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Who are the Experts?
Our warmest thanks to all our Panellists for their sterling support. We particularly want to thank and pay our respects to Miguel León-Portilla, our Honorary President, who died on October 1st. 2019.
The Honorary President of our experts is Professor Miguel León-Portilla. The Grandfather of Aztec/Mexica (Náhuatl) Literature, his classic work The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest first appeared half a century ago, telling the story of the Conquest for the first time from the Aztec viewpoint.
Here are brief descriptions of our 101 experts - the silhouettes change to 'real people' when their first contributions are uploaded! That said, we respect the desire of some contributors to remain visually anonymous ...
Professor Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Professor of Art History, California State University, Los Angeles (USA)
Dr. Patricia Rieff Anawalt
Founding Director, Center for the Study of Regional Dress,
Fowler Museum at UCLA, California (USA)
Very sadly Dr. Anawalt died on October 2nd. 2015
Professor Anthony Aveni
Russell Colgate Distinguished Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology and Native American Studies, Colgate University, New York (USA)
Professor Ellen T. Baird
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)
Dr. Elizabeth Baquedano
Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University College London, Institute of Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London, and at the British Museum
Dr. William L. Barnes
Associate Professor of Art History, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Professor Juan José Batalla
Professor of American Anthropology, Department of History of the Americas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain); specialist in pre-Hispanic and colonial codices from central Mexico and in Aztec iconography
Penny Bateman
Penny Bateman worked for many years as a curator and education officer at the British Museum. She nows works in Canada as a museum education consultant. She is author of children’s books on the Aztecs and other ancient American cultures.
Professor Elizabeth Benson
Former Director of Pre-Columbian Studies and Curator for the Pre-Columbian Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC (USA)
Very sadly Professor Benson died on March 19th. 2018
Professor Frances Berdan
Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Laboratory for Ancient Materials Analysis, California State University San Bernardino (USA)
John Bierhorst
Editor-translator of Ballads of the Lords of New Spain, Cantares Mexicanos, and A Náhuatl-English Dictionary, which can be read at www.utdigital.org. Specialist interest: Aztec poetry
Dr. Arnd Adje Both
Scientific Researcher, Reiss Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim (Germany). Chair, Music Archaeology Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music
Professor Warwick Bray
Professor Emeritus, Institute of Archaeology, University College, London
Dr. Claudia Brittenham
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Art History, University of Chicago (USA)
Professor Gordon Brotherston
Honorary Professor, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester and Research Professor, University of Essex
Professor Elizabeth M Brumfiel
Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA) Very sadly, Professor Brumfiel died on January 1st. 2012
Professor Louise Burkhart
Professor of Anthropology, The University at Albany, State University of New York (USA)
Professor David Carballo
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Archaeology, Boston University (USA)
Professor Davíd Carrasco
Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, University of Harvard Divinity School, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (USA)
Dr. Caroline Cartwright
Senior Scientist, Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, British Museum, specialising in scientific analysis of organics including wood, charcoal, fibres and other plant remains, shell, ivory and bone.
Dr. Ximena Chávez Balderas
Doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Tulane University, and Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington (USA)
Professor Michael Coe
Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at Yale University, and Curator Emeritus in Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, Connecticut (USA)
Very sadly Michael Coe died on September 25th. 2019
Dr. José Contel
Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Hispano-American Studies, University of Toulouse, and researcher in the Research Institute IRIEC Toulouse; specialist in Nahua religion (gods, myths and rites) (France).
Professor Michael Costeloe
Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol Very sadly Professor Costeloe died in September 2011
Dr. Catherine DiCesare
Associate Professor and Area Coordinator, Art History, Department of Art and Art History, Colorado State University (USA)
Professor Richard A. Diehl
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (USA)
Professor Lori Boornazian Diel
Associate Professor of Art History, School of Art, Texas Christian University (USA)
Dr. Caroline Dodds Pennock
Lecturer in International History, University of Sheffield
Professor Davide Domenici
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna (Italy)
Dra. Élodie Dupey García
Doctora en historia de las religiones y antropología religiosa. Es postdoctorante del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la UNAM (México). Estudia las prácticas y las creencias religiosas relacionadas con los colores y los olores entre los nahuas del Posclásico (Mexico).
