Chris Fisher taking notes at Sacapu Angamucu

Christopher T. Fisher, PhD, Archaeologist, Associate Professor, Colorado State University, Director of Legacies of Resilience

Chris Fisher is an associate professor of anthropology at Colorado State University. He received his doctorate and MA degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University. His work appears in edited volumes, including a co-edited book on intensification, Seeking a Richer Harvest: An Introduction to the Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change published by Plenum, The Archaeology of Environmental Change: Socionatural Legacies of Degradation and Resilience, and journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Anthropologist. He has conducted fieldwork in several areas of the United States, Mexico, Portugal, and Albania. His work is supported by the National Science Foundation, Heinz Foundation, and other agencies. In 2007 Fisher received the Gordon R. Willey Award from the American Anthropological Association.

Steve Leisz in Vietnam

Stephen J. Leisz, PhD, Geographer, Assistant Professor, Colorado State University

Steve Leisz is an assistant professor of anthropology and geography at Colorado State University.  He received his doctorate from the University of Copenhagen, his MSc from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.  His work appears in journals such as Regional Environmental Change, Agricultural Systems, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Mountain Research and Development, and Danish Journal of Geography, in addition to book chapters and technical reports.  Steve’s research has focused on the human dimensions of land use / land cover changes in parts of Africa and Southeast Asia and on the use of spatial information tools (GIS, remote sensing, and GPS) to better understand the complexities of these changes.  He has conducted research in northern Vietnam, Laos, the Islands of Flores and Sumba in Indonesia, Madagascar, and Melanesia.

CSU Graduate Student Florencia Pezzutti

Florencia Pezzutti, MA, Doctoral Student, Colorado State University

Florencia Pezzutti is pursuing her interdisciplinary PhD in Ecology with a focus on Archaeology from Colorado State University in the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology. She received her MA from Colorado State University and her BA from Kent State University. She is a native Argentinean and prior to studying in the U.S she attended the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) for two years in the Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. Her interests include: Mesoamerican states and empires, agricultural landscapes, agricultural intensification, maguey cultivation, GIS, and human-environmental interactions. She has been working in Mexico since 2006. Her MA research focused on agricultural terraces in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin.

University of Washington graduate student Anna Cohen

Anna Cohen, MA,  Doctoral Student, University of Washington

Anna Cohen is currently a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She received her MA from the University of Chicago and her BA from McGill University. Her research interests include political authority, consumption, urbanism, and the politics and ethics of archaeology. In addition to her current work in Mexico, Anna has participated on field projects in various parts of the U.S., Albania, France, and India. She has received research funds from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, the Frank Conlon Endowed Fellowship, the University of Chicago, and Rotary International.

Colorado State University Graduate Student Jason Bush

Jason Bush, BA,  Masters Student, Colorado State University

Jason Bush is currently an MA student in Archaeology at Colorado State University and recent cancer survivor.  He received his BA from Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas.  His research interests include long term socio-ecological change, mesoamerican architecture, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and 3D modeling.  Previous to his work in Mexico, Jason has participated on field projects in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas, Colorado, Ecuador, and Bolivia.  For his thesis Jason will develop the first architectural typology in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin.

 

Colorado State University Graduate Student Corrie Ahrens

Corrie Ahrens, BA, Masters Student, Colorado State University

Corrie Ahrens is a Master’s candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Colorado State University. She received her BA from Washington State University where she studied Pacific Northwest archaeology. Corrie has excavated at Fort Vancouver, Washington, and has studied archaeology and history in China and England. For her MA, she is focusing on the spatial layout and function of circular features at the urban site of Sacapu Angamuco. Broader research interests include subsistence practices, storage space and ceremonial activities associated with temezcals (sweat baths).

 

Honorary LORE-LPB Fellows

University of Alabama Graduate Student Francois Dengah

Francois Dengah, MA, Doctoral Student, University of Alabama

Francois Dengah is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. He received his MA and BA from Colorado
State University, where he focused on religion and mental health. Although Francois is a medical anthropologist who focuses on religious movements in Brazil, he is also interested in spatial analysis, social statistics and archaeological survey methodology. He has performed research in Mexico, Albania, France, and various parts of the U.S.

University of Paris Graduate Student Lydie Dussol

Lydie Dussol, BA, Masters Student, University of Paris 1

Lydie Dussol is an MA student at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research examines paleoenvironmental conditions at the Maya site of Rio Bec, Yucatán. Lydie enjoys paleoethnobotany, ethnomedicine and archaeological method and theory, and she has excavated at Constantine (Bouches-du-Rhône, France) for several field seasons.

 

University of Paris Graduate Student Marion Forest

Marion Forest, MA, Doctoral Student, University of Paris 1

Marion Forest is a PhD candidate at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne/French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). For her dissertation, she is examining the relationship between space and society at the urban proto-Tarascan Malpaís Prieto site in Zacapu, Michoacán. Marion is currently Resident Researcher at the Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos (CEMCA) in Mexico City, and is Co-Director of the Uacúsecha Project in Zacapu. In Spring 2011, she was a Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University where she participated in Michael Smith’s project, “Urban Organization through the Ages: Neighborhoods and Open Space.”

 

UW Graduate Student Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius

Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius, MA, Doctoral Student, University of Washington

Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. He received his BA in Archaeology from the Universidad Veracruzana and his MA in Conservation from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. His research interests include community archaeology, heritage and the ethics of archaeological practice. Rodrigo has worked on archaeological projects in the southern U.S., Western Europe and the Mexican states of Jalisco, Yucatan and Veracruz. He is currently an International Fulbright Fellow and holds a CONACYT grant from the Mexican Science and Technology Consejo.

ASU Graduate Student Andrea Torvinen

Andrea Torvinen, MA, Doctoral Student, Arizona State University

Andrea Torvinen is currently a PhD student in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. She received her MA in Anthropology from Arizona State University and BA degrees in Anthropology and Geology from Albion College. Her research interests include Mesoamerican complex societies, ceramic petrography, exchange networks, and GIS. Her dissertation research is focused in the Zacatecas region of Mexico, and she has participated on field projects in Arizona and Illinois.

 

Alejandro Uriarte

Alejandro Uriarte-Torres, MA, El Colegio de Michoacan, A.C.

Es estudiante del programa de maestría en arqueología de El Colegio de Michoacán, A.C. Estudió la Licenciatura en Ciencias Antropológicas en la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (Mérida). Sus áreas de interés son los patrones de asentamiento y la arqueología espacial, SIG, la economía política, los sistemas de organización sociopolítica, los orígenes de la complejidad social en Mesoamérica, la arqueología doméstica y los sistemas de caminos prehispánicos. Ha realizado trabajo de campo arqueológico Dzibilchaltún y diversos sitios del norte de Yucatán desde 1998, e investigación etnográfica en Campeche, México. Actualmente se encuentra desarrollando una tesis sobre la organización sociopolítica en el norte de Yucatán durante el Formativo.

UNAM Graduate Student Lupita Zetina

Lupita Zetina es estudiante de Doctorado en Antropología de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras y el Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Sus principales líneas de investigación son arqueología demográfica/paleodemografía; relación población-ambiente; análisis regionales de patrones de asentamiento y difusión de la protección y conservación del patrimonio arqueológico. Recibió su Maestría en Ecología Humana por el Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional y su licenciatura en Ciencias Antropológicas por la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Ha participado en múltiples proyectos de investigación arqueológica y etnográfica durante doce años de experiencia en gran parte del área Maya (Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Campeche, Tabasco, Chiapas y sur de Veracruz).