Marl Graduate Students

Research Interests

Cavazos, Angeliki

• Osteology
• funerary customs
• Email: aggeliki@mail.utexas.edu

Dawson, Maria, M.A.

• Mesoamerica, Maya & Huastec
• Email: pomo(at)mail.utexas.edu

Dodge, Robyn

• Maya Archaeology
• Email: rldodge(at)mail.utexas.edu

Drake, Stacy Marie

Email: stacymdrake(at)gmail.com

Durst, Jeff

• Maya Archaeology
• Email: jeff.durst(at)thc.state.tx.us

Hyde, David, M.A. ABD

• Mesoamerica, Maya
• Socio-economic organization and intergration
• Lithic technological organization
• Email: botfly(at)mail.utexas.edu

Martinez, Maria

Email: mmm(at)mail.utexas.edu

Obledo, Micaela, M.A. ABD

• Mesoamerica, Maya
• interment patterns and variations
• forensic archaeology
• symbolic analysis of iconography
• Email:midnightsun1811(at)hotmail.com

Reed Elizabeth, M.A., ABD

• Mesoamerica, Maya
• Ceramic technology and production
• Email: elizabethinaustin(at)yahoo.com

Riddick, Deanna

• Mesoamerican Archaeology
• The archaeology of social inequality
• Gender and Production of Identities through Material Culture
• Email: deannariddick(at)msn.com

Trein, Deborah

• Performance Studies
• Caribbean Studies
• urban ethnography
• African diasporic dances
• Email: debora.trein(at)gmail.com

Wagner, William J., III, M.A., ABD

• northeastern Mesoamerica
• south Texas
• exchange between hunter-gatherer societies and complex societies
• technology of shell tool and ornament production
• Email: skye(at)mail.utexas.edu

Marl Fellows

Research Interests

Buttles, Palma J., Ph.D.

• Mesoamerica
• social systems
• material culture
• organizational culture
• business anthropology
• settlement patterns, mapping
• Email: pjb(at)sei.cmu.edu

Cortes-Rincon, Marisol, Ph.D.

• Mesoamerica, Maya
• Mesoamerican Warfare
• Development of fortification systems in the Maya Lowlands
• Economic and political patterns
• settlement patterns, mapping
• Email: xorza(at)hotmail.com

Meadows, Richard, Ph.D.

• craft specialization and social complexity
• Mesoamerican culture and ideology
• lithic technology and production
• political economy and material culture
• prehistory of southeastern North America
• Email: rmeadows(at)kawil.net

Trachman, Rissa M., Ph.D.

• Mesoamerica, Maya
• archaeology of gender
• lithic technology
• household archaeology
• Email: rtrachman(at)elon.edu

Walling, Stanley L., Ph.D.

• Mesoamerica, Maya
• socio-political organization
• settlement patterns, mapping
• Email: stan.walling(at)gmail.com

MARL Alumni

Research Interests

Aylesworth, Grant R., Ph.D.

• Mesoamerica, Maya
• archaeoastronomy, E-Groups
• socio-political organization
• settlement patterns, mapping
• Email:grant.aylesworth(at)gmail.com

Thompson, Lauri, Ph.D.

• Mesoamerica, Maya
• bioarchaeology
• human skeletal analysis
• burial customs
• Potbelly Stone Sculpture ( Pacific Slope)
• Email:l.thompson(at)mail.utexas.edu

Scott, Anne M., M.A., Ph.D.

• Mesoamerica, Maya
• Cave archaeology and ethnography
• Sacred landscape and settlement patterns
• Burial Customs
• Email: mayacaver(at)mail.utexas.edu