PH.D. STUDENTS

Travis F. Doering, BA (Bryant College), MS (Florida State University); Research interests: Mesoamerican archaeology, emergence of social inequality, complex society, obsidian production and exchange, survey methodology, research design; Dissertation topic: Organization of El Marquesillo, a Formative Period Olmec center in Veracruz, Mexico; Recent work: “El Marquesillo, Veracruz: Archaeological Survey Project,” presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006 (with M. L. Hernández-Jiménez). GRADUATED (MAY 2007)

Lorena D. Mihok, BA (Columbia University), MA (University of South Florida); Research interests: Mesoamerican ethnohistory, Mexican art history, codices, colonial Nahua society; Thesis topic: Cognitive dissonance in contact-period codices from central Mexico; Recent work: “Double Mistaken Identities in Post-Conquest Codices,” presented at the Southeast Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory, University of South Florida, Tampa, 2005.

José E. Moreno-Cortés, BA (University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez), BA (University of South Florida), JD (Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law); Research interests: Mesoamerican archaeology, economic anthropology, precolumbian religion; Dissertation topic: Acquisition and provisioning in the Palmarejo region of northwest Honduras; Recent work: “Materializing Social Relations: Patterns of Acquisition and Consumption in the Palmarejo Archaeological Zone,” presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006 (with K. L. Davis-Salazar).

M.A. STUDENTS

James R. Hawken, BA (Kenyon College); Research interests: Mesoamerican archaeology, political organization, settlement studies, landscape approaches; Thesis topic: Organization of quebrada communities in the Palmarejo region of northwest Honduras; Recent work: “Socio-natural Landscapes and Community Formation at Palmarejo, Honduras,” presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006 (with K. L. Davis-Salazar). GRADUATED (MAY 2007)

Lorena D. Mihok, BA (Columbia University); Research interests: Mesoamerican ethnohistory, Mexican art history, codices, colonial Nahua society; Thesis topic: Cognitive dissonance in contact-period codices from central Mexico; Recent work: “Double Mistaken Identities in Post-Conquest Codices,” presented at the Southeast Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory, University of South Florida, Tampa, 2005. GRADUATED (DECEMBER 2005)

B.A. STUDENTS

Derek Lincoln, BA (University of South Florida, in progress); Research interests: Archaeology, Mesoamerican prehistory, geoarchaeology, archaeological soil science; Thesis topic: A Geoarchaeological Evaluation of Bajos and Water Management at Palmarejo, Northwest Honduras; Recent work: “A Geoarchaeological Evaluation of Water Management Features at Palmarejo” presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of South Florida, Tampa, 2007. GRADUATED (MAY 2007)

S. Elizabeth Maberry, BA (University of South Florida, in progress); Research interests: Archaeology, ethnomusicology, museum studies, material culture, anthropology of education; Thesis topic: Museum outreach and public education of anthropology in Chicago; Recent work: “Learning from Museums: A Study of Traditional Exhibits and Ideas for Online Exhibits,” presented at the 20^th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of North Carolina, Asheville, 2006. GRADUATED (MAY 2007)

Jolien S. Verdaasdonk, BA (University of South Florida, in progress); Research interests: Mesoamerican archaeology, agriculture, pedology, soil biology and chemistry; Thesis topic: Agricultural productivity and political power in the Palmarejo region of northwest Honduras; Recent work: “Assessing Agricultural Potential and its Implications for Political Development in Northwest Honduras,” presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006 (with E. C. Wells). GRADUATED (MAY 2007)