CURRICULUM VITAE

UPDATED January 8, 2021

NAME Allen J. Christenson

ADDRESS Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature Brigham Young University 3008 Joseph F. Smith Building Provo, Utah 84602-6702 Phone: (801) 422-5848 Fax: (801) 422-0305 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION 1998 Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin GPA 4.0 Precolumbian Art History Dissertation: Scaling the Mountain of the Ancients: The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala

1996 M.A. The University of Texas at Austin GPA 4.0 Precolumbian Art History Thesis: Bare Bones and the Divine Right of Kings: The Carved Femurs of Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico

1985 Residency Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Washington, D.C. General Practice Residency Thesis: Dental Attritional Wear Patterns and Pre- Columbian Cultural Trends

1984 D.D.S. UCLA School of Dentistry

1980 B.S. Brigham Young University GPA 3.82 Major: Zoology; Minor: Humanities

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2009-present Professor, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

2004-2009 Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

1998-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

1996-97 Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History, The University of Texas at Austin, TX

1990-93 Instructor, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

1985-89 Part-time Faculty Member, Departments of Humanities and Art History, Merced College, CA

1978-80 Colonial Spanish and Precolumbian Language Specialist, Harold B. Lee Library Manuscript Archives, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

AWARDS AND HONORS

2012-13 P.A. Christensen Lectureship, College of Humanities, Brigham Young University

2009-11 College of Humanities Professorship in Precolumbian Studies, Brigham Young University

2002-5 University Young Scholar Award, Brigham Young University

1998 Departmental Award for Most Outstanding Dissertation of the Year, Department of Art History, The University of Texas at Austin

1997-98 William S. Livingston Endowment, The University of Texas at Austin

1996-97 David Bruton, J. Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin

1996-97 M.K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in the Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin

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1996 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, The University of Texas at Austin

1995-6 Hugh Nibley Fellowship, Brigham Young University

1994-97 University of Texas Department of Art and Art History Academic Scholarship

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Professional Affiliations: College Art Association Association for Latin American Art American Anthropological Association European Association of American Society for Ethnohistory Society of American Archaeologists

Professional Service: Principal Researcher and Consultant for Maya Dynasties Project, a long-term project to document genealogical information for all known Pre-Columbian Maya individuals (2003-present)

Committee Member for preparing the exhibition, catalogue, and accompanying film for “Lords of Creation: Origins of Sacred Kingship Among the Maya,” developed by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Curator Virginia M. Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet (2001-2005). Exhibition itinerary: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September 10, 2005-January 2, 2006; Dallas Museum of Art, February 12-May 7, 2006; Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 11-September 10, 2006.

Consultant and Reader for the following University Presses: The University of Florida Press The University of Oklahoma Press The University of Texas Press The University of Alabama Press The University of Pennsylvania Press Brigham Young University Thomson/Wadsworth Publishing

Advisor and Online Expert Precolumbian Maya Art, Theology, and Architecture, Maya Quest Program, The Quest Channel (2000 to 2002). Christenson Curriculum Vitae-4

University Committee Participation University Rank and Status Committee. 2015-2018 General Education Taskforce. 2014-present Board of Directors Member, New World Archaeology Foundation, 2009-present Director, Guatemalan Field Studies Program, Santa Catarina Palopo, Guatemala, 2008 Co-Director, London Study Abroad, January-July, 2007 University Faculty Awards Committee, 2004-6 (chair in 2006) Project Reviewer, Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (ISPART), 2004- Department Representative University Museum Committee, 2001-2004 Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Art History, 2000-present Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Anthropology/Archaeology, 2000-present Member, Advisory Board, Precolumbian Projects, for the Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (CPART), 1999- Member, Search Committee for Head Curator/Asst. Curator, BYU Museum of Art, 1999-2000 Member, Gordon B. Hinckley Scholarship Committee, 1998-2002 Member, Latin American Studies/Studies Abroad Advisory Board, 1998-present Faculty Affiliate of the Kennedy Center (Latin American Studies), 1998-present Proposal Reviewer, ORCA Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program, 1998-2001

College Committee Participation College Rank and Status Committee. 2014-2015 Barker/Christenson Lectureship Committee. 2013-2016 College Awards Committee. 2013-2016

