JAMES A. DOYLE, Ph.D.

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1 JAMES A. DOYLE, Ph.D. CURRENT APPOINTMENT The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014-present Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and The Americas Assistant Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas New York, NY PRIOR APPOINTMENTS Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Post-Doctoral Associate in Pre-Columbian Studies Washington, DC Georgetown University, Adjunct Instructor Science, Technology, and International Affairs Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service The Catholic University of America, 2013 Adjunct Instructor Department of Anthropology Washington, DC Adjunct Instructor Department of Art and Art History Georgetown College Washington, DC EDUCATION Brown University Providence, RI Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, 2013 Dissertation Title The First Maya Collapse : The End of the Preclassic Period at El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala M.A., Department of Anthropology, 2009 Vanderbilt University B.A., magna cum laude, Anthropology with High Honors, 2005 Honors and Awards: 2005 Honors in the College of Arts and Science Dean s List Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Full-Tuition Honors Scholar Nashville, TN RESEARCH INTERESTS Precolumbian Civilizations: Mesoamerican Archaeology and Art History; Preclassic Maya culture (ca BC AD 250); emerging politics; monumental architecture and art; urbanism; landscape; ritual practice; performance; human/environmental interaction; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); writing systems; epigraphy; paleography Languages: English (Native); Spanish (Fluent)

2 GRANTS 2015 Metropolitan Museum Research Travel Grant, Metal Arts of the Americas ($5,000) 2014 Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Grant, Colin McEwan, PI ($12,750) 2013 Catholic University of America Grant-In-Aid, Ica Valley Project, Anita Cook, PI ($4,000) 2012 GeoEye Foundation Imagery Grant, Yaxha Pilot Study, with Laura Gámez Brown University, Graduate School, Dissertation Award ($9,500) National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant ($20,000) Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant ($11,000) 2010 Brown University, Graduate School, Research Travel Grant ($1,800) 2009 Tinker Foundation, Summer Research Travel in Latin America ($1,000) 2008 Brown University, Department of Anthropology, Summer Research ($600) 2004 Vanderbilt University, Undergraduate Summer Research Program ($4,000) 2003 Vanderbilt University, Undergraduate Summer Research Program ($3,500) FELLOWSHIPS Richard and Edna Salomon Fellow, Brown University Junior Fellow, Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC Visiting Researcher, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History Mesoamerica Center, Casa Herrera, Antigua, Guatemala 2010 Short-Term Pre-Doctoral Resident, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC Joukowsky Family Fellow at the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University EXPERIENCE TEACHING EXPERIENCE Spring 2014 Environmental History of Pre-Columbian Latin America Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA 357) Fall 2013 Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture Georgetown University, Department of Art and Art History (ARTH 417) Spring 2013 Environmental History of Pre-Columbian Latin America Georgetown University (Cross-Listed): School of Foreign Service, Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA 357); Georgetown College, Department of History (HIST 354) Spring 2013 Archaeology of Settlements and Landscapes, The Catholic University of America, Department of Anthropology (ANTH 354) Fall 2009-Spring 2010 Proctor of Graduate Studies, Brown Department of Anthropology Spring 2009 Teaching Assistant, Brown University, Course Classic Maya Civilization Fall 2008 Teaching Assistant, Brown University, Course Language and Power FIELD EXPERIENCE Archaeological Site and Museum Collection Documentation, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas (5 weeks) 2011 Mapping and Excavations at El Palmar, Guatemala (3 months) Laboratory materials analysis, Antigua Guatemala (9 months) 2010 Excavations at El Palmar, Guatemala (3 months) Doyle CV 2

