender as if it Mattered" (Meg Conkey and Ruth Tringham, organizers). American Anthropological Association, Atlanta.

1994 "Looking for children in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica". In the session "The Archaeology of Childhood" (Elizabeth Chilton and Martin Wobst, organizers). Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim CA.

1993 "Work, Ritual, Politics and Status: the Changing Position of Women in Prehispanic Maya States". In the session "Women and the State" (Rita Wright, organizer). American Anthropological Association, Washington.

1993 (Julia A. Hendon and Rosemary Joyce) "Questioning 'complexity' and 'periphery': Archaeology in Yoro, Honduras. Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis.

1992 "The social construction of power in Formative Period Honduras". In the session "Ideology, Power and Material Culture in Preclassic Mesoamerica" (Michael Love and Michael Blake, organizers). American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.

1992 (John Isaacson, Rosemary Joyce, and Veronica Kann) "Where's the Model? D. W. Lathrap's Emphasis on Model Building and Validation in Lowland South American Archaeology". In the session "Model Building and Validation in New World Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Donald W. Lathrap" (John Isaacson and Veronica Kann, organizers). American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.

1992 Dorothy Hughes Popenoe: Eve in an archaeological garden (A hypertext biography). Presented at the second Conference on Women in Archaeology. Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.

1992 "Arqueología en el Departamento de Yoro: Resultados preliminares del Proyecto Arqueológico Cataguana e Oloman". Presented at the VI Seminario, Zamorano, Honduras. Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia.

1991 "Discourse and History in Comparative Perspective". In the session "Approaches to the Interpretation of Classic Maya Texts" (Kathryn Josserand and Nicholas Hopkins, organizers). American Anthropological Association, Chicago.

1991 "Classic Maya images of gender and labor". Presented at the Conference on Women in Archaeology, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.

1991 "Innovation, Communication and the Archaeological Record: A Reassessment of Middle Formative Honduras". Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1990 "The Construction of Gender in Classic Maya Sculpture". In the session "The Engendered Subject: Practice and Representation in Mesoamerica" (Veronica Kann and Geoffrey McCafferty, organizers). American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.

1990 "Ideology in action: Classic Maya ritual practice". Paper presented at the 23rd annual Chac Mool Conference, "The Archaeology of Ideology", Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

1990 (John G. Fox and Rosemary Joyce) "Ethnicity in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Reflections from Southeastern Mesoamerica". In the session "Ethnicity and Archaeology" (Lane Beck and Michael N. Geselowitz, organizers). American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.

1989 (R. Joyce, R. Sheptak, J. Hendon, C. Fung and J. Gerry) "Settlement patterns in Yoro, Honduras". In the session "Maya Settlement Patterns and Spatial Analysis". American Anthropological Association, Washington DC.

1989 (R. Joyce, R. Sheptak, J. Hendon, C. Fung and J. Gerry) "Patrón del asentamiento en el Departamento de Yoro, Honduras". Presented at the V Seminario de Arqueologia Hondureña, Copan, Honduras. Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia.

1988 "Studying activity within the site: A reconsideration of the data from Cerro Palenque". In the session "Reconstructing Behavior and Social Organization: New Interpretations from Southeastern Mesoamerica" (Rosemary Joyce and Julia Hendon, organizers). Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix.

1987 "A Protoclassic ceramic complex from the Lower Ulua Valley, Honduras". Brief Research Report. American Anthropological Association, Chicago.

1987 "Patron de asentamiento en el Valle del Ulua". Presented at the IV Seminario de Arqueologia Hondureña, La Ceiba, Honduras. Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia.

1986 (with R. Edging, K. Lorenz and S. Gillespie) "Olmec Bloodletting: An Iconographic Study". Presented at the VI Palenque Mesa Redonda, Palenque, Mexico.

1986 "Classic to Postclassic: the Terminal Classic transformation of Lowland Maya Political Ideology". In the session "Mesoamerican Political Ideology" (Rosemary Joyce and Susan Gillespie, organizers). Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1985 "Ceramic differentiation and class". Presented in the session "Interaction on the Southern Mesoamerican Periphery" (Eugenia Robinson, organizer) American Anthropological Association Washington, DC.

1985 "Terminal Classic ceramics of Cerro Palenque, Honduras". Presented at the "Conference on Maya Ceramics" (Prudence Rice and Robert Sharer, organizers), Washington DC.

1984 (R. Joyce and R. Sheptak) "New evidence for the Late Classic to Early Postclassic transition in Honduras". Midwest Mesoamericanists Conference, Loyola University of Chicago.

1983 "Excavations at Cerro Palenque, Honduras: A Terminal Classic (Fine Paste) site of the Ulua Valley". Brief Research Report. American Anthropological Association, Chicago.

1983 "Resultados preliminares de investigaciones en Cerro Palenque". Presented at the Segundo seminario sobre la arqueología hondureña, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia.