Department Committee Participation Teaching Improvement Study Group Leader. Fall 2016 Interdisciplinary Humanities Senior Seminar Course Coordinator. 2015-present Interdisciplinary Humanities Art History Track Advisor. 2015- present. Professional Development Committee. Chair, 2014-present Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, 2004-2006; 2008-2012 Part-Time Faculty Committee, Member, 2005 Internship Coordinator, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, 2004- 2005 Ralph A. Britsch Lecture Committee Chair, 2004 Honors Coordinator, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, 2000- 2003 New Faculty Search Committee, Member, 2001, 2005, 2015 Latin American Humanities Course Development Committee, Chair, 2000-2001

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SCHOLARSHIP

Books (Peer Reviewed)

Christenson, Allen J. (in press for 2021). The Title of Totonicapán. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Holley Moyes and Allen J. Christenson (in press for 2021). The in Myth, Cosmology, and Practice. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Christenson, Allen J. (2016). Bearing the Burden of the Ancients: Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal. Austin: The University of Texas Press.

Christenson, Allen J. (2012). Popol Vuh: Libro Sagrado de los Mayas. Tr. Allen Christenson and Gloria Melendez. Mexico City: Conaculta and Fondo de Cultura Económica, pp. 495.

Christenson, Allen J. (2007). Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya. 2nd revised edition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 327.

Christenson, Allen J. (2003/4). Popol Vuh. 2 volumes. London: John Hunt Publishing, pp. 327, 320.

Christenson, Allen J. (2001). Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 258.

Christenson, Allen J. (2000). Popol Vuh: Tales of First Beginnings From the Ancient K’iche’-Maya. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, pp. 278.

Book Chapters:

Christenson, Allen J., Frauke Sachse, and Holley Moyes (in press for 2021). “Introduction: The Popol Vuh as a Window into the Mind of the Ancient Maya.” in Moyes and Christenson, ed. The Popol Vuh in Myth, Cosmology, and Ritual Practice. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Christenson, Allen J. (in press for 2021). “’For It Is With Words That We Are Sustained’: The Popol Vuh and the Creation of the First People.” In Moyes and Christenson, ed. The Popol Vuh in Myth, Cosmology, and Ritual Practice. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Christenson, Allen J. (in press for 2021). “The Cultural Legacy of the Popol Vuh.” In the Oxford Handbook of the Maya. Ed. Thomas Garrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Christenson, Allen J. and Gabrielle Vail (in press for 2021). “Animal Manifestations of the Creator in the and the Popol Vuh.” In Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica: Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic Period. Ed. Susan Milbrath and Elizabeth Baquedano. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Christenson, Allen J. (2019). “The Lady of the Lake: The Virgin Mary and the Spanish Conquest of the Maya.” In Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica: Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches. Eds. Shawn G. Morton and Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Christenson, Allen J. (2018). “The Man at the Crossroads: Francisco (Mapla’s) Sojuel, Ancestral Guardian of the Tz’utujil Maya.” In The Faces of Resistance: Maya Heroes, Power and Identity. Ed. S. Ashley Kistler. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Christenson, Allen J. (2017). “’Who Shall Be a Sustainer?’—Maize and Human Mediation in the Maya Popol Vuh.” In A Global History of Literature and the Environment. Eds. John Parham and Louise Westling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Christenson, Allen J. (2015). Preface to Songs that Make the Road Dance. By Linda O’Brien-Rothe. Austin: The University of Texas Press.

Christenson, Allen J. (2012). “The Use of Chiasmus by the Ancient K’iche’ Maya.” In Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature. Eds. Kerry M. Hull and Michael D. Carrasco. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, pp. 311-336.

Christenson, Allen J. (2011). “The World Tree and Maya Theology.” In The Tree of Life: From Eden to Eternity. Ed. John W. Welch and Donald W. Perry. Provo: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, pp. 151-170. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (2010). “Maize Was Their Flesh: Ritual Feasting in the Maya Highlands.” In Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica. Eds. John Edward Staller and Michael Carrasco. New York: Springer, pp. 577-600. Invited.

