University of Kansas

Faculty Member, Anthropology

Associate Professor

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

About

As of July 1, I am no longer Director of the Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program at the University of Kansas.  I have now returned to a 100% position in the Department of Anthropology. You can learn more about my program at http://anthropology.ku.edu

Nonetheless, I continue to be affiliated with this interdisciplinary Master's program whose scope encompasses scholarship on indigenous peoples worldwide.

You can learn more about us at http://indigenous.ku.edu

My principal training is in archaeology and my interests include Pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica, the Isthmo-Colombian Area, the Pan-Caribbean Area, northern South America, and the Central Andes.

I have been focusing on native cultures of Costa Rica for most of my career.  I am developing an archaeological field project at Nuevo Corinto, an ancient village in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Costa Rica.

My current research interests include interpretations of Pre-Columbian art and iconography, "shamanism," and popular perceptions of archaeology as manifest in pseudoarchaeology, pseudoscience, and mythology in contemporary culture.

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