Dr. Kitty F. Emery
Associate Curator, Environmental Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville (USA)
Professor Susan Toby Evans
Professor of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University (USA)
Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Professor of History, TUFTS University, Medford, Massachusetts (USA), Professorial Fellow of Queen Mary College, University of London
Dr. Laura Filloy Nadal
Senior Conservator and Researcher at the Museo Nacional de Antropología, INAH, Mexico City (Mexico)
Professor Susan D. Gillespie
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville (USA)
Professor Elizabeth Graham
Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College, London
Dr. Salvador Guilliem Arroyo
Lead Archaeologist and Director, Tlatelolco Zone Archaeology Project, 1987-2012, INAH (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia), Mexico City (Mexico)
Dr. Joanne Harwood
Assistant Director, University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA)
Dr. Ross Hassig
Independent scholar, historical anthropologist, specializing in Mesoamerica, especially the Aztecs, focusing primarily on political, economic, and military issues.
Professor Michael Heinrich
Head of Centre and Professor, Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, The School of Pharmacy, University of London; specialist in ethnobotany of indigenous groups in Mesoamerica
Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth
Founder, President, and Director of the Foundation for Latin American Anthropological Research (FLAAR). A Harvard graduate, Nicholas has spent many decades working in Latin America, including while holding three research Fellowships at Yale University in the 1970’s.
Dr. Manuel A. Hermann Lejarazu
Senior lecturer and researcher, CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social), Mexico City. Specialist in the analysis of Mixtec codices and documents (Mexico)
Pat Hoodless
Senior Lecturer specialising in History at the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, and advisor to the QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority) on Schemes of Work for History
Professor Dorothy Hosler
Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Nicholas James
Independent scholar, consultant in the presentation of history
and archaeology, writer and lecturer
Professor Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen
Chair of the ‘Heritage of Indigenous Peoples’, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Professor Patrick Johansson
Researcher in Pre-Columbian History, Institute of Historical Research, and Professor of Nahuatl Literature, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, National University of Mexico (UNAM) (Mexico)
Dr. Anastasia Kalyuta
Researcher at the Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Specialist in pre-Hispanic and colonial Nahua history (Russia)
Dr. Frances Karttunen
Retired Professor of Linguistics and Senior University Research Scientist, Linguistics Research Centre, University of Texas (USA)
Professor Cecelia F. Klein
Professor of Art History, UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) (USA)
Professor Andrew Laird
Professor of Classics and Humanities, Professor of Hispanic Studies,
Brown University, Rhode Island (USA)
Dr. Tim Laughton
Department of Art History, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Essex. Very sadly Dr. Laughton died early in 2009
Dr. Ben Leeming
History Department, The Rivers School, Weston, MA (USA); specialist in early colonial Mexican ethnohistory, religious transculturation, colonial Nahuas and Nahuatl language, and colonial Nahuatl religious texts
Professor Miguel León-Portilla
Emeritus Professor of History, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (Mexico) Honorary President
Very sady, Miguel León-Portilla died on 1st. October 2019
Professor Patrick Lesbre
Doctor en Antropología (Escuela de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales, EHESS, Paris) y en Estudios Latinoamericanos (Universidad de Toulouse). Profesor catedrático en la Universidad de Toulouse-Le Mirail. Especialista en Tezcoco y el area acolhua prehispánica y colonial (códices, crónicas, nobleza indígena) (France)
Dr. Adrian Locke
Exhibitions Curator, Royal Academy of Arts, London; curator of the major RA exhibition Aztecs (2002-3)
Dr. Leonardo López Luján
Senior Professor and Researcher at the Museo del Templo Mayor, INAH, Mexico City and Director of the Templo Mayor Project (Mexico)
Dr. Alfredo López Austin
Researcher (Emeritus), Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma (UNAM), Mexico City (Mexico)
Professor James Maffie
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Affiliate, Latin American Studies Center, University of Maryland (USA)
Professor Joyce Marcus
Professor of Anthropology and Elman R. Service Professor of Cultural Evolution, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Curator of Latin American Archaeology, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology (USA)
Professor Jennifer Mathews
Professor of Anthropology in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Trinity University, Texas (USA)
Dr. Colin McEwan
Director of Pre-Columbian Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington (USA)
Very sadly Dr. McEwan died on March 28th. 2020
Dr. Katarzyna Mikulska
Research Professor at the Institute for Iberic and Ibero-American Studies, University of Warsaw; specialist in religious pre-Hispanic codices and Nahua religion (Poland)
Professor Mary Miller
