Michael Smith
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Phone: 480-727-9520
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SHESC 104C TEMPE, AZ 85287-2402
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Michael E. Smith is an archaeologist with two research themes: (1) The Aztecs, Teotihuacan, and other societies in ancient central Mexico, and, (2) comparative urbanism. He has directed fieldwork projects at numerous sites in the provinces of the Aztec empire in central Mexico. His fieldwork focuses on the excavation of houses and the study of daily life. He has published seven books and numerous scholarly articles on the Aztecs; his books include the award-winning "At Home with the Aztecs" (2016), the textbook, "The Aztecs" (3rd edition, 2012), "Aztec City-State Capitals" (2008), and "Rethinking the Aztec Economy" (co-edited by Nichols, Berdan & Smith, 2017). He now focuses on the study of urban life, society, inequality and prosperity at the ancient city of Teotihuacan.
Smith’s second major theme—comparative and transdisciplinary research on urbanism—has developed since his arrival at ASU in 2005. By analyzing ancient cities using concepts and methods from contemporary urban studies, Smith is exploring the similarities and differences among cities throughout history and around the world. Neighborhoods, wealth inequality, the provision of urban services, and patterns of scaling regularities are among the few urban universals, and Smith is part of several transdisciplinary research groups addressing these topics, These include an informal working group at ASU and the Santa Fe Institute to determine whether the regularities of urban and settlement scaling (worked out for contemporary cities) also apply to ancient cities. This project investigates cities and urbanism at the most fundamental level: the interactions among people in built environments. Smith also publishes on comparative empires, economies, and systems of social inequality.
Smith's teaching focuses on Mesoamerican archaeology, comparative urbanism, and archaeological method and theory.
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1983
Research Projects:
- Completing Research and Sharing the Data of the Teotihuacan Mapping Project
- Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Project
- Service Access in Premodern Cities
- Urban scaling in Premodern Cities
- Persistence and Continuity of Cities and Neighborhoods through History: Lessons for Sustainability (no website yet)
Why did our Neolithic ancestors give up their lifestyles of relative freedom in order to live in crowded cities ruled by kings and elites? Why did Neolithic people who were used to relatively egalitarian village living assent to the social classes, inequality and poverty of early states and cities? This transition—called the Urban Revolution by archaeologists—was one of the most fundamental transformations in human history. Yet it remains one of the most poorly understood episodes of our past. I use four strategies to address these questions with my research:
- Reconstruct Aztec and Teotihuacan society.
- Focus on households and communities, not kings and elites.
- Analyze cities comparatively, from a transdisciplinary perspective.
- Use knowledge of the past to develop insights for the future.
Strategy 1: I study the Aztecs and Teotihuacan, two of the best-known ancient urban societies of central Mexico.
Archaeologists need to figure out what life was like in the early cities and states before we can address questions of their origin.
Strategy 2: My fieldwork emphasizes the study of houses and domestic conditions, not temples, palaces, and tombs. This “household archaeology” approach studies society from the bottom up, from the "grass roots," in order to avoid the biases that come from traditional emphases on kings and elites.
Strategy 3: I analyze cities (and other social institutions) in a comparative, transdisciplinary framework. All social historical research needs to be comparative in order to reach scientifically valid conclusions about conditions in the past; cities and societies are too complex to be understood by any single academic discipline.
Strategy 4: I am exploring ways to use knowledge from the past to develop insights for the future. The past as revealed by archaeology has lessons for us today, but these can only be discovered and applied if research is done in a rigorous fashion, with serkious attention to social conditions today.
- CLICK HERE for a non-technical introduction to strategies 1 and 2.
- CLICK HERE for a non-technical introduction to strategies 3 and 4.
My lattest book is a general-audience introduciton to my research on Aztec households and communities:
At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers their Daily Life.
Service Access in Premodern Cities
Mesoamerican Archaeology Lab
Teotihuacan Mapping Project
Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Project.
