Tatsuya Murakami

Professor - Anthropology

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
  • Mesoamerica
Tatsuya Murakami

Courses

Introduction to Archaeology, Material Culture, Archaeology of Economy and Society, Ancient Urbanism, Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in Past 5 years: 1 

Research

Mesoamerica, Central Mexican Highlands, Urbanism, Early Complex Societies, Archaeometry, Material Culture, Quantitative Methods in Anthropology

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Arizona State University, Anthropology, 2010
  • M.A., University of Tokyo, Cultural Anthropology, 1998
  • B.A., Kanagawa University, Spanish, 1996

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2019-
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2013-2019
  • Visiting Instructor, University of South Florida, 2012-2013
  • Instructional Postdoctoral Scholar, University of South Florida, 2010-2012

Distinctions

  • Louisiana Board of Regents Departmental Enhancement Grant (with J. Nesbitt, C. Rodning, and M. Canuto), 2020-2022
  • Research Grant for dissertation project, Graduate and Professional Student Association, Arizona State University, 2006
  • 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
  • Board of Regents Support Fund for Louisiana Artists and Scholars, 2019-2020

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Japanese

Overseas Experience

  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • Peru

Related Experience

  • Vice President of Membership, Society for Archaeological Sciences, 2017-
  • Director, Tlalancaleca Archaeological Project funded by Matsushita International Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, summer 2012
  • Director, Project “Power Relations and Urban Landscape Formation: A Study of Construction Labor and Resources at Teotihuacan,” funded by NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2008-2009
  • Reviewer, Lithic Technology (2014), Journal of Archaeological Science (2009), Archaeometry (2010, 2012), Journal of Historical Archaeology (2011), and America Antigua (2010)

Selected Publications

  • 2024. “Beyond Economic Inequality: Unmeasurable Values, Collective Demand, and Community Building in Classic Period Mesoamerica.” In Realizing Value in Mesoamerica: The Dynamics of Desire and Demand in Ancient Economies, pp. 397-424.
  • 2022. “Refining the Middle Formative Chronology in Central Mexico: Implications for the Origins of the Central Mexican Urban Tradition.” In Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages. pp. 224-257. University Press of Florida, Gainesville
  • 2021. Teotihuacan and Early Classic Mesoamerica: Multiscalar Perspectives on Power, Identity, and Interregional Relations, co-edited with Claudia García-Des Lauriers. University Press of Colorado, Louisville.
  • 2021. “Reconfiguring Market Economy: Dimensions of Exchange & Social Relations at Teotihuacan.” In Urban Commerce in Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by E. Paris, special issue, Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Vol. 32: 26-42.
  • 2019. “Labor Mobilization and Cooperation for Urban Construction: Building Apartment Compounds at Teotihuacan.” Latin American Antiquity, 30(4), 741–759.