Tatsuya Murakami
Assistant Professor - Anthropology
On Leave Fall 2022
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
- Mesoamerica
Additional Info
Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:
Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years:
1
Research
Mesoamerica, Central Mexican Highlands, Urbanism, Early Complex Societies, Archaeometry, Material Culture, Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
Degrees
- B.A., Kanagawa University, Spanish, 1996
- M.A., University of Tokyo, Cultural Anthropology, 1998
- Ph.D., Arizona State University, Anthropology, 2010
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2013-
- Visiting Instructor, University of South Florida, 2012-2013
- Instructional Postdoctoral Scholar, University of South Florida, 2010-2012
Distinctions
- National Science Foundation Research Grant, 2015-2019
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-Ph.D. Grant, 2014-2015
- COR Research Fellowship and Stone Center Summer Faculty Research Grant for the project “Pathways to Urbanism in Formative Central Mexico: Tlalancaleca Mapping Project,” Tulane University, 2014
- Research Grant for field project “Early State Formation in Central Mexico: Archaeological Research at Tlalancaleca,” Matsushita International Foundation, 2011
- Dean’s Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Arizona State University, 2009
- Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2008
- Research Grant for dissertation project, Graduate and Professional Student Association, Arizona State University, 2006
Languages
- Japanese
- Spanish
Overseas Experience
- Japan
- Mexico
- Peru
Selected Publications
- 2016. “Materiality, Regimes of Value, and the Politics of Craft Production, Exchange, and Consumption: A Case of Lime Plaster at Teotihuacan.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 42: 56-78.
- 2015. “Replicative Construction Experiments at Teotihuacan, Mexico: Assessing the Duration and Timing of Monumental Construction.” Journal of Field Archaeology. 40(3): 263-282.
- 2014. “Social Identities, Power Relations, and Urban Transformations: Politics of Plaza Construction at Teotihuacan.” In Mesoamerican Plazas: Arenas of Community and Power, edited by Kenichiro Tsukamoto and Takeshi Inomata, pp. 34-49. Tucson: University o
- 2013. “Characterization of Lime Carbonates in Plasters from Teotihuacan, Mexico: Preliminary Results of Cathodoluminescence and Carbon Isotope Analyses” With Gregory Hodgins and Arleyn W. Simon. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(2): 960-970.
- 2007. “Teotihuacan Society and the Use of Environment: Urban Landscape, Power, and State Formation.” In Asakura World Geography Vol. 14: Latin America, edited by M. Sakai, M. Suzuki, and E. Matsumoto, pp. 51-62. Tokyo: Asakura Shoten.