Quantitative studies of ancient inequalilty
Stay tuned for a more up-to-date list. See my page on Academia.edu for a better list and downloads.
Books:
Berdan, Frances F. and Michael E. Smith (2020) Everyday Life in the Aztec World. (in press). Cambridge University Press, New York.
Smith, Michael E. (editor) (2019) Excavaciones de casas en la ciudad azteca de Yautepec, Morelos, México. BAR International Series. 2 vols. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Smith, Michael E. (n.d.) Urban Life in the Distant Past: A Comparative Archaeological Approach. (completed manuscript; final pre-submission edits in process).
Kohler, Timothy and Michael E. Smith (editors) (2018) Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences. University of Arizona Press (in press), Tucson.
Nichols, Deborah L., Frances F. Berdan and Michael E. Smith (editors) (2017) Rethinking the Aztec Economy. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Smith, Michael E. (2016) At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers their Domestic Life. Routledge, New York.
Smith, Michael E. (editor) (2015) Artefactos Domésticos de Casas Posclásicas en Cuexcomate y Capilco, Morelos. BAR International Series vol. 2696. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Arnauld, Marie Charlotte, Linda R. Manzanilla and Michael E. Smith (editors) (2012) The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Smith, Michael E. (2012) The Aztecs. 3rd ed. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.
Smith, Michael E. (editor) (2012) The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies. Cambridge University Press, New York.
Smith, Michael E. (2008) Aztec City-State Capitals. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Smith, Michael E. (2003) The Aztecs. 2nd ed. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.
Smith, Michael E. and Frances F. Berdan (editors) (2003) The Postclassic Mesoamerican World. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Smith, Michael E. and Marilyn A. Masson (editors) (2000) The Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica: A Reader. Blackwell, Oxford.
Berdan, Frances F., Richard E. Blanton, Elizabeth H. Boone, Mary G. Hodge, Michael E. Smith and Emily Umberger (1996) Aztec Imperial Strategies. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.
Hodge, Mary G. and Michael E. Smith (editors) (1994) Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, Albany.
Smith, Michael E. (1992) Archaeological Research at Aztec-Period Rural Sites in Morelos, Mexico. Volume 1, Excavations and Architecture / Investigaciones arqueológicas en sitios rurales de la época Azteca en Morelos, Tomo 1, excavaciones y arquitectura. Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology vol. 4. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Articles since 2013
2021 - Smith, Michael E., José Lobo, Matthew Peeples, Abigail York, Benjamin Stanley, Katherine Crawford, Nicolas Gauthier and Angela Huster. The Persistence of Ancient Settlements and Urban Sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2021 - Smith, Michael E. Durable Inequality in Aztec Society. Journal of Anthropological Research 77(2):162-186.
2021 - Smith, Michael E. Why Archaeology's Relevance to Global Challenges Has Not Been Recognized. Antiquity 95:1061-1069. (with comments and response)
2021 - Smith, Michael E., Timothy S. Hare, Lisa Montiel, Anne Sherfield and Angela C. Huster. Settlement Patterns and Urbanization in the Yautepec Valley of Central Mexico. Open Archaeology 7(1):378-416.
2021 - Smith, Michael E., Scott G. Ortman, José Lobo, Claire E. Ebert, Keith M. Prufer, Amy E. Thompson, Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo and Robert M. Rosenswig. The Low-Density Urban Systems of the Classic-Period Maya and Izapa: Insights from Settlement Scaling Theory. Latin American Antiquity 32(1):120-137.
2020 - Cesaretti, Rudolf, José Lobo, Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Michael E. Smith. Increasing Returns to Scale in the Towns of Early Tudor England. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplilnary History 53(3):147-165.
2020 - Lobo, José, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Scott G. Ortman and Michael E. Smith. Settlement Scaling Theory: Bridging the Study of Ancient and Contemporary Urban Systems Urban Studies 57(4):731-747.
