Karla L. Davis-Salazar

 

Department of Anthropology

University of South Florida

4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC 107

Tampa, FL 33620-8100

Tel: (813) 974-6339

kdavis@cas.usf.edu

 

EDUCATION

2001         Ph.D.  Anthropology, Harvard University

1997         M.A.  Anthropology, Harvard University

1989         B.A.  French, University of Michigan

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2004+       Assistant Professor. Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida

2004-03   Instructor. Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida

2003-02   Postdoctoral Research Associate. Archaeological Research Institute, Arizona State University 

2002-01   Lecturer. Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University

 

OTHER POSITIONS HELD

2003+       Project Director. Palmarejo Community Archaeological Project and Field School (with E. C. Wells and J. E. Moreno-Cortés); Santa Barbara, Honduras

1999-92   Excavation Supervisor. Copán Archaeological Project, Copán, Honduras

1998         Head Teaching Fellow. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

1997         Teaching Fellow. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

1996         Head Teaching Fellow. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

1994         Teaching Assistant. Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University

1992-91   Laboratory Assistant. Copán Archaeological Project, Copán, Honduras

 

AWARDS

2008         Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award. University of South Florida

2007         Hispanic Pathways Award (in recognition of outstanding research, writing, and outreach that creates pathways to the betterment of the lives of Latinos). USF Latin Community Advisory Committee

2007         Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Mentor. Office of the Provost, University of South Florida

2006         Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida

1998         Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education, Harvard University

1998         Certificate of Distinction in Promoting Undergraduate Writing. Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University

 

GRANTS

External

2006         Research Grant. Florida Wildlife Federation; $117,661

2005         Research and Exploration Grant. National Geographic Society; $19,350 (Co-PI)

2004         Materials Use: Science, Engineering, and Society Grant (BES-0442977). Biocomplexity in the Environment Program, National Science Foundation; $114,982 (Co-PI)

2002         Research Grant. Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies; $4,400

 

Internal

2008         Summer Research Grant. Humanities Institute, USF; $5,000

2007         Innovative Teaching Grant. Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence, USF; $10,000

2006         UR Grant. Office of Undergraduate Research, Honors College, USF; $10,000

2005         New Researcher Grant. Division of Research Grants, USF; $6,000

2005         Junior Faculty Travel Grant. Patel Center for Global Solutions, USF; $1,330

2005         Undergraduate Research Scholars Grant. Honors College, USF; $100

2005         Undergraduate Research Scholars Grant. Honors College, USF; $100

2004         New Researcher Grant. Division of Research Grants, USF; $9,950 (Co-PI)

2004         Research Grant. Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies, USF; $700

2004         Faculty Development Grant. College of Arts and Sciences, USF; $500

2004         Program Enhancement Grant. Tampa Library, USF; $3,500 (Co-PI)

1997         Research Grant. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; $1,200

 

FELLOWSHIPS

2001         Junior Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; $8,500

2000         Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities. $21,500     

2000         Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Harvard University; $6,000

2000         Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Harvard University; $7,500

1999         John Owens Fellowship. Harvard University; $2,000

1998         Merit Fellowship. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; $5,000

1998         Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship. Harvard University; $6,000

1997         Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship. Harvard University; $3,000

1996         John Owens Fellowship. Harvard University; $1,000

1995         Graduate Prize Fellowship. Harvard University; $35,000

 

PUBLICATIONS (*peer-reviewed)

Books

*2007     Mesoamerican Ritual Economy: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. (E. C. Wells and K. L. Davis-Salazar, Editors)

 

Journal Articles

*2007     Balancing Archaeological Responsibilities and Community Commitments: A Case from Honduras. Journal of Field Archaeology 32(2):196-205. (K. L. Davis-Salazar, E. C. Wells, J. E. Moreno-Cortés)        

 

*2006     Late Classic Maya Drainage and Flood Control at Copán, Honduras. Ancient Mesoamerica 17(1):125-138.

 

2004       Situational Sacredness: Temporary Ritual Space and Authority in Ancient and Modern Honduras. Cuadernos 1(1):1-18. (E. C. Wells and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

*2003     Late Classic Maya Water Management and Community Organization at Copán, Honduras. Latin American Antiquity 14(3):275-299.

 

2003       Sagrado por el momento: espacios rituales temporales y el concepto de autoridad en la antigua y moderna Honduras. Yaxkin 22:52-65. (E. C. Wells and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

Book Chapters

*2008     Environmental Worldview and Ritual Economy among the Lenca of Honduras. Research in Economic Anthropology 27:189-217. (E. C. Wells and K. L. Davis-Salazar) In press.