1982 "La zona arqueologica de Cerro Palenque". Presented at the Primer seminario sobre la arqueología hondureña, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia.

1980 "Crossed bands in Olmec, Maya and Izapa art". Midwest Mesoamericanists Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Public lectures and departmental colloquia

"Objectifying difference: Archaeology and identities in contemporary Honduras". Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, University of California, San Diego, October 2002.

Minnesota Maya Society: "Men and Women in Prehispanic Maya States". Minneapolis, MN, April 2002.

Hillstrom Museum of Art and Women's Studies Program, Gustavus Adolphus College: "Making Something of Herself: Playa de los Muertos Figurines". Saint Peter, MN, April 2002.

Columbia University: Archaeology colloquium, "Notes on an Earspool", December 2001.

UCLA Cotsen Institute Maya Weekend The Mesoamerican Ballgame: "Ballcourts on a Social Landscape: Making Place and Marking Time in Yoro, Honduras", October 2001.

XEROX PARC Forum. "Maya Lords and Barbarian Princes". Palo Alto, CA, May 2001.

Santa Cruz Archaeological Society. "Beginnings of Village Life in Eastern Mesoamerica: Archaeology of Puerto Escondido, Honduras (1600-700 BC)", May 2001.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Anthropology Department colloquium, "Notes on an Earspool", April 2001.

Archaeological Institute of America, Nadzia Borowski Lecturer (2001), Doris Zemurray Stone Lecturer (1997), Travelling lecturer (1995, 1999, 2001), Boston Chapter lecture series (1992): "The Changing Position of Women in Prehistoric Maya States", "Men and Women in Early Mesoamerica", "Before Playa de los Muertos: The Ulua River Valley and Early Formative Mesoamerica", "Burying the Dead at Tlatilco", "Digging Honduras’ Earliest Village site", "The Changing Position of Women in Prehistoric Maya States", "Maya Lords and Barbarian Princes"

Stanford University: Center for Archaeology, Archaeological Workshop, "Revisiting the 'Pretty Ladies': Embodiment and desire in Formative Mesoamerica", February, 2003; Social Anthropology colloquium, "Performance and Inscription: Materiality, Embodiment, and Gender in Precolumbian Central America", February 2000; Stanford Archaeology Association, "Archaeology in Museums: Reflections on the past and future”, February 1997; Committee for Art at Stanford, Art of the Americas Study Group, "Mesoamerican Images of Gender", October 1995.

Anthropology Department colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz: "Excavating an Early Formative village in Honduras", December 1997.

Friends of Ethnic Arts and the DeYoung Museum of Fine Arts: "Making Bodies: Insights on Old and New World Figurines”, May 1997.

University of Oregon Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series, Culture/Power/History: “Perforning the Body: Gender, Costume, and Subjectivity in Prehispanic Central America”, February 1997.

UCLA Institute of Archaeology and Los Angeles Museum of Art Maya Weekend The Maya Universe: Imagery and Interpretation: "Maya Lords and Barbarian Princes: Painted Ceramics from the Maya Frontier", October 1994.

Lowell Lecture Series, Boston Museum of Fine Arts: "Women as Subjects and Users of Classic Maya Pottery", May 1994; "Wealth and Knowledge in Precolumbian Central and South America”, May 1989.

Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College: "Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica", May 1993.

Metropolitan Museum of Art and Archaeological Institute of America: New York City Chapter: "Work and society among the Classic Maya", May 1-2, 1993

Latin American Center, UCLA, April 1993 and Smith College Columbian Quincentennial colloquium series "Worlds in Collision", November 1992: "Images of Gender in Classic Maya Society".

Peabody Museum, Harvard University: "Uses of history: Mesoamerican examples", December 1992; "The roles of men and women in pre- and post-hispanic Mesoamerica", November 1992; "Mesoamerica's Roots: The Olmec, Maya and Aztec", December 1988.

Trent University, Department of Anthropology, Peterborough, Ontario: "Beyond the Maya Frontier: Archaeology of Yoro, Honduras”, February 1992.

New York University, Anthropology Colloquium: "Labor, class and gender images in Classic Maya society", November 1991.

Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Sandwich, Massachusetts: "World, Otherworld and Center", May 1991.

Fitchburg Art Museum: "Archaeology Beyond the Maya Frontier", October 1990.

Museum experience

DeYoung Museum, San Francisco Museums of Fine Art Docent Council training lectures (1995-2003)

Visiting Committee, Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1997-2000).

Consultant on Central American archaeological collections, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University (fall 1998).

External Review of curation and collecting, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (fall 1997).

Co-curator, archaeological galleries of the Museum of San Pedro Sula, Honduras (opened January 1995)

Public programs in conjunction with "Painting the Maya Universe", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (spring 1994).