2020 - Ortman, Scott G., José Lobo and Michael E. Smith. Cities: Complexity, Theory, and History. PLOS-One 15(12):e0243621.
2020 - Ortman, Scott G., Michael E. Smith, José Lobo and Luís M.A. Bettencourt . Why Archaeology is Necessary for a Theory of Urbanization. Journal of Urban Archaeology 1:152-167.
2020 - Smith, Michael E. Ancient Egyptian Urbanism in a Comparative, Global Context. Journal of Egyptian History 13 (published in 2021) :77-100.
2020 - Smith, Michael E. The Comparative Analysis of Early Cities and Urban Deposits. Journal of Urban Archaeology 2:197-205.
2020 - Smith, Michael E. Definitions and Comparisons in Urban Archaeology. Journal of Urban Archaeology 1:15-30.
2020 - Smith, Michael E. Mesoamerica's First World City: Teotihuacan in Comparative Context. In Teotihuacan: The World Beyond the City, edited by Kenneth G. Hirth, David M. Carballo and Barbara Arroyo, pp. 33-56. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.
2020 - Smith, Michael E. Teotihuacan and its Distant Neighbors: Models for Interaction. In Teotihuacan: The World Beyond the City, edited by Kenneth G. Hirth, David M. Carballo and Barbara Arroyo, pp. 463-478. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.
Smith, Michael E. and Maëlle Sergheraert (2020) The Aztec Empire. In The Oxford World History of Empire, edited by Peter F. Bang, C.A. Bayly and Walter Scheidel, pp. 671-691. vol. 2. Oxford University Press, New York.
2020 - Smith, Michael E., M. Oralia Cabrera Cortés, Karen Cowgill, Keith W. Kintigh, Deborah L. Nichols, Ian G. Robertson and Barbara L. Stark. George L. Cowgill, 19 December 1929 - 31 July 2018. Ancient Mesoamerica 31:377-385.
2019 - Smith, Michael E. (2019) Energized Crowding and the Generative Role of Settlement Aggregation and Urbanization. In Coming Together: Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization, edited by Attila Gyucha, pp. 37-58. State University of New York Press, Albany.
2019 - Smith, Michael E. and José Lobo (2019) Cities through the Ages: One Thing or Many? Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 6 (Special issue: Where to Cities Come From and Where are They Going to? Modelling Past and Present Agglomerations to Understand Urban Ways of Life):Article 12.
2018 - Smith, Michael E. (2018) De Teotihuacan a Tenochtitlan: Dos Trayectorias de Cambio Social (in English). Revista Española de Antropología Americana 47:239-254.
2018 - Smith, Michael E. (2018) El Posclásico: Yautepec. Arqueología Mexicana 153:54-59
2018 - Huster, Angela C., Michael E. Smith, Oralia Cabrera, Marion Forest, Francis P. McManamon and Ian G. Robertson (2018) Project Gallery: Documenting, Disseminating, and Archiving Data from the Teotihuacan Mapping Project. Antiquity 92(363):e9.
2018 - Smith, Michael E. (2018) The Importance of a Comparative Perspective in the Study of Ancient Economies. Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsarchäologie. Habelt-Verlag, Bonn.(Yes, it is an article)
2018 - Smith, Michael E., Timothy Kohler and Gary M. Feinman (2018) Studying Inequality's Deep Past. In Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences, edited by Timothy Kohler and Michael E. Smith, pp. 3-38. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2017 - Smith, Michael E. (2017) Cities in the Aztec Empire: The Interplay of Commerce, Imperialism and Urbanization. In Rethinking the Aztec Economy, edited by Deborah Nichols, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith, pp. 44-67. University of Arizona Press, Tucso
2017 - Kohler, Timothy A., Michael E. Smith, Amy Bogaard, Gary M. Feinman, Christina E. Peterson, Aleen Betzenhauser, Matthew C. Pailes, Elizabeth C. Stone, Anna Marie Prentiss, Timothy Dennehy, Laura Ellyson, Linda M. Nicholas, Ronald K. Faulseit, Amy Styring, Jade Whitlam, Mattia Fochesato, Thomas A. Foor and Samuel Bowles (2017) Greater Post-Neolithic Wealth Disparities in Eurasia than in North and Mesoamerica. Nature 551:619-622.
