Victoria Bricker

Professor Emerita - Anthropology

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Emeritus Faculty
Region
  • Central America

Research

Mexico; Anthropology; Mesoamerican Ethnohistory and Linguistics; Epigraphy; Ethnography

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Harvard University, Anthropology, 1968
  • M.A., Harvard University, Anthropology, 1963
  • B.A., Stanford University, Philosophy and Humanities, 1962

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor, Tulane University, 1978-2005
  • Chair, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 1988-1991, 2003-2005
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1973-1978
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1970-1973

Distinctions

  • Elected to membership in American Philosophical Society, 2002
  • Elected to membership in the National Academy of Science, 1991
  • Editorial Board, Middle American Research Institute, 1981-2005
  • Executive Board, American Anthropological Association, 1980-1983

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Maya-Tzotzil
  • Maya-Yucatec

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico
  • Belize
  • Guatemala

Related Experience

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Mayan Linguistics, 1978-
  • Series Editor, Supplement to Handbook of Middle American Indians, 1977-2007
  • Editor, American Ethnologist, 1973-1976

Selected Publications

  • 2023. Migration and Creation in Aztec and Maya Literature. Peter Lang Publishing.
  • 2020. “A Comparison of Historical Evidence for Droughts in the Pre-Columbian Maya Codices with Climatological Evidence for Droughts during the Early and Late Classic Periods.” With Harvey M. Bricker. Ethnohistory, 67(1), 97–126.
  • 2020. “Lunar Calendars of the Pre-columbian Maya.” With Harvey M. Bricker. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 109(1), iii–233.
  • 2019. “A Historical Grammar of the Maya Language of Yucatan: 1557-2000.” University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City. (in press)
  • 2017. “Calendar Wheels of Colonial Mexico” With Anthony F. Aveni. Del Saber Ha Hecho Su Razon de Ser Homenaje a Alfredo Lopez Austin. 2:11-25. Editors, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Angela Ochoa. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Coordinacion de Huma