Christenson, Allen J. (2009). “Ancestral Presence at the Navel of the World: Francisco Sojuel and Santiago Atitlán.” In Landscapes of Origin in the Americas: Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities. Ed. Jessica Joyce Christie. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, pp. 98-122. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (2008). “Places of Emergence: Sacred Mountains and Cofradía Ceremonies.” In Pre-Columbian Landscapes of Creation and Origin. Ed. John Edward Staller. New York: Springer, pp. 95-122. Invited

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Christenson, Allen J. (2007). “Sacred Bundle Cults in Highland Guatemala.” In Sacred Bundles: Ritual Acts of Wrapping and Binding in Mesoamerica. Eds. F. Kent Reilly III and Julia Kappelman. Barnardsville, NC: Boundary End Archaeology Research Center, pp. 226-246. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (2007). “Their Vision Passed Beyond the Mountains: The Maya and Divine Sight.” In Look Close, See Far: A Cultural Portrait of the Maya. Ed. Bruce T. Martin. New York: George Braziller, pp. 27-35. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (2006). “You Are What You Speak: Maya as the Language of Maize.” Maya Ethnicity. Ed. Frauke Sachse. Acta Mesoamericana, Volume 19. Verlag Anton Saurwein, pp. 209-216.

Christenson, Allen J. (2005). “Dancing in the Footsteps of the Ancestors.” In Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship. Eds. Virginia Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, pp. 90-96. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (2003). “Manipulating the Cosmos: Shamanic Tables Among the Highland Maya.” Chapter in Mesas and Cosmologies in Middle America. Ed. Douglas Sharon. San Diego Museum Papers 42. San Diego: Museum of Man, pp. 93-104. Invited

Encyclopedia Entries:

Christenson, Allen J. (2016). “Indigenous Folk Saints.” In Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Ed. Henri Gooren. New York City: Springer/Meteor.

Christenson, Allen J. (2016). “Indigenous Cofradías.” In Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Ed. Henri Gooren. New York City: Springer/Meteor.

Published Conference Proceedings:

Christenson, Allen J. (2013). “The Lady of the Lake: The Virgin Mary and the Spanish Conquest of the Maya.” Chacmool Conference Proceedings. University of Calgary, Alberta. November 2012.

Christenson, Allen J. (2013). “Once They Were Foreigners, But Now They Are Maya”: Highland Maya Adoption of Foreign .” In Acta Mesoamericana—The Maya in a Mesoamerican Context. Eds. Jesper Nielsen and Christophe Helmke. Markt Schwaben, Germany: Verlag Anton Saurwein, pp. 177-186.

Christenson, Allen J. (2011). “There Was Only Joy In Their Hearts”: Ritual Feasting as Political Strategy in the Maya Highlands. Proceedings of the 14th European Maya Conference. Cracow, Poland, November 9-14 2009. Christenson Curriculum Vitae-8

Christenson, Allen J. (2009). “Who Shall Be Our Sustainer” Sacred Myth and the Spoken Word. Proceedings of the 12th European Maya Conference, Geneva, Switzerland. December 9. 2007.

Christenson, Allen J. (2007). “In the Footsteps of the Ancestors: Ancient Maya Gods and their European Counterparts.” Proceedings of the 10th Annual International European Maya Conference. Leiden, Netherlands. December 10, 2005.

Christenson, Allen J. (2006). “You Are What You Speak: Maya as the Language of Maize.” Proceedings of the 9th Annual International European Maya Conference. Bonn, Germany. December 11, 2004.

Christenson, Allen J. (2000). “The Written Word and the Maya Vision of Immortality.” In Richard H. Cracroft and Jane D. Brady, ed. Literature and Belief: Colloquia Selections, 1994- 1999. Provo: Brigham Young University. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (2000). “Midwife Divinities, Maize, and Childbirth among the Tz’utujil-Maya.” Proceedings of the Tercera Mesa Redonda de . Chiapas, Mexico.