3 2009 Mapping and Excavations at El Palmar, Guatemala (3 months) 2008 Mapping at El Palmar, Guatemala (3 months) 2004 Ethnography and Cognitive Pilot Projects, Chiapas, Mexico (2 months) 2003 Field School, Silchester Roman Town, University of Reading, England (2 weeks) 2003 Excavations at Holmul, Guatemala (2 months) 2002 Excavations at Holmul, Guatemala (2 months) MUSEUM EXPERIENCE 2014-present Assistant Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, Metropolitan Museum of Art Post-Doctoral Associate, Intermediate Area Collection, Dumbarton Oaks Museum Consultant, Museo Nacional de Antropología y Etnografía (Guatemala), Proyecto Nacional Tikal Collection. DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY, AND MUSEUM SERVICE 2016 Comité de Selección, XXX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala Representative, Ad hoc Working Group on Forum Committee Restructuring, MMA Departmental Representative, Collections Care Group, MMA Social Sciences Representative, Brown University Graduate Council Graduate Student Liaison to Faculty Meetings, Department of Anthropology 2010 Member, University Disciplinary Committee, Brown University 2009 Chancellor, Graduate Student Council, Brown University 2008 President, Graduate Student Council, Brown University 2008 Member, Brown University Community Council 2008 Member, The Corporation of Brown University, Campus Life Committee 2008 Member, Committee on Careers, Brown University 2007 Department representative, Graduate Student Council, Brown University AFFILIATIONS Forum of Curators, Conservators, and Research Scientists, MMA (2014-present) University Seminar, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Columbia University (2014-present) Society for American Archaeology (2003-present) College Art Association (2016-present) Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University ( ) Program for Early Cultures, Brown University ( ) EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE CarryOn Communication, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. Corporate Public Relations Vanderbilt Register, Nashville, TN. Editorial Assistant, Department of Public Affairs Vanderbilt Hustler, Nashville, TN. Staff Writer. Doyle CV 3

4 PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 2016 in press Urbanism and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics. Cambridge University Press Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas. Co-authored with Joanne Pillsbury, Patricia Sarro, and Juliet Wiersema. (Chapter: Monumental Imaginings in Mesoamerican Architectural Models, pp ). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES 2017 in preparation The Wooden World of Classic Maya Artists, for the Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol in press Creation Narratives on Ancient Maya Codex-Style Ceramics in the Met s Collections, for the Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol Confederate Curio: A Wooden Carving from Tikal, Guatemala. Principal author with Stephen D. Houston. Mexicon XXXVI(5): Early Maya Geometric Planning Conventions at El Palmar, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(2): Re-Group On E-Groups : Monumentality and Early Centers in The Middle Preclassic Maya Lowlands. Latin American Antiquity 23(4): Watchful Realms: Integrating GIS Analysis and Political History in the Southern Maya Lowlands. Principal author with Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen D. Houston. Antiquity 86(333): BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS 2017 in preparation Various catalog entries. In Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles in preparation Calakmul: The Capital of the Snake Kingdom. In Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles in preparation Into the Centipede s Jaws: Sumptuous Offerings from the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza. In Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles in preparation Various catalog entries. In Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. Doyle CV 4