Sterling Professor of History of Art, Yale University, New Haven (USA)
Dr. Luz María Mohar Betancourt
Senior Researcher in Social Anthropology, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores (CIESAS), Mexico City (Mexico). Director of research projects Machiyotl, Amoxcalli, Tetlacuilolli
Professor Barbara E. Mundy
Professor of Art History, Fordham University; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2015-2016, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (USA)
Dr. Francisco Xavier Nóguez Ramírez
Senior Researcher, Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio Mexiquense, Zinacantepec, Estado de México. Specialist in Mexican codices (Mexico)
Professor Guilhem Olivier
Research Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (Mexico)
Dr. Justyna Olko
Director, Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity
Faculty of “Artes Liberales” University of Warsaw (Poland)
Professor Bernard Ortiz de Montellano
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Wayne State University (USA). Very sadly Professor Ortiz de Montellano died on December 2nd., 2016
Professor Esther Pasztory
Professor in Pre-Columbian Art History, Director of Art Humanities, Columbia University, New York (USA)
Professor John M. D. Pohl
Adjunct Professor, Department of Art History at UCLA, California (USA)
Professor José Rabasa
Long Term Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Professor Kay A. Read
Professor Emeritus, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago (USA)
Professor Matthew Restall
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History, Pennsylvania State University (USA)
Dr. José Luis de Rojas y Gutiérrez de Gandarilla
Professor of Anthropology, Department of History of the Americas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain); Dr. Rojas comenzó como mayista, para pasar a ocuparse de los aztecas antes y despues de la conquista española, todo el tiempo acompañado por el estudio y enseñanza de la lengua nahuatl en Madrid.
Professor Cecilia Rossell
Professor of Mexican Codices, CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social)/CONACYT, Mexico City; specialist in pre-Columbian Aztec and Mixtec codices from central and southern Mexico
Dr. Susanna Rostas
Senior Research Associate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Professor Mike Ruggeri
Professor Emeritus City Colleges of Chicago. Moderator of the Aztlan listserv, the oldest and largest Ancient Americas listserv on the web. Maintains 26 web pages on all aspects of the Ancient Americas. Serves on the Board of the Chicago Archaeological Society and The Illinois State Archaeology Board (USA)
Professor Alan R. Sandstrom
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA)
Dr. Pamela E. Sandstrom
Associate Librarian Emerita, Walter E. Helmke Library, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) (USA)
Dr. Nicholas Saunders
Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, School of Arts, University of Bristol
Chloe Sayer
Author, exhibition curator and international expert on Mexican crafts and textile traditions
Dr. John F. Schwaller
Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York (USA)
Professor Michael E. Smith
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University (USA)
Professor David Stuart
Schele Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin; Director, the Mesoamerica Centre and Casa Herrera (Antigua, Guatemala); Research Associate, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (USA)
Professor Eric Taladoire
Professor Emeritus, Archaeology of the Americas Department, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris (France)
Professor Karl Taube
Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California at Riverside (USA)
Professor Camilla Townsend
Professor of History, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA)
Dr. Gabrielle Vail
Specialist in Maya hieroglyphic codices and Postclassic period in Maya lowlands. Research Associate, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, and Research Affiliate, InHerit: Indigenous Passed to Present, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA)
Professor Vania Smith-Oka
Nancy O’Neill Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA)
Dr. Mark Van Stone
Speaker, author, Maya expert, Professor of Art History, Southwestern College, Kansas (USA)
Professor Khristaan Villela
Research Professor of Art History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Scholar in Residence at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)
Dr. Eleanor Wake
Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies, Department of Spanish, Birkbeck College, University of London.
Very sadly Dr. Wake died in August 2013
Dr. Jane Walsh
Museum Anthropologist, specializing in Mexican archaeology & ethnohistory, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USA)
Professor Gordon Whittaker
Professor, Linguistische Anthropologie und Altamerikanistik,
Seminar für Romanische Philologie, Universität Göttingen (Germany)
Michael Wood
Historian, Writer and Presenter
Professor Stephanie Wood
Co-Director Wired Humanities Project and Professor of History, University of Oregon (USA); principal scholar, Gender in Early Mesoamerica and Virtual Mesoamerican Archive online databases.
Professor Andrew R. Wyatt
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Middle Tennessee State University (USA)
Our In-House Team
From time to time the Mexicolore team provide short, factual answers to questions not requiring full, scholarly contributions...
