Marcello A. Canuto Associate Professor Department of Anthropology Director Middle American Research Institute Tulane University 301 Dinwiddie Hall 6823 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA, 70118 (504) 862-3051
[email protected] EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 1987-1991 A.B. magna cum laude with highest honors in Anthropology, Harvard University Senior Honors Thesis: Archaeology as Writing and Practice Advisor: Dr. Rosemary A. Joyce; Committee: Robert W. Preucel, Stephen Black 1991-2002 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Dissertation: A Tale of Two Communities: Social and Political Transformation in the Hinterlands of the Maya Polity of Copan Advisor: Robert J. Sharer; Committee: Wendy A. Ashmore, Clark Erickson RESEARCH INTERESTS archaeology; Mesoamerica; early complex societies; monumental architecture; urbanism; archaeological theory; settlement archaeology; community studies; remote sensing applications to archaeology TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS HELD 1992-1994 Writing Across the University Tutor (WATU), University of Pennsylvania 1993 WATU Course Assistant, Dept. of History, University of Pennsylvania 1994 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1995 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1997 Instructor, Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1998 Instructor, Dept. of Romance Languages, Drexel University 1998 Instructor, Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1997-2000 Field Instructor, Harvard Archaeological Field School, Copan, Honduras.