Journal Articles:

Christenson, Allen J. (Spring 2009). “’Who Shall be Our Sustainer’: Sacred Myth and the Spoken Word.” Expedition. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Vol. 51, Number 1, pp. 9-16. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (March/April 2002). “Walking the Edge: Linda Schele on the Joys and Pitfalls of an Academic Life.” Family History Magazine. Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 14-22. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (Spring 2001). “From the ’s Jaws: Highland Maya Cofradía Houses as Effigy Caves.” PARI (Precolumbian Art Research Institute) Journal. Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 1-9. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (2000). “The Dance of First Beginnings: Contemporary Maya Creation Rituals in a World Context.” BYU Studies. Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 150-172. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (1988). “The Use of Chiasmus in the Ancient Literature of the Maya-Quiché.” The Journal of Latin American Indian Literature. Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 125-150.

Book Reviews:

Christenson, Allen J. (2020). Review of The Monuments of Piedras Negras, an Ancient , by Flora Simmons Clancy. Ethnohistory, Vol. 57, Number 3, Summer 2010, p. 513. Christenson Curriculum Vitae-9

Christenson, Allen J. (2014). Review of Izapa, Sacred Space, by V. Garth Norman. BYU Studies 53, 2 (2014), p. 190.

Christenson, Allen J. (Summer 2010). Review of The Monuments of Piedras Negras, an Ancient Maya City, by Flora Simmons Clancy. Ethnohistory, Volume 57, Number 3.

Christenson, Allen J. (July 2008). Review of Rabinal Achi: A Fifteenth-Century Maya Dynastic Drama, by Alain Breton. The Americas 65:1.

Christenson, Allen J. (2006). Review of City, Temple, Stage, by Jaime Lara. BYU Studies 45, no. 3, pp. 171-174.

Christenson, Allen J. (2005). “Dancing the World of the Ancients.” Review of Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Dream of War and , by Dennis Tedlock. Anthropology and Humanism.

Christenson, Allen J. (December 3, 2004). “Maya Dance-Dramas and the Blood of the Ancients.” Review of Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Dream of War and Sacrifice, by Dennis Tedlock. The London Times Higher Educational Supplement, no. 1669, p. 27.

Christenson, Allen J. (2004). Review of Maya Palaces and Elite Residences: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Edited by Jessica Joyce Christie. The Americas 61:2 (October 2004), pp. 343-345.

Christenson, Allen J. (2003). Review of Mesoamerican Healers. Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom, eds. University of Texas Press, Austin: 2001. Latin American Antiquity, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 238-239.

Other Publications: Christenson, Allen J. (2005). “The Ancient Maya World.” In Belize. Eds. John Noble, Susan Forsyth. Footscray, Victoria, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications, pp. 40-46. Invited

Christenson, Allen J. (2004). “Ancient Maya Culture.” In Guatemala, Belize & Yucatan. 5th Edition. Eds. Conner Gorry, Lucas Vidgen, Danny Palmerlee. Footscray, Victoria, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications, pp. 43-52. Invited

Internet Articles Published by Professional Institutions

Sachse, Frauke and Allen J. Christenson. (2008). “Tulan and the Other Side of the Sea: Unraveling a Metaphorical Concept from Highland Colonial Guatemalan Sources.” Published at www.mesoweb.com/articles/tulan/tulan Christenson Curriculum Vitae-10

Christenson, Allen J. (2004). “K’iche’-English Dictionary.” Published at www.famsi.org.

Weeks, Andrew, and Allen J. Christenson (2002). “Balancing the Cosmos.” This is a 22 minute clip from the film based on my book. Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community. The final version of the film is currently in final editing. It may be seen on archaeologychannel.org as well as mesoweb.com.

Christenson, Allen J. (Summer 2002). “You Are What You Speak: Maya as the Language of Maize.” Bridges Online Magazine. Published at http://kennedy.byu.edu/bridges/speak.html.

Christenson, Allen J. (2000). “An Interview with Allen J. Christenson: An Interview by Filmmaker Andrew Weeks.” Published 2/2000 by Mesoweb at www/mesoweb.com. Website of the Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, Merle Greene Robertson, ed.

Christenson, Allen J. (1999). “Weaving the Fabric of the Cosmos.” Published 12/99 by Mesoweb at http:www/mesoweb.com. Website of the Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, Merle Greene Robertson, ed.

