CHRISTINE LEE HERNÁNDEZ E-mail: chernand@tulane.edu EDUCATION University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Urbana, Illinois Phi Beta Kappa and departmental honors in Anthropology and Spanish. A.B. received in May of 1988. Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana M.A. received in May of 1991. Ph.D. received in May of 2000. Dissertation title: A History of Ceramics, Interaction, and Frontier Development in the Ucareo- Zinapécuaro Obsidian Source Area, Michoacán, Mexico Committee: Dr. Dan M. Healan, Dr. E. Wyllys Andrews V, and Dr. Tristram R. Kidder Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Archaeological Field School completed in Summer of 1993 Director: Dr. Barbara J. Mills PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Curator of Special Collections, the Latin American Library, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2012 - present). Responsible for the organization, cataloging, preservation, and access to the LAL s rare books, manuscripts, photograph, and ephemeral materials. Duties include coordinating digitization projects and assisting with collection development, reference duties, and long-term planning for preservation and access to the collections. Grant writer and Event coordinator, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2010-2012). Part-time position dedicated to writing grants for collections management, database management, digitizing projects, and organization of the Tulane Maya Symposium. Catalogue specialist, the Latin American Library of the Howard Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2008-2009, 2012). Responsible for producing a detailed inventory and electronic collection guide, grant writing, and re-house an extensive collection of rubbings, drawings, photographs, and documentation of Maya stelae and sculpture comprising the Merle Greene Robertson collection in possession of the Latin American Library. Co-Principal investigator, Mesoamerican Codices Database Project, New Orleans, LA (2004-2008). Responsible for the development and expansion of an on-line database of the extant Maya codices, codex analysis, writing a commentary of the Madrid Codex, and public outreach. Project manager, Earth Search, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana (2003-2004). Responsible for conducting Phase 1 survey and excavation, laboratory analysis, database management, report generation, and public outreach.
Hernandez 2 Research associate, the Middle American Research Institute, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2001 - present). Research associate, Maya Madrid Codex Project, Florida Institute for Hieroglyphic Research, Palmetto, FL (2001-2003). Gabrielle Vail, Director. Responsible for coding calendrical information, codex analysis, and bibliographic research. TEACHING POSITIONS Lecturer in Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana Undergraduate, graduate, and summer courses taught: Anth 405/505 Indigenous People of the Americas (2006 - present) Anth 403 Archaeological Studies: Method and Practice (2008 - present) Anth 301 Exploring Archaeology (2009 - present) Anth 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (2006 - present) On-line course: Anth 101NT Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (2007 - present) Workshop instructor at the Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshops, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Teacher s workshop demonstrating the use of the on-line Mesoamerican Codices database (2006; 2007; 2010) Instructor in Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Undergraduate course taught: Anth 101 Human Origins (1996); Anth 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (1998) Instructor in Department of Anthropology, Tulane University College, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Summer course taught: Anth 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (1995); Anth 101 Human Origins (1996) FIELD RESEARCH Excavation and ceramic analysis, Tulane Ucareo-Zinapécuaro Project, Zinapécuaro, Michoacán, México (1990) Ceramic analysis, Feasibility Study for the Analysis of Prehispanic Ceramics of Zinapécuaro, Michoacán, México (1991) Ceramic analysis, The Prehispanic Ceramics of the Zinapécuaro, Michoacán Area as Indicators of Interregional Interaction (1991-1996) Laboratory analysis and Phase 1 excavation, Earth Search Inc. (1994) Survey and ceramic analysis, Bandelier Archaeological Survey, New Mexico (1995) On-line database construction and codex analysis, Maya Madrid Codex Project (2001-2003) Mapping and excavation, Cliff Paintings and Monumental Architecture of Paranguaricutiro, Michoacán, México Project (2002)
