Office:  Tisch 327
Tel:     (518) 580-5446
Email:  jek@skidmore.edu
 

EDUCATION

• PhD, Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, Date of Completion: Fall 2011
• MA, Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 2001
• BA, Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Western Washington University, 1999

REGIONAL FOCUS

Mesoamerica, specialization in the Maya Lowlands

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

• GIS Applications in Archaeology:  Predictive modeling, settlement ecology and land use patterns, sustainability studies, comparative urbanism, spatial statistics, agent-based modeling
• Urbanism in Ancient States: Urban planning, role of cities in ancient political and economic systems, low density agrarian urbanism. 
• Political Organization:  Political economy, development and decline of regional states, political geography, political organization of city-state cultures
• Economic Systems:  Local and interregional exchange systems, ancient market systems, social stratification and inequality
• Environmental Archaeology:  Settlement ecology, climatic change and sociopolitical collapse, paleodemography
• Archaeological Theory:  Social theory and archaeology, theories of practice, political ecology in archaeology, landscape archaeology
• Archaeological Methods:  Regional settlement survey, settlement patterns, ceramic analysis, household archaeology, lithic analysis

COURSES

•    AN102 Anthropology of the Human Past
•    AN251 Evolution of Human Behavior
•    AN205 Mesoamerican Archaeology
•    AN252 Aztec, Inca, and Maya Archaeology
•    AN352 The Earliest Cities
•    AN352 Environmental Archaeology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• In Review - On the Trail of Kukulkan: Mythic Trade Routes, Interaction Networks, and Interpolity Connections in the Maya Lowlands.  with William Folan and David Bolles, Ancient Mesoamerica.  
• In Press - The Political and Economic Organization of Late Classic States in the Peninsular Gulf Coast: The View from Champotón, Campeche.  Paper accepted for publication in The Ancient Maya of Mexico: Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands, edited by Geoffrey E. Braswell. Equinox Press, London.
• In Press - Patrones de Asentamiento y Cronología Cerámica del Período Formativo en la Cuenca del Río Champotón, Campeche.  Paper accepted for publication in La Costa de Campeche en     los Tiempos Prehispánicos: Una Visión 50 Años Después, edited by Rafael Cobos Palma.     Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F.
• 2011 - Producción de Herramientas Líticas en el Drenaje del río Champotón, Campeche, México, with Josalyn Ferguson, Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya:Vol 19.
• 2010 - Quetzalcoatl/Kukulkan, Rutas Comerciales y de Conquista a través de la Península de Yucatán del Siglo IX al XVI en adelante: Una Interpretación Émica y Ética de Comunicaciones Mesoamericanas Regionales y Locales, with William Folan and David Bolles, Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 18:68-84.
• 2010 - Cambios en Patrones de Afiliación de Esferas Cerámicas en el Drenaje del Río Champotón, Campeche, with Wilberth Cruz Alvarado.  Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 18: 203-218.
• 2009 - Cambios en los Sistemas de Subsistencia y Intercambio Interregional en Champotón, Campeche.  Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 17: 177-191.
• 2008 - Patrones Demográficos y Transformaciones Económicas en Champotón, Campeche. Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya, Vol 16:135-148. 
• 2006 - The Champotón Regional Settlement Survey: Results from the 2005 Field Season.  Online publication submitted to the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (http://www.famsi.org/reports/05061/05061Ek01.pdf)
• 2006 - Domestic Shrines, Ancestor Veneration, and the Ritual Production of Group Identity.  In Maya Ethnicity: The Construction of Ethnic Identity from Preclassic to Modern Times, edited by Frauke Schause, pp 165-181. Acta Mesoamericana Vol. 19, Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt Schwaben
• 2005 - Transformaciones Políticas, Económicas, y Ambientales en Champotón, Campeche, with  Roberto Rosado Ramirez.  Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya, 13:276-290.

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