5 2017 in preparation Mesoamerican Relationships with Central America. Principal author with John Hoopes and David Mora-Marín. In Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC in preparation Art of the Ancient Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In Museum and World Civilization: Ancient Americas. The Shanghai Museum, Shanghai in press A Tale of Two E-Groups: El Palmar and Tikal, Petén, Guatemala. In Early Maya E-Groups, Solar Calendars, and the Role of Astronomy in the Rise of Lowland Maya Urbanism. University Press of Florida in press The Preclassic Maya of El Palmar and the Buenavista Valley. Principal author with Rony Piedrasanta. In An Inconstant Landscape: The Archaeology of El Zotz, Guatemala. S. Houston, T. Garrison, and E. Román, eds. Under contract at University of Colorado Press A Neighborly View: Water and Environmental History of the El Zotz Region. Co-authored with Timothy Beach, et al. In Tikal and Maya Ecology: Water, Landscapes, and Resilience. D. Lentz, N. Dunning, and V. Scarborough, eds. pp Cambridge University Press Las plazas preclásicas del registro del tiempo: Reconsiderando los Complejos de Conmemoración Astronómica. In XXVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala A Paleographic Approach to Political Change Using Classic Maya Day Sign Variants. In Contributions in New World Archaeology, Vol. 4, J. Źrałka, W. Koszkul, and B. Golińska, pp Jagiellonian University and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cracow El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala y las vías de la época preclásica en el límite sur de la Meseta Kárstica Central. Principal author with Stephen D. Houston, et al. In XXV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2011, B. Arroyo, L. Paiz, and H. Mejía, eds. pp Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala Catálogo de artefactos del Proyecto Nacional Tikal, depositados en la bodega del Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología de Guatemala: un legado de Juan Pedro Laporte. Co-authored with Walter Burgos Morakawa and Juan Pedro Laporte. In XXV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2011, B. Arroyo, L. Paiz, and H. Mejía, eds. pp Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala En la vista de Pa Chan: Procesos dinámicos en El Zotz, Petén y sus cercanías. Co-authored with Stephen Houston et al. In XXV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2011, B. Arroyo, L. Paiz, and H. Mejía, eds. pp Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala Al alcance de la vista de Mundo Perdido? La planificación urbana y el abandono abrupto de El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala. Principal author with Stephen D. Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, and Edwin Román. In XXIV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, B. Arroyo, L. Doyle CV 5

6 Paiz Aragón, A. Linares Palma, and A.L. Arroyave, eds. pp Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala Al Valle de Buenavista: Investigaciones recientes en el centro dinástico de El Zotz y sus cercanías. Co-authored with Stephen Houston, et al. In XXIV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, B. Arroyo, L. Paiz Aragón, A. Linares Palma, and A.L. Arroyave, eds. pp Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala La aplicación de las tecnologías nuevas en la teledetección de las Tierras Bajas Mayas. Coauthored with Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen D. Houston. In XXIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, B. Arroyo, A. Linares Palma, and L. Paiz Aragón, eds. pp Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea. Dan Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 49 Lidded vessel of a world-turtle, Cat. 13 p. 50 Lidded bowl with a water-bird, Cat. 28 p. 56 Sculpture of a pelican, Cat. 31 p. 63 Carving of a frog, Cat. 33, 34 p. 103 Lidded vessel with water-birds and Oliva shell tinklers, Cat. 32 p. 106 Tetrapod plate with a fish, Cat. 24 (with drawing) p. 108 Plate with a sea creature, Cat. 55 p. 114 Shell plaque with a lord smoking, Cat. 40 p. 130 Pectoral with an ancestor, Cat. 73 p. 242 Stela fragment with Chahk [Oxkintox Stela 12], Cat. 8 p. 245 Sculpture of Chahk, Cat. 9 p. 265 Plate with the Maize God dancing above water, Cat Al Cielo Quebrado: Investigaciones en El Zotz, Co-authored with Stephen Houston et al. In XXII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, and H. Mejía, eds. pp Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala Teledetección, patrón de asentamiento e historia en Holmul, Petén. Co-authored with Francisco Estrada-Belli, et al. In XVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, J.P. Laporte, H. Escobedo, and Barbara Arroyo, eds. pp Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala. ELECTRONIC ARTICLES, PODCASTS, AND REPORTS 2016 Do Gods Sleep? Ancient Maya Deity Houses at Copán, Honduras. Now at the Met. 20 April Decoding a Maya Rain God Sculpture from Chichen Itza. Now at the Met. 31 March Doyle CV 6

