In 2025, I used the Stahl Award to conduct laboratory analysis of sediment core samples collected from the San Juan Luvina peatland. The funds supported the purchase of materials necessary for pollen analysis and the identification of macro- and micro-botanical remains. I directed this laboratory work during Summer and Fall 2025.
With Stahl funding, Rosemary Joyce, Esther Parpal Cabanes, and Jeanne Lopiparo initiated research on curated ceramic figurines from Classic Maya Tonina in June-July 2025. This involved assembling a corpus estimated at 800 figurines; organizing the corpus in categories based on imagery; creation of a relational database to capture information about production, imagery, and possible secondary function (e.g. as musical instruments); and entry into the database of records for 20% of the collection, including all images identified as featuring female characters.
In 2019, Stahl Foundation funding supported my dissertation fieldwork in southwestern Queretaro, Mexico. In Queretaro, research efforts largely focused on amassing a body of research materials associated with land reform. In particular, Stahl Foundation funding supported trips to manuscript depositories which resulted in the recovery of a significant amount of digital surrogates of archival material from local and state depositories.
With Stahl funding, multi-sited collaborative research in the greater Palenque region in Chiapas, Mexico, continued. This grant supported the first season of excavations in a ritual structure at Palenque by Lisa Johnson.
On Thursday Oct 26th 2017 at 5pm we hosted Professor Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria from UT Austin. He presented Indigenous Engineering and Aesthetics in Colonial Mexico City. A reception will follow.