Consultant on Precolumbian collections (1990-1994), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College

Guest curator for exhibit "Embodying Personhood in Prehispanic Costa Rica", Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College (October-December 1993).

Curator, "Encounters with the Americas", reinstallation of the Latin American gallery at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University (opened December 1992).

Curator, "Art, Architecture and Power in Mesoamerica", an exhibit at the Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts (1991).

Contributor, "Latin American Art", for exhibit and catalogue of The Fredric Wertham Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge (May-July 1990).

New England Museums Association meetings: panelist, session on curation in university museums (1986); panelist, session on writing grant proposals for the NEH (1987).

Courses taught

University of California, Berkeley (including Summer Session)

• Freshman seminar: Museum Exhibition: Theory and Practice
• Freshman seminar: Native Aztec and Maya Literature of the Sixteen Century
• Sophomore seminar: Objects of Knowledge: How universities came to be what they are today
• Introduction to Archaeology
• Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics
• Archaeology of Central America
• The Ancient Maya
• Field Course in Archaeological Method
• Museum Exhibition Curation and Design
• Multimedia Authoring: Mesoamerican Archaeology
• Poetics of Time and Place in the Past (co-taught)
• Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics
• Graduate Seminar: Maya Text and Image
• Graduate Seminar: Archaeologies of Mesoamerican Knowledge
• Graduate Seminar: Household Archaeology
• Graduate Seminar: Poetics of Place in the Past (co-taught)
• Graduate Seminar: Museum Methods (co-taught)
• Graduate Seminar: Archaeological Method and Theory (co-taught)

Harvard University (including extension)

• Mesoamerica: Central American Civilization
• Beyond the Maya Frontier: Archaeology of Honduras and El Salvador
• Exploring Culture in a Hypermedia Environment (co-taught)
• Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics
• Art and Society in Precolumbian Mesoamerica
• Graduate Seminar: Issues in Central American Art and Archaeology
• Graduate Seminar: Maya Text and Image
• Graduate Seminar: From Spoken Word to Text (co-taught)
• Graduate Seminar: Research Design in Archaeology

Harvard University, through MIT Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology:

• Graduate Seminar: Materials Analysis: Ceramics (co-taught)

Harvard University Museum Studies MA Certificate Program (extension division)

• Issues in Museum Administration (co-taught and guest speaker: ethical issues)
• Introduction to Museum Studies (guest speaker: anthropology museums)
• Curation (guest speaker: systematic collections)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Introduction to Anthropology
• Peoples and Cultures of Contemporary Mexico and Guatemala

Jackson Community College

• Introduction to Anthropology
• Maya Archaeology

Teaching development

2003-2004: Advisory Committee, Graduate Student Instructor Teaching and Resource Center, University of California, Berkeley.

2003-2004: Chair, social sciences subcommittee, Committee on Courses of Instruction, Academic Senate, University of California, Berkeley

2002: Presentation for "Teaching with GSIs in Large-Enrollment Courses". GSI Teaching and Resource Center, University of California, Berkeley.

1995: University of California conference on the teaching of introductory archaeology (exploring the use of computers in the curriculum), University of California, Santa Barbara

1989-1994: Participant in Harvard University Extension Division Intensive Writing Program

1990-1993: Educational Advisory Committee for the Perseus project, Department of Classics, Harvard University

1992-1993: Developed computerized models of La Venta and Copan archaeological sites for use in "Mesoamerican civilization". Funded by the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education, Harvard University.

1990-1992: Offered session "Strategies for Engaging Students", orientation sessions for teaching fellows in anthropology; and panel discussion "Teaching in the Core Program". Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

1991: Participated in Discussion Leading Seminar, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

1990-1991: Training sessions for Teaching Fellows in Anthropology, Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Professional service

Editorial Board, Journal of Social Archaeology (1999-present)

Advisory Board, Global Heritage Fund (2001- present)

Review panel, the Wenner Gren Foundation (June 2001-May 2003)

Editorial Board, Journal of Latin American Anthropology (2000-2003)

Participant, expert consultation concerning the conservation of the Hieroglyphic Stairway, Copan Archaeological Park and World Heritage Site. UNESCO and Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (July 1997, September 2001).

Review panel, Archaeology and Geography, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF, fall 2000.

Program Editor, Archaeology Division, American Anthropological Association (1999-2000).

Member, Distinguished Service Award Committee, Society for American Archaeology (1998-2001).

Chair, A. V. Kidder award committee, Archaeology Division, American Anthropological Association (1998).

Review panel for NSF Archaeology program, spring 1994, and Systematic Collections in Anthropology, spring 1998.

Review panel for Social Sciences for NEH Dissertation Grants, 1995.

Review panel for NEH Media Program, 1994.

Review panel for NEH Travel to Collections Program, 1985, 1988, 1991.