Hernandez 3 Phase 1 survey and test excavation at historic and prehistoric sites in SE Louisiana and Mississippi, Earth Search, Inc. (2004) On-line database construction and codex analysis, Mesoamerican Codices Database Project (2004-2010) Radiocarbon dating of samples, Ucareo-Zinapécuaro Project (with Dan M. Healan) (2006-2009) Feasibility study, El Bajío Ceramic Traditions, Coyotlatelco Ceramics, and the Origins of the Postclassic Toltec State at Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico (2010 present) RESEARCH SUPPORT 1989 Mellon Summer Grant ($400) 1993 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, ($5,814) 1998 Mesoamerican Ethnohistory Research Fund, Department of Anthropology at Tulane University, The Fortunes for Planting Maize in the Codex Borgia ($136) 2004-2007 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, RZ-50311-04 Mesoamerican Codices Database Project ($124,848) ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Books and edited volumes 2002 (with Gabrielle Vail) Resource Guide to the Madrid Codex: The Calendrics, Iconography, and Hieroglyphic Texts. Ms. on file at Florida Institute for Hieroglyphic Research, Palmetto, FL. 2006 (with Gabrielle Vail) A Commentary on the Madrid Codex. Ms. in preparation. 2010 (co-edited with Gabrielle Vail) Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C. 2013 (with Gabrielle Vail) Re-Creating Primordial Time: Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices. In press with the University Press of Colorado, Boulder. Articles and Book Chapters 1999 (with Dan M. Healan) Asentamiento Prehispánico y Cronología Cerámica en el Noreste de Michoacán. In Arqueología y Etnohistoria: La Región del Lerma, edited by Eduardo Williams and Phil C. Weigand, pp. 133-155. El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán. 2000 (with Cassandra Bill and Victoria B. Bricker) The Relationship between Early Colonial Maya New Year s Ceremonies and Some Almanacs in the Madrid Codex. Ancient Mesoamerica 11(1):149-168. 2001 Una Comparación entre la Fase Perales en el Noreste de Michoacán y la Fase Lerma en Acámbaro, Guanajuato. Arqueología 25:23-45. 2004 Yearbearer Pages and their Connection to Planting Almanacs in the Borgia Codex. In The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript, edited by Gabrielle Vail and A. Aveni, pp. 321-366. University of Colorado Press, Boulder, Colorado.
Hernandez 4 2004 (with V. Bricker) The Inauguration of Planting in the Borgia and Madrid Codices. In The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript, edited by Gabrielle Vail and A. Aveni, pp. 277-320. University of Colorado Press, Boulder, Colorado. 2004 (with Gabrielle Vail, Anthony Aveni, Harvey Bricker, Victoria R. Bricker, John Chuchiak, Bryan Just, Martha Macri, and Merideth Paxton) New Perspectives on the Madrid Codex. Current Anthropology 44 (Supplement):S105-S112. 2005 Utilizando las imágenes referentes a Venus para fechar los almanaques en los códices Madrid y Borgia. In Memorias del II Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya, edited by Alfredo Barrera Rubio and Ruth Gubler. Mérida, Mexico. In press. 2006 The Fortunes for Planting Maize in the Codex Borgia. Ancient America 8:1-35. 2006 Using Astronomical Imagery to Cross-date an Almanac in the Borgia Codex. Human Mosaic, 36(1):125-144. 2006 La Cerámica del Noreste de Michoacán, México. In La Producción Alfarera en el México Antiguo, vol. 2, by the Dirección de Investigación y Conservación del Patrimonio Arqueológico (DICPA) del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. 2006 (with Gabrielle Vail) Fire Drilling, Bloodletting, and Sacrifice: Yearbearer Rituals in the Maya and Borgia Group Codices. In Sacred Books, Sacred Languages: Two Thousand Years of Ritual and Religious Maya Literature. 8th European Maya Conference, Museo de América, Madrid, November 2003, edited by Rogelio Valencia and Genevieve Le Fort, pp. 35-49. Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt Schwaben, Germany. 2007 (with Gabrielle Vail) Human Sacrifice in Late Postclassic Maya Iconography and Texts. In New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Post-sacrificial Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society, edited by Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler. Springer, New York. 2008 (with Dan M. Healan) The Role of Late Pre-Contact Ethnic Enclaves in the Development of the Eastern Tarascan Frontier. Ancient Mesoamerica 19:265-282. 2009 Cords and Crocodilians: Creation Mythology in Late Postclassic Maya Iconography and Texts. In The Maya and Their Sacred Narratives: Text and Context in Maya Mythologies, edited by Geneviève Le Fort et al, pp. 89-108. Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt Schwaben, Germany. 2009 (with Gabrielle Vail) The Role of Caves and Cenotes in Late Postclassic Maya Ritual and Worldview. In Acta Americana, vol. 1, a special issued devoted to the papers presented in a session of the LIII International Congress of Americanists entitled, Ritualidad y cosmovisión mesoamericana: persistencia y adaptación del marco ritual en diferentes áreas culturales a través de los siglos. In press. 2010 (with Gabrielle Vail) A Case for Scribal Interaction: Evidence from the Madrid and Borgia Group Codices. In Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period, pp. 333-366. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. 2010 (with Anthony P. Andrews) Introduction to Part I: Archaeological Evidence. In Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period, pp. 22-55. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. 2011 (with Gabrielle Vail) The Construction of Memory: The Use of Late Classic Divinatory Texts in the Late Postclassic Maya Codices. Ancient Mesoamerica 22(2):449-462. 2012 (with Gabrielle Vail) Chapter 12: Rain and Fertility Rituals in Postclassic Yucatán Featuring Chaak and Chak Chel. In The Ancient Maya of Mexico: Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands, edited by Geoffrey Braswell, pp. 285-305. Equinox Publishing, London.