7 2016 The Woman in Wood: A Reencounter with Tikal s Queen from Temple II. Principal author with Stephen Houston. Maya Decipherment. 06 January Giving Thanks before the Pilgrims: The Art of Feasting in the Ancient Americas. Now at the Met. 25 November Unearthing Gold Masterpieces from Venado Beach, Panama. Now at the Met. 28 August Grasping the Foot of Lightning in a Maya Scepter Fragment. Now at the Met. 2 July The Blood Was Pooled, the Skulls Were Piled : Maya Star Wars and a Misconstrued Doomsdsay. Now at the Met. 29 May Olmec Babies at the Met. Now at the Met. 17 April Sacrifice, Fealty, and a Sculptor's Signature on a Maya Relief. Now at the Met. 19 March The Gilded Road: A Journey in Tweets. Now at the Met. 3 March A Mountain s Eyebrow: The Met's Earliest Ancient American Acquisition. Now at the Met. 22 December The Arts of a Mesoamerican Metropolis, Here at the Met. Now at the Met. 19 November The Drinking Cup of a Classic Maya Noble. Now at the Met. 25 September A Stone Sphere from Costa Rica. Now at the Met. 19 August Why Archaeology Matters, Podcast Panel with Rosemary Joyce and Adam T. Smith, Nov. 13, Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21 st Century Archaeology with Dr. Joseph Schuldenrein A Watery Tableau at El Mirador, Guatemala. Maya Decipherment. 09 Apr Principal author with Stephen Houston Excavaciones y Reconocimiento en el sitio El Palmar. Principal author with Rony Piedrasanta. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, informe no. 6. Temporada Doyle CV 7

8 2011 Excavaciones de la Temporada 2010 en El Palmar (Operaciones 1 y 8). Principal author with Rony Piedrasanta. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, informe no. 5. Temporada Excavaciones y Levantamiento Topográfico de la Temporada 2009 en El Palmar. Principal author with Varinia Matute Rodríguez. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, informe no. 4 Temporada Sitio El Palmar (Operación 6). Co-authored with Varinia Matute Rodríguez. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, informe no. 1: temporada de campo Programa de Mapeo y Reconocimiento (Operación 7). Co-authored with Zachary Nelson. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, informe no. 1: temporada de campo Lady Six Sky and the Definition of Ritual Space at Naranjo. Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal [Online] Vol. 1, No. 1 (10 May 2005). PRESENTATIONS INVITED LECTURES 2016 Shanghai Museum Lecture Series. Papers to be presented at the Shanghai Museum, November 10-13, Creation Narratives on Ancient Maya Codex-Style Ceramics in the Met s Collections. Paper presented at the Pre-Columbian Society of New York, April 14, The Search for Kings and Queens in Ancient Panama. Paper presented at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Feb. 16, Un mundo desaparecido: Materiales perecederos y una pieza olvidada de los mayas de la época Clásica. Paper presented at the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Nov. 13, The Rediscovery of a Wooden Carving from Tikal, Guatemala. Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, June 10, Monumental Small Things: Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Paper presented at the Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. monthly meeting, June Mexico and Central America. Presentation given at Preventing Illicit Trafficking, Protecting Cultural Heritage. Museum Support Center, Smithsonian Institution, March 13, The First Maya Collapse : The End of the Preclassic Period at El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. monthly meeting, March Doyle CV 8