Other Scholarship:

Christenson, Allen J. (2007). Popol Vuh. CD Rom. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Weeks, Andrew, and Allen J. Christenson (2009). “Balancing the Cosmos.” Full length ethographic film (130 minutes), the result of 8 years of research and filming regarding the ceremonial cycle of the community of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. The film is based in part on my book, Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community. I was the producer and principal advisor on the project, and worked with Mr. Weeks, a British Filmmaker, to film in Guatemala. In addition I worked with Mr. Weeks in filming some of the footage, helped with the editing process here at BYU, and translated many of the interviews from Tz’utujil-Maya and Spanish to English. For the project, we employed a BYU student, Matthew Schramer, a major in Theatre and Media Arts, as a mentored editor. The College of Humanities provided an office on campus for the editing work, and generously funded several trips to Guatemala to conduct research and film. The following grants were received to help fund the project:

$17,000 BYU CFAC Film Committee $11,750 New World Archaeology Foundation, Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies $17,000 BYU Archaeology Department

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES Christenson Curriculum Vitae-11

International:

2018 “The Spanish Conquest: The Birth of a New Maya Sun”. 56th Congreso Internacional de Americanistas. Salamanaca, Spain. July 15-21.

2017 “These are our : Fruit and Sacrifice in Santiago Atitlan. 22nd European Maya Conference of the Association of European Mayanists. Malmo, Sweden. December 11-16.

2017 “This Then Was the Root of Their Division”: Ritual Feasting and Interlineage Marriage Among the Highland Maya. 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Winnipeg, Canada, October 12-14.

2016 “La conquista Española—El nacimiento de un sol nuevo.” 10ᵒ Congreso Internacional de Mayistas, Izamal, Yucatán, Mexico, 26 June-2 July.

2015 “The Academic Social, and Political Ramifications of the Popol Vuh Critical Text Project. 20th European Maya Conference of the Association of European Mayanists. Bonn, Germany. December 2015

2013 “The Death and Rebirth of the World: The Spanish Conquest and Highland Maya World View.” 18th European Maya Conference of the Association of European Mayanists. Brussels, Belgium. November 2.

2013 “The Popol Vuh and Creation.” University of Copenhagen. April 6.

2013 “Modern Highland Maya World Renewing Ceremonialism.” University College of London. January 18.

2012 “El Popol Vuh y la Escritura Maya.” 26th Feria Internacional del Libro. Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes. Guadalajara, Mexico. December 2, 2012.

2012 “The Lady of the Lake: The Virgin Mary and the Spanish Conquest of the Maya.” Chacmool Conference. University of Calgary, Alberta. November 2012.

2011 “Once They Were Foreigners, But Now They Are Maya”: Highland Maya Adoption of Foreign Gods.” 16th European Maya Conference of the Association of European Mayanists. Copenhagen, Denmark. December 2011.

2010 “Thus Were Established the Four Sides”: Highland Maya Social Organization and Ancestral Presence. 15th European Maya Conference. Madrid, Spain. December 2-7. Christenson Curriculum Vitae-12

2009 “There Was Only Joy In Their Hearts”: Ritual Feasting as Political Strategy in the Maya Highlands. 14th European Maya Conference. Cracow, Poland, November 9- 14.

2007 “Who Shall Be Our Sustainer” Sacred Myth and the Spoken Word. European Maya Conference, Geneva, Switzerland. December 9. Invited, Keynote Speaker Invited

2007 “Through the Eyes of the Ancestors: Highland Maya Literature and Ceremonialism.” University College of London. May 16. Invited

2005 “In the Footsteps of the Ancestors: Ancient Maya Gods and Their European Counterparts.” 10th Annual International European Maya Conference. Leiden, Netherlands. December 10.

2004 “You Are What You Speak: Maya as the Language of Maize.” 9th Annual International European Maya Conference. Bonn, Germany. December 11.

