Christine Hernández

Curator of Special Collections - The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center

Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
Latin American Library
People Classification
Faculty
Librarians
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Christine Hernández

Research

Anthropology, Maya, Mesoamerican Codices, Archaeology; Mexico

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Tulane University, Anthropology, 2000
  • M.A., Tulane University, Anthropology, 1991
  • B.A., University of Illinois, Anthropology and Spanish, 1988

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Anthropology Lecturer and Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University, 2006 – 2011
  • Research Associate, the Middle American Research Institute, 2001-
  • Research Associate, Maya Madrid Codex Project, 2001-2003

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Spain
  • France
  • Mexico

Related Experience

  • Grant writer and Event coordinator, Middle American Research institute, 2010-2011
  • Co-curator with David Dressing and Gabrielle Vail, “Maya Time Reckoning and the Language of Creation: Views the Merle Greene Robertson Collection,” 2009; “Sacred Cenotes, Hidden Caverns: Years of Research in the Maya Area,” 2008
  • Organizing committee member, Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshops, 2004-2009, 2012
  • Co-­Principal investigator, Mesoamerioan Codices Database Project, 2004-2008
  • Production editor, Human Mosaic, 36(1), Special Issue, “The Bricker Almanac” 2005-2006
  • Co-director with Gabrielle Vail, The Mesoamerican Codices Database Project , 2001-

Selected Publications

  • 2023. (with Dan M. Healan) Ceramic Sequence, Chronology, and Cultural Dynamics of the Ucareo-Zinapécuaro, Michoacán Obsidian Source Area. Ancient Mesoamerica 34:47-67.
  • 2021.    “Digital Resources: Tulane University’s Collection of Cuban-American Radionovelas, 1963–1970.”  In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Oxford University Press, 2014—. Article published February 23, 2021.
  • 2019. (with Dan M. Healan) Migration and the Coyotlatelco Ceramic Tradition: Evidence from the El Bajío. In Migrations in Late Mesoamerica, edited by Christopher S. Beekman, pp. 88-108. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
  • 2013. (with Gabrielle Vail) Re-Creating Primordial Time: Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.
  • 2012. (with Gabrielle Vail) Chapter 12: “Rain and Fertility Rituals in Postclassic Yucatan Featuring Chaak and Chak Chel.” In The Ancient Maya of Mexico: Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands, edited by Geoffrey Braswell. Equinox Publishin
  • 2011. (with Gabrielle Vail) The Construction of Memory: The Use of Late Classic Divinatory Texts in the Late Postclassic Maya Codices. Ancient Mesoamerica 22(2):449-462.
  • 2010. (with Gabrielle Vail) Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C.