2017 - Smith, Michael E. (2017) Bounding Empires and Political/Military Networks Using Archaeological Data. Journal of Globalization Studies 8(1):30-47.
2017 - Smith, Michael E. and Carola Hein (2017) The Ancient Past in the Urban Present: The Use of Early Models in Urban Design. In Routledge Handbook of Planning History, edited by Carola Hein, pp. 109-120. Routledge, New York.
2017 - Smith, Michael E., The Teotihuacan Anomaly: The Historical Trajectory of Urban Planning in Central Mexico. Open Archaeology 3(1):175-193.
2017 - Smith, Michael E., Social Science and Archaeological Inquiry. Antiquity 91(356):520-528.
2017 - Smith, Michael E. and Carola Hein. The Ancient Past in the Urban Present: The Use of Early Models in Urban Design. In Routledge Handbook of Planning History, edited by Carola Hein, pp. 109-120. Routledge, New York.
2017 - Smith, Michael E. Cities in the Aztec Empire: The Interplay of Commerce, Imperialism and Urbanization. In Rethinking the Aztec Economy, edited by Deborah Nichols, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith, pp. 44-67. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2017 - Letesson, Quentin, Carl Knappett and Michael E. Smith. A Comparative Perspective on Minoan Urbanism. In Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Envirionment, edited by Quentin Letesson and Carl Knappett, pp. 361-390. Oxford University Press, New York.
2016 - Stanley, Benjamin W., Timothy Dennehy, Michael E. Smith, Barbara L. Stark, Abigail York, George L. Cowgill, Juliana Novic and Gerald Ek, Service Access in Premodern Cities: An Exploratory Comparison of Spatial Equity. Journal of Urban History 42(1):121-144.
2016 - Smith, Michael E., Timothy Dennehy, April Kamp-Whittaker, Benjamin Stanley, Barbara L. Stark and Abigail York, Conceptual Approaches to Service Provision in Cities through the Ages. Urban Studies 53(8):1574-1590.
2016 - Smith, Michael E., Barbara L. Stark, Wen-Ching Chuan, Timothy Dennehy, Sharon L. Harlan, April Kamp-Whittaker, Benjamin Stanley and Abigail York, Comparative Methods for Premodern Cities: Coding for Governance and Class Mobility. Cross-Cultural Research 50(5):415-451.
2016 - Smith, Michael E. and Frederic Hicks. Inequality and Social Class. In Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, pp. 425-436. Oxford University Press, New York.
2016 - Smith, Michael E. Quality of Life and Prosperity in Ancient Households and Communities. In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology (book in press), edited by Christian Isendahl and Daryl Stump. Oxford University Press, New York.
2016 - Smith, Michael E. How Can Archaeologists Identify Early Cities: Definitions, Types, and Attributes. In Eurasia at the Dawn of History: Urbanization and Social Change, edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz and Dirk Krausse, pp. 153-168. Cambridge University Press, New York.
2016 - Smith, Michael E. Aztec Urbanism: Cities and Towns. In Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, pp. 201-217. Oxford University Press, New York.
2016 - Ortman, Scott G., Kaitlyn E. Davis, José Lobo, Michael E. Smith, Luis M.A. Bettencourt and Aaron Trumbo, Settlement Scaling and Economic Change in the Central Andes. Journal of Archaeological Science 73:94-106.
2016 - Olson, Jan Marie and Michael E. Smith, Material Expressions of Wealth and Social Class at Aztec-Period Sites in Morelos, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 27(1):133-147.