9 2012 Preclassic Maya Civilization. Georgetown University. January 24, INVITED SESSIONS 2017 When is a Plate? Codex-Style Masters and the Many Faces of Chahk. Paper to be presented with Stephen Houston at the College Art Association Annual Conference, February 2017, New York, NY E-Groups and the Origins of Ancient Maya Exchange. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeological Annual Meeting, April 2016, Orlando, FL Dangling Modifiers: Reconstituting Central American Identities from Gold and Jade in North American Museum Collections. Paper presented (absentee) at the International Conference of Americanists, July 2015, San Salvador, El Salvador Preclassic Maya Territories and Boundaries. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, April 2015, San Francisco, CA Mesoamerica and Central America. Paper presented at The Art And Archaeology Of Central America And Colombia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama. January Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks: an objects based workshop, January Paper presented at The Art And Archaeology Of Central America And Colombia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama. January Hammond on Méndez and a Confederate Curio: Wooden Carvings from Tikal, Guatemala. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, April 2014, Austin, TX Beads and Beaded Necklaces; and Veraguas Zoomorphic Pendants. Papers presented at Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks Workshop at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, January 2014, Washington, DC Breath, Death, and Heirloom Jewels: Ancient Maya and Costa Rican Jades at Dumbarton Oaks. Paper presented at Jade in the Americas: History, Sources, and Techniques Workshop at the Walters Art Museum, December 12, 2013, Baltimore, MD A Tale of Two E-Groups: El Palmar and Tikal, Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the Early Maya E-Groups, Solar Calendars and the Role of Astronomy in the Rise of Lowland Urbanism II Working Group at the Santa Fe Institute, August 24-25, 2013, Santa Fe, NM Ya Pasó de Moda: El uso, abandono y decaimiento del Complejo de Tipo Grupo E en El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the XXVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2013, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Doyle CV 9

10 2013 Laguna-front Property on The Lower East Side: An Elite Preclassic Residential Platform at El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, April 2013, Honolulu, HI Middle-Late Formative Maya Ceramics: Circulation or Local Production? Paper co-authored with Ronald Bishop et al., presented by Ronald Bishop at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, April 2013, Honolulu, HI Communities with a View and Milpa Plazas: Early E-Groups in the Central Petén. Paper presented at the Early Maya E-Groups, Solar Calendars and the Role of Astronomy in the Rise of Lowland Urbanism Working Group at the Santa Fe Institute, August 25-26, 2012, Santa Fe, NM El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala y las vías de la época preclásica en el límite sur de la Meseta Kárstica Central. Paper presented at the XXV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas de Guatemala, 2011, Guatemala City, Guatemala. SUBMITTED 2015 De una capital a otra: una pieza de Tikal en el Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Instituto Smithsoniano. Paper presented at the XXIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2015, Guatemala City, Guatemala Las plazas preclásicas del registro del tiempo: Reconsiderando los Complejos de Conmemoración Astronómica. Paper presented at the XXVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2012, Guatemala City, Guatemala The Preclassic Maya, Sui Generis: New Evidence from the Buenavista Valley. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, April 2012, Memphis, TN Catálogo de artefactos del Proyecto Nacional Tikal, depositados en la bodega del Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología de Guatemala: un legado de Juan Pedro Laporte. Paper presented at the XXV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2011, Guatemala City, Guatemala Regroup on E-Groups : Middle Preclassic Monumentality, Political Structure, and Socioterritorial Organization in the Maya Lowlands. Paper presented at the 15th European Maya Conference, December 2010, Madrid, Spain Al Alcance de la Vista de Mundo Perdido? La Planificación Urbana y el Abandono Abrupto de El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the XXIV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala A Paleographic Approach to Political Change Using Classic Maya Day Sign Variants. Paper presented at the 14th European Maya Conference, November 2009, Cracow, Poland. Doyle CV 10

11 2008 Riding in Style: Palanquins as Vehicles in Classic Maya Ritual Procession. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, March 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada Ethnobotany de Zinacantan: explorando diferencias sociales. Co-authored with Norbert Ross. Paper presented at the Sexto Congreso Internacional de Mayistas July 2004, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico Radical Transitions in Late and Terminal Classic Group III, Holmul, Guatemala. Coauthored with Chris Hewitson and Judith Valle. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting April 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION 2015 Co-organizer, The Art And Archaeology Of Central America And Colombia, Workshop, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama 2014 Co-organizer, Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Workshop, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC 2011 Co-organizer, BIG: Monumentality and Meaning in the Ancient World, Program for Early Cultures, Brown University, Providence, RI 2008 Chair of Symposium Studies of Symbolism, Ritual, and Art in Mesoamerica, Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC Canada Doyle CV 11