Miguel Aguilera
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Phone: 480-965-8576
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Arizona State University Coor Hall 6640 975 S Myrtle Avene #4302 Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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MIGUEL ASTOR-AGUILERA (PhD Anthropology - University at Albany/SUNY) is an Arizona State University Associate Professor whose scholarship concentrates on religious studies, sociocultural anthropology, ethnography, material culture, and archaeology focusing on Indigenous epistemologies within Latin America. He specializes in Mesoamerican cosmovisions and their historical traditions, that is, pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary. His work specializes on Maya ritual specialists in the Yucatán peninsula and their cosmologies as related to their environment. Astor-Aguilera currently teaches courses at Arizona State University in Religious Studies, within the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, that are cross-listed with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Anthropology) and the School of Transborder Studies (Latin American Studies). He has been Faculty Head (Chair) of Religious Studies, Director of Graduate Studies for Religious Studies, and Associate Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at ASU.
- PhD. Anthropology, University at Albany/State University of New York
- MA. Anthropology, University at Albany/State University of New York
- BS. Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of California-Riverside
Astor-Aguilera conducts research focused on Indigenous Latin America. He specializes in Mesoamerican religions including that of contemporary “folk” healers in the United States/Mexico border zone. His research, being a sociocultural anthropologist, ethnographer, iconographer, and archaeologist specializing in religious studies is interdisciplinary and social historically holistic in method and theory. Astor-Aguilera currently conducts ethnographic investigations of cenote-sinkholes in the Yucatán peninsula and their associated religious rituals and epistemologies amongst the Maya peoples of Mexico.
The Maya World of Communicating Objects: Quadripartite Crosses, Trees, & Stones. 2010. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Rethinking Relations and Animism: Personhood & Materiality. 2018. Co-Editor Graham Harvey. London: Routledge.
Courses
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
| REL 599 | Thesis |
| REL 201 | Religion and the Modern World |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
| REL 287 | Topics Film, Media & Religion |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
| REL 599 | Thesis |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 201 | Religion and the Modern World |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
| REL 287 | Topics Film, Media & Religion |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 201 | Religion and the Modern World |
| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
| REL 599 | Thesis |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
| REL 326 | Hispanic Relig Culture&Healing |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
| REL 599 | Thesis |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 382 | Magick, Religion and Science |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
| REL 599 | Thesis |
| REL 205 | Life, Sex and Death |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
| REL 599 | Thesis |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 792 | Research |
| REL 799 | Dissertation |
| REL 599 | Thesis |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 331 | History of Native Am Religions |
- Religious Studies/School of Historical, Philosophical, & Religious Studies, Faculty Leader/ExCom Representative (2014 - 2015)