2004 “The Popol Vuh Creation Account and Contemporary Maya World-View.” Visiting Professor Lecture. The University of Bonn. December 8. Invited

2004 “Female Creator Deities and Maize in Highland Guatemala.” 37th Annual Chacmool Conference. Calgary, Alberta. November 13. Invited

2003 “The Waters of Creation in Highland Maya Theology.” 36th Annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Alberta. November 13. Invited

2002 “Post-Conquest Maya Passion Plays.” Chacmool Conference. Calgary, Alberta. November 13-17. Invited

2002 “The Popol Vuh and Contemporary Maya Religious Practice.” NEH Lecture Series (Maya Worlds: Cultural Continuities and Change). June 26-27. Antigua, Guatemala. Invited

2001 “You Are What You Speak: Maya as the Language of Maize.” Chac Mool Conference, Calgary, Alberta. November 15-18. Invited

2000 “The First Mountain of Creation: A Highland Maya Altarpiece.” Thirtieth International Congress of the History of Art, Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art, London. September 3-8.

1999 “The Genesis Dance: Creation Rituals Among the Tz’utujil-Maya.” Maya Universe Symposium, Toronto, Ontario. October 1-3. Invited

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1999 “Midwife Divinities, Maize, and Childbirth Rituals Among the Tz’utujil-Maya.” Tercera Mesa Redonda de Palenque, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico. June 28-July 4.

National:

2019 “Animal Manifestations of the Creator Deities in the Maya Codices and the Popol Vuh. Gabrielle Vail and Allen Christenson. Annual Conference of the Society of American Archaeologists. Albuquerque, NM. April 13, 2019.

2016 “’We Shall Surely Await the Dawn’: Death and Life in Maya Theology.” American Society for Ethnohistory, Nashville, TN, November 9-12.

2015 “The Maize and World Renewal Rituals among the Postclassic to Contemporary Maya” (co-presented with Gabrielle Vail). In the Realm of the Vision Serpent—A Symposium in Honor of Linda Schele, California State University, Los Angeles, April 2015.

2014 “These You Deified Anciently”: An Authentic K’iche’ Theological Text within Fr. Domingo de Vico’s Theologia Indorum.” 2014 Annual Conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Indianapolis, October 2014.

2012 “In the Footsteps of the Ancestors: Dancing the Ancient Maya Gods.” Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. February 2012.

2012 “The Jaws of the World: Maya Caves as Portals to the World of the Sacred.” Popol Vuh Conference. University of California, Merced. March 2012.

2012 “Maya Creation and the End of Time.” University of California, Merced Public Lecture Series. March 2012.

2011 “’Maize Was Their Flesh’: Early Colonial Maya Literature and Creation.” Annual Conference of the American Society of Ethnohistory. Pasadena, CA. October 2011.

2011 “The Popol Vuh and Maya Theology.” University of California, Merced Common Reading Project Lecture (2011-12). October 2011.

2011 “The Popol Vuh and the Harrowing of Hell: The Descent of the Gods into . Texas Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin. April 2011.

2009 “To See With Ancestral Eyes: Highland Maya Ceremonialism.” Penn Maya Weekend, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. April 3-5. Invited

2009 “The Popol Vuh as Literature.” Texas Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin. Christenson Curriculum Vitae-14

Weeklong Workshop. February 23-March 1. Invited

2009 “Straightaway Their Vision Came to Them”: Ancestral Vision and Maya Ceremonialism. Tulane Maya Conference, New Orleans. February 6-8. Invited

2008 “We Thank You Doubly, Triply”—Parallel Thoughts in the Popol Vuh. American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. November 14-16.

2008 “ and Iconography”. Austin, Texas. February 18-21. Week-long session. Texas Maya Meetings. Invited

2006 “Manipulating the Cosmos: Shamanic Tables Among the Highland Maya.” University of Pennsylvania, Maya Weekend. Philadelphia. April 8. Invited

2006 “The Popol Vuh as Literature.” Texas Maya Meetings. Austin, Texas. March 13- 17. Invited

2006 “Creation Rituals among the Highland Maya. 94th Annual Conference, College Art Association. Boston. February 23.