2016 - Cesaretti, Rudolf, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Jose Lobo, Scott Ortman and Michael E. Smith, Population-Area Relationship in Medieval European Cities. PLOS-One 11(10):e162678.
2015 - Smith, Michael E., Ashley Engquist, Cinthia Carvajal, Katrina Johnston, Amanda Young, Monica Algara, Yui Kuznetsov and Bridgette Gilliland, Neighborhood Formation in Semi-Urban Settlements. Journal of Urbanism 8(2):173-198.
2015 - Smith, Michael E., How Can Archaeologists Make Better Arguments? The SAA Archaeological Record 15(4):18-23.
2015 - Smith, Michael E., Comment on Carrahar and Reinhard. Internet Archaeology ___:in press.
2015 - Smith, Michael E. and Clara Paz Bautista, Las almenas en la ciudad antigua de Teotihuacan (versión corregida). Mexicon 37(5):118-125.
2015 - Smith, Michael E. The Aztec Empire. In Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States, edited by Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel, pp. 71-114. Cambridge University Press, New York.
2015 - Smith, Michael E. Sociedad y desarrollo económico. In Itinerario de Hernán Cortés, edited by Martín Almagro Gorbea and Cristina Esteras, pp. 65-70. Canal de Isabel II, Madrid.
2015 - Smith, Michael E. Mesoamerican State Formation in the Postclassic Period. In Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conquest, 500 CE - 1500 CE, edited by Benjamin Kedar and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, pp. 598-624. Cambridge History of the World. vol. 5. Cambridge University Press, New York.
2015 - Smith, Michael E. Las bodegas de museos como fuente de información arqueológica: Las contribuciones de Felipe Solís Olguín. In Homenaje al maestro Felipe Solís Olguín, edited by Roberto García Moll and Rafael Fierro Padilla, pp. 355-367. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City.
2015 - Huster, Angela C. and Michael E. Smith, A New Archaeological Chronology for Calixtlahuaca, Toluca Valley, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 26(1):3-25.
2014 - Smith, Michael E., Timothy Dennehy, April Kamp-Whittaker, Emily Colon and Rebecca Harkness, Quantitative Measures of Wealth Inequality in Ancient Central Mexican Communities. Advances in Archaeological Practice 2(4):311-323.
2014 - Smith, Michael E., Jason Ur and Gary M. Feinman, Jane Jacobs’s 'Cities-First' Model and Archaeological Reality. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38(4):1525-1535.
2014 - Smith, Michael E., The Aztecs Paid Taxes, not Tribute. Mexicon 36(1):19-22.
2014 - Smith, Michael E., Peasant Mobility, Local Migration, and Premodern Urbanization. World Archaeology 46(4):516-533.
2014 - Smith, Michael E., Housing in Premodern Cities: Patterns of Social and Spatial Variation. International Journal of Architectural Research 8(3):207-222.
2014 - Smith, Michael E. The Archaeology of Tezcatlipoca. In Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity, edited by Elizabeth Baquedano, pp. 7-39. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
2013 - Smith, Michael E., Aleksander Borejsza, Angela Huster, Charles D. Frederick, Isabel Rodríguez López and Cynthia Heath-Smith, Aztec-Period Houses and Terraces at Calixtlahuaca: The Changing Morphology of a Mesoamerican Hilltop Urban Center. Journal of Field Archaeology 38(3):227-243.
2013 - Smith, Michael E. Calixtlahuaca: Capital del Antiguo Matlatzinco. In Patrimonio Arqueológico de Toluca: Herencia Milenaria, edited by Fernando Guerrero Villagómez and Ana Luisa Elias Moreno, pp. 91-106. H. Ayuntamiento de Toluca and Implan, Toluca.
2013 - Isendahl, Christian and Michael E. Smith, Sustainable Agrarian Urbanism: The Low-Density Cities of the Mayas and Aztecs. Cities 31:132-143.
2013 - Huster, Angela C., Michael E. Smith and Juliana Novic. Artefactos rituales de contextos públicos y domésticos en Calixtlahuaca. In Bajo el volcán: Vida y ritualidad en torno al Nevado de Toluca, edited by Silvina Vigliani and Roberto Junco, pp. 203-223. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City.
- These grants are supposed to show up automnatically, but my recent NSF grants do not seem to be listed.
- Smith,Michael E*. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Regional Interaction as World-System Inc. NSF-SBE(2/1/2015 - 1/31/2016).
- Smith,Michael E*, Boone,Christopher G, Boone,Christopher G, Harlan,Sharon, York,Abigail. Service Access in Premodern Cities. NSF-ENG-BCS(6/15/2013 - 5/31/2016).
- Smith,Michael E*. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Effects of Aztec Conquest on Provincial Commoner Households at Calixtlahuaca Mexico. NSF-ENG-BCS(2/15/2012 - 1/31/2014).
- Smith,Michael E*. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Neighborhood Dynamics at Calixtlhuaca Mexico student: Juliana Novic. NSF-SBE(11/15/2011 - 10/31/2013).
- Smith,Michael E*. The Urban Economy of Aztec-Period Calixtlahuaca Mexico. NSF-SBE(9/1/2009 - 9/30/2015).
- Smith,Michael E*. Urbanization and Empire at the Aztec-period city of Calixtlahuaca (Toluca Valley, Mexico). NSF-SBE(7/1/2006 - 6/30/2009).
- Smith,Michael E*. Curation of Archaeological Materials from Morelos, Mexico, Stage 1. NSF-SBE(3/15/2006 - 2/28/2007).
Courses
2026 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
2026 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 592 | Research |
2025 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 490 | Earliest Cities |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 560 | Theory and Archaeology |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 223 | Aztecs, Incas and Mayas |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 490 | Earliest Cities |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 223 | Aztecs, Incas and Mayas |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 490 | Earliest Cities |
| ASB 222 | Buried Cities and Lost Tribes |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 560 | Theory and Archaeology |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 490 | Earliest Cities |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 223 | Aztecs, Incas and Mayas |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
For my professional talks and presentations, see my CV
AWARDS:
2017 Best book, popular category (Society for American Archaeology) for At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers their Daily Life).
2017 Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award. Arizona State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
2014 Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award (faculty category). Arizona State University, Office of the University Provost, Committee on Campus Inclusion.
2007 Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize for the “Best Scholarly Article on American Planning History” for paper, “Form and Meaning in the Earliest Cities: A New Approach to Ancient Urban Planning” (Society for American City and Regional Planning History).
- Neighborhoods Connect, Phoenix, Member (2014 - Present)
- Arizona Archaeological Society, Invited public lecture (2013 - Present)
- National Science Foundation, Interdisciplinary Social & Behavioral Sciences (IBSS) panel, Panel member (2013 - Present)
- Shanghai Archaeological Forum, Corresponding member of the Advisory Committee (2013 - Present)
- Arizona Science Center, Adult's Night Out program, Invited speaker (2011 - Present)
- Pueblo Grande Auxiliary, Invited lecture (2011 - Present)
- Sociedad Cultural Yautepec (Yautepec, Mexico), Invited public lecture (2010 - Present)
- Science Cafe series, Arizona Science Center, Invited lecture (2010 - Present)
- Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Consultation with students and faculty on professional issues (2009 - Present)
- Book series: "The Early Americas: Studies in History and Culture", Member, Editorial Board (2007 - 2015)
- Arizona State University, Expert and consultant for high school research projects (2005 - Present)
- Book Series: "Ancient Cities of the New World", Series Co-Editor (2005 - Present)
- Ancient Mesoamerica, Member, Editorial Board (1990 - Present)
- SHESC, Graduate Program, Director (2014 - 2017)
- Archaeology Planning Committee, Member (2012 - 2013)