Marc Zender
Assistant Professor - Anthropology
School of Liberal Arts
https://tulane.academia.edu/MarcZender
Google Scholar URL
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8TH6ElEAAAAJ&hl=en
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
- Mesoamerica
Additional Info
Recently-Taught Latin America-Related Courses:
- ANTH-3310-01: Historical Linguistics
- ANTH-6090-01: Spoken Ch’orti’
- ANTH-6700: Spoken Nahuatl
- ANTH-6810-01: Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs
Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years:
7
Research
Mesoamerican Indigenous Languages and Writing Systems, Epigraphy, Anthropological & Historical Linguistics, Comparative Writing Systems and Decipherment, Iconography & Visual Culture, Religion, Identity, Mesoamerica, Archaeology
Degrees
- B.A., University of British Columbia, Anthropology, 1997
- M.A., University of Calgary, Archaeology, 1999
- Ph.D., University of Calgary, Archaeology, 2004
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Associate Professor, 2019-
- Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2011-2019
- Lecturer, Harvard University, 2005-2011
- Instructor, University of Calgary, 2002-2003
- Teaching Fellow, University of Calgary, 1999-2003
Distinctions
- Peabody Museum Research Grant, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 2010-2011
- Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction, Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund, 2002
Languages
- Spanish
- German
- Ch’olan
- Yukatekan
- Tzeltalan
- Nahuatl
Overseas Experience
- Germany
- Spain
- Netherlands
- Sweden
- Poland
- Denmark
- Finland
Selected Publications
- 2017. “Theory and Method in Maya Decipherment.” PARI Journal 18(2):1-48.
- 2013. “Reading in Context: The Interpretations of Personal Reference in Ancient Maya Hieroglyphic Texts.‘ With D. Law, S. Houston, N. Carter, and D. Stuart. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 23(2): E23-E47.
- 2011. Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Scultpure (w/ Andrea Stone). Thames & Hudson, London.
- 2008. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Nahuatl Decipherment. PARI Journal 8(4): 24-37. www.mesoweb.com/pari/journal/archive/PARI0804.pdf
- 2006. Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology (w/ E. Robertson, J. Seibert and D. Fernandez). Second edition. University of New Mexico Press.