2005 “Evening with Nicolás Chávez Sojuel and Allen Christenson.” Lecture in conjunction with the opening of exhibition, Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. October 30. Invited

2005 “Creation and Contemporary Maya Theology.” Cotsen Institute Lecture Series, University of California, Los Angeles. October 29. Invited

2005 “Cave Ceremonialism and the Sacred Maya Underworld.” Pennsylvania University Museum Lecture Series, June 11. Invited

2005 “Iconography and the Popol Vuh.” Lecture series, The Texas Maya Meetings at Austin, March 14-17. Invited

2004 “Carving the Mountain of the Ancestors: The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala.” College Art Association Conference. Seattle, WA. February 20.

2003 “The Popol Vuh and Highland Maya Theology.” International Maya Meetings at Texas. Long Workshop Lecture Series. March 10-15. Invited

2003 “Sacred Ancestral Vision. Highland Maya Creation Rituals and the Popol Vuh.” Lecture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. February 7. Invited

2002 “Dancing the Creation: Highland Maya Performance.” UCLA Maya Weekend. Los Angeles, CA. October 4-6. Invited Christenson Curriculum Vitae-15

2002 “Bearing the Burden of the Ancients: Highland Maya Ceremonies of First Creation.” 20th Annual Maya Weekend, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. April 5-7. Invited

2002 “Manipulating the Cosmos: Shamanic Tables Among the Highland Maya.” 11th Latin American Symposium, Museum of Man. San Diego, CA. March 16. Invited

2001 “Sacred Bundle Cults in Highland Guatemala.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. November 28-December 2. Invited

2001 “Dancing Within the Mountain of First Creation.” Land Lecture, San Francisco, CA. 6 October. Invited

2000 “From the Jaguar’s Jaws: Cave Imagery in Tz’utujil-Maya Tradition.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. November 15-19.

2000 “Altered States of Consciousness and Shamanism Among the Highland Maya of Guatemala.” Sibley Conference on World Traditions of Culture and Art, Austin, TX. November 2-5. Invited

2000 “Dancing on Water: Highland Maya Texts and Rituals of First Beginnings.” Seventh Annual UCLA Maya Weekend, Los Angeles, CA. October 13-15. Invited

1999 “Weaving the Serpents: Underworld Rituals of the Tz’utujil-Maya.” XVth Annual Maya Meetings at Texas, Austin. March 11-14. Invited

1997 “Precolumbian Antecedents for Modern Highland Maya Ceremonialism.” UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium. May 12.

1985 “Dental Attritional Wear Patterns and Pre-Columbian Cultural Trends.” Malcolm Grow Medical Center Continuing Education Lecture Series, Washington, D.C. July 14.

1985 “Mesoamerican Dental Deformation and Jade Inlays.” Tri-Service Western Shore Dental Society Meeting, Annapolis, Maryland. March 7.

1985 “Biologic Aspects of Dental Deformation in Pre-Columbian America.” Spring Meeting of the District of Columbia Dental Society, Washington, D.C. April 13.

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Local:

2019 “’It is with words that we are sustained’—Ancient Maya Texts and Modern Ceremonialism.” Archaeology Club Lecture, Brigham Young University. October 11, 2019.

2019 “Maize and the Ancient Maya Gods of Creation.” Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City. April 24, 2019.

2014 “Memory, Blood, and Ancestral Vision: Ancient Maya Thoughts on Life, Art, and the Eternities.” American Studies Lecture. Brigham Young University. March 27.

2012 “It is With Words That We Are Sustained: Ancestral Memory and the Ancient Maya.” P.A. Christensen Lecture, College of Humanities, Brigham Young University.

2012 “Ancient Aztec Culture and the Mexican Revolution. Utah Arts Council. Salt Lake City Public Library. September 2012.

2011 “Frida the Tehuana: Indigenous Arts and Revolution.” Viva Frida Exhibition, Utah Arts Council. Salt Lake City Public Library. September 2011.

2005 “Dancing on Water—The Maya Vision of Creation.” The College of Humanities Lecture Series, Brigham Young University, September 29. Invited

2000 “Broken Jars and Ancient Women: Indian Spirituality in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark.” Spiritual Frontiers: Beliefs and Values in the Literary West, Brigham Young University, March 30- April 1.

1999 “Breath on a Mirror: The Popol Vuh and Ancient Maya Theology.” World Literature Week, Brigham Young University. November 11. Invited