Hernandez 5 n.d. (with Dan M. Healan) Migration and the Coyotlatelco Ceramic Tradition: Evidence from the El Bajío. In Migrations in Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerica, edited by Christopher Beekman and William Fowler. University of Colorado Press, Boulder. In press. n.d. Ceramic Evidence of Teotihuacan Contact Linking the Basin of Mexico, the El Bajío, and Southern Hidalgo. In Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico, edited by Eduardo Williams and Blanca Maldonado. British Archaeological Reports International Series, Oxford, UK. In press. n.d. Settling the Ucareo Valley: Early Classic Relationships Between Northeastern Michoacán, Mexico and the Eastern El Bajío. In City, Craft, and Residence in Mesoamerica: Research papers in honor of Dan M. Healan, edited by Ronald K. Faulseit, Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecuhtli, and Haley Holt Mehta. The Middle American Research Institute, New Orleans, LA. In press. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Editorial activities Production editor, Human Mosaic, 36(1), Special Issue, The Bricker Almanac (2005-2006) Curated exhibitions Co-curator with David Dressing, Maya Time Reckoning and the Language of Creation: Views from the Merle Greene Robertson Collection. An exhibition sponsored by the Latin American Library of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2009) Co-curator with David Dressing and Gabrielle Vail, Sacred Cenotes, Hidden Caverns: Fifty Years of Research in the Maya Area. An exhibition sponsored by the Latin American Library of the Howard- Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2008) Archival management Catalogue specialist with David Dressing (2008-2009), catalogued the Merle Greene Robertson collection in possession of the Latin American Library of the Howard Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, wrote and submitted a grant to the IMLS to create a digital image archive based on collection materials, and created an electronic guide to the collection. Grants written and submitted The Prehispanic Ceramics of the Zinapécuaro, Michoacán Area as Indicators of Interregional Interaction, dissertation improvement grant, National Science Foundation (1992) Prehispanic Settlement in the Eastern Lake Cuitzeo Basin, Michoacán, Mexico, individual research, H. John Heinz III Fund and the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2001) Mesoamerican Codices Database: An On-Line Tool for Researching the Maya Codices, collaborative research, National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation (2002) The Ancient Maya Sculptural Art: The Digital Archive of the Merle Greene Robertson Collection at Tulane University s Latin American Library, digitizing project, Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (2009)
Hernandez 6 The Pepper Unification Project: A Digital Collection of George Hubbard Pepper's Native American Research Materials, digitizing project, National Archives (2010) MARI Archive Re-housing and Storage Project, collections management project, National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation (2010) Bajío Ceramic Traditions, Coyotlatelco Ceramics, and the Origins of the Toltec State, summer writing stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities (2010, resubmitted 2011) Scribal Process in Ancient Mesoamerica: Terminal Classic to Postclassic Painting Tradition from Puebla-Tlaxcala and the Northern Maya Lowlands, collaborative research, National Endowment for the Humanities (2010, resubmitted 2011) An Investigation of Classic Period El Bajío Ceramic Traditions, Coyotlatelco Ceramics, and the Origins of the Postclassic Toltec State in Hidalgo, Mexico, