Degrees

• A.B., Harvard College, Anthropology, 1964
• Ph.D., Tulane University, Anthropology, 1971

Academic Experience

• Professor Emeritus, Tulane University, 2009-
• Professor, Tulane University, 1980-2009
• Director, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1975-2009
• Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1975-1980
• Director, Program of Research on the Yucatán Peninsula, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1972-1974

Distinctions

• Booth-Bricker Fund grant, Middle American Research Institute, 2003-2007
• Tulane University Presidential Recognition Award, Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Dissertation Director Award, 2002
• National Geographic Society Grants, 1992, 1975-1978
• National Science Foundation Grant, 1979
• National Endowment for the Arts Catalogue Program Grant, 1978

Languages

• Spanish
• German

Related Experience

• Director, Tulane Middle American Research Institute, Copan Group 10L-2 Project, 1990-1994
• Director, Excavations, Settlement Pattern Studies, and Ceramic Analysis, Komchén, Yucatán, Mexico, 1980-1993
• Director, Middle American Research Institute, Program of Research on the Yucatán Peninsula, 1972-1975
• Director of Excavations, Quelepa, Department of San Miguel, El Salvador, 1967-1969
• Archaeologist, Museum of Northern Arizona-Flagstaff, Canyon Diablo, Arizona, 1965

Selected Publications

• 2015. “The Earliest Ceramics of the Northern Maya Lowlands.” With George J. Bey and Christopher Gunn. In Pathways to Complexity: A View from the Maya Lowlands, edited by Kathryn Brown and G. J. Bey. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
• 2014. El Colapso de los Mayas del Periodo Clásico en las Tierras Bajas del Norte. Historia General de Yucatán, edited by Sergio Quesada, Jorge I. Castillo Canché, and Inés Ortiz Yam, Vol. 1, Época Prehispánica. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Yucatán, M
• 2005. Copán: The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom. Editor, with William L. Fash. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press
• 2005. “A Late Classic Royal Residence at Copan.” With Cassandra R. Ball. In Copan: The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom. E. Wyllys Andrews and W.L. Fash, eds. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. 239-314.
• 2003. “The Northern Maya Collapse and its Aftermath.” With Anthony P. Andrews and Fernando Robles Castellanos. Ancient Mesoamerica. 14: 151-156.
• 1980. Excavations at Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico. MARI, Publication 48. New Orleans: Tulane University.
• 1976. The Archaeology of Quelepa, El Salvador. MARI, Publication 42. New Orleans: Tulane University.