 

*2008     Intercambio interregional e ideología del Horizonte Temprano en el Valle de Copán, Honduras. In Ideología política y sociedad en el período Formativo: ensayos en homenaje al doctor David C. Grove, edited by A. Cyphers and K. Hirth. Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. (W. L. Fash and K. L. Davis-Salazar) In press.

 

*2007     Ritual Consumption and the Origins of Social Inequality in Early Formative Copán, Honduras. In Mesoamerican Ritual Economy: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives, edited by E. C. Wells and K. L. Davis-Salazar, pp. 197-220. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

 

*2007     Materialization as Ritual and Economic Process. In Mesoamerican Ritual Economy: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives, edited by E. C. Wells and K. L. Davis-Salazar, pp. 1-26. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. (E. C. Wells and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

2006       Copán Water Ritual and Management: Imagery and Sacred Place. In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, edited by L. J. Lucero, and B. W. Fash, pp. 126-143. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. (B. W. Fash and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

2006       The Group Research Poster as a Method of Student Inquiry in Large Classes. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, 4th ed., edited by P. C. Rice and D. W. McCurdy, pp. 47-52. Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. (K. L. Davis-Salazar and S. Watson)

 

2005       Nuevos datos acerca de la ofrenda Motmot en Copán, Honduras: análisis de los pigmentos. Memoria del VIII Seminario de Antropología de Honduras, edited by C. J. Fajardo. Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

              

*2004     Setting the Stage: Origins of the Hieroglyphic Stairway Plaza on the Great Period Ending. In Understanding Early Classic Copán, edited by E. E. Bell, M. C. Canuto, and R. J. Sharer, pp. 61-80. University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia. (W. L. Fash, B. W. Fash, and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

2004       El contexto preclásico de Copán: nuevas perspectivas y exploraciones. In VII Seminario de Antropología de Honduras “Dr. George Hasemann,” edited by C. J. Fajardo and K. R. Ávalos, pp. 3-10. Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (Fash, William L., K. L. Davis-Salazar, and B. W. Fash)

 

2002       Las lagunas de Copán: implicaciones sociales del manejo del agua en el centro urbano. In XVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2002, edited by J. P. Laporte and H. Escobedo. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.

 

2000       Una comparación entre los depósitos funerarios de dos mujeres de élite en la acrópolis de Copán, Honduras. In XIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 1999, edited by J. P. Laporte and H. Escobedo. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala. (K. L. Davis-Salazar and E. E. Bell)

 

Book Reviews and Newsletter Items

2005       Book Review: Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo: Social and Environmental Change in the Wetlands of Belize by J. L. Kunen (2004). Geoarchaeology 20(3):329-331.

 

2004       Academic Archaeology is Public Archaeology. SAA Archaeological Record 4(2):26-29. (N. M. White, B. R. Weisman, R. H. Tykot, E. C. Wells, K. L. Davis-Salazar, J. W. Arthur, and K. Weedman)

 

2004       Multi-elemental Analysis of Ancient Maya Pigments Reveals New Information on Political and Religious Rituals at Copán, Honduras. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin 27(3):9-10.

 

Technical Reports

2007       Proyecto arqueológico comunidad Palmarejo: informe preliminar de la tercera temporada, 2007. Report submitted to the Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (J. E. Moreno-Cortés, E. C. Wells, and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

2006       Proyecto arqueológico comunidad Palmarejo: informe final de la tercera temporada, 2006. Report submitted to the Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (J. E. Moreno-Cortés, E. C. Wells, and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

2005       Proyecto arqueológico comunidad Palmarejo: informe final de la segunda temporada, 2005. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (K. L. Davis-Salazar, E. C. Wells, and J. E. Moreno-Cortés)

 

2004       Proyecto arqueológico comunidad Palmarejo: informe final de la primera temporada, 2004. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (E. C. Wells, K. L. Davis-Salazar, and J. E. Moreno-Cortés)

 

1999       Continuación de las investigaciones del período preclásico inferior, Grupo 9N-8, Las Sepulturas. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

 

1998       Investigaciones de los contextos Rayo y Gordon bajo la Estructura 9N-82, Las Sepulturas. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

 

1997       Investigations of Classic Maya Water Management at Copán. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

 

1995       Investigations of Classic Maya Water Management at Copán. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

 

1994       Investigaciones de las lagunas en El Bosque y Las Sepulturas. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

 

1993       Rescate en la aldea de Sesesmil 2o. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

 

1993       Rescate en el Quebracho. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

 

1993       Further Notes on Burial XXXVII-8. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (W. L. Fash, K. L. Davis-Salazar, and B. W. Fash)

 

1993       Costume Elements and the Founding of the Principal Group. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (W. L. Fash, B. W. Fash, and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

1993       Shamanism, Public Monuments, and the Founding of a Classic Maya City. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (W. L. Fash, R. V. Williamson, B. W. Fash, and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

1993       Copán Burial XXXVII-8 and its implications. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.(W. L. Fash, R. V. Williamson, B. W. Fash, and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

1992       Excavaciones en la pista de aterrizaje en preparación para la construcción del nuevo museo de escultura. Report submitted to the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS (*invited)

Presentations at Professional Meetings

*2008     The Cultural Construction of Classic Maya Hydraulic Engineering. Presented in the symposium, “Hydraulic Constructions in Archaeological Contexts,” at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

*2008     Applying Archaeology to Agroecological Development in Honduras. Presented in the symposium, “Archaeological Contributions to Understanding Socioecological Systems: Emerging Collaborations between Ecology and Archaeology,” at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. (J. Moreno-Cortés, E. C. Wells and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

2007       The Discovery, Recovery, and Analysis of an Ulúa-style Marble Vase from the Palmarejo Valley, Honduras. Presented at the 3rd Annual Southeast Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Columbia, South Carolina. (E. Christian Wells, K. L. Davis-Salazar, and José E. Moreno-Cortés)

 

*2007     Anthropological Approaches to Environmental Engineering: Drinking Water Quality in Rural Honduras. Presented in the symposium, “Point-of-Use Water Treatment Technologies for Developing Global Communities,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, Blackburn, Virginia. (K. L. Davis-Salazar and J. Cunningham)

 

*2007     Ideology and Power in the Art of Ancient Water Management. Presented at the III International Congress at Copán, Copán, Honduras. (B. W. Fash and K. L. Davis-Salazar).

 

*2007     Agua y arqueología en el valle de Palmarejo: haciendo uso del pasado para mejorar el presente. Presented in the symposium, “Arqueología, Participación Comunitaria y Patrimonio en Honduras,” at the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Comayagua, Honduras. (K. L. Davis-Salazar, E. Christian Wells, and José E. Moreno-Cortés)

 

*2007     El rescate del pasado antiguo de Palmarejo: las recompensas de una arqueología participativa. Presented in the symposium, “Arqueología, Participación Comunitaria y Patrimonio en Honduras,” at the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Comayagua, Honduras. (E. Christian Wells, K. L. Davis-Salazar, and José E. Moreno-Cortés)

 

*2007     Learning from Prehispanic Anthropogenic Environments: Applied Archaeology and Rural Development in Northwest Honduras. Presented in the symposium, “The Archaeology of Anthropogenic Environments,” at the 24th Annual Visiting Scholars Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois (K. L. Davis-Salazar and E. C. Wells)

 

*2007     Alternative Models for Settlement and Land Use in Prehispanic Northwest Honduras. Presented in the symposium, “Archaeology, Demography, and Ecology,” at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas. (K. L. Davis-Salazar, E. C. Wells, and D. D. Kuehn)

 

*2007     Applying Archaeology to Rural Development in Honduras. Presented in the symposium, “Current Initiatives and Proposals about Public Archaeology in Honduras,” at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas. (E. C. Wells, K. L. Davis-Salazar, and J. E. Moreno-Cortés)

 

*2007     Participatory Archaeological Research and Rural Development in the Palmarejo Valley, Honduras. Presented in the symposium, “Mapping Gender, Ethnicity, and Participation: Natural Resources and ‘Rural’ Livelihoods in the South,” at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa, Florida. (E. C. Wells and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

2007       Quality or Quantity? Weighing the Impacts of Land Tenure and Use Patterns on Drinking Water in a Honduran Valley. Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa, FL. (C. T. Bahamondes and K. L. Davis-Salazar)

 

*2006     Conflict, Compromise, and Collaboration: Managing Archaeological Resources in Northwest Honduras. Presented in the symposium, “The Intersection between Archaeology and Community in the Developing World,” at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, California. (E. C. Wells, K. L. Davis-Salazar, and J. E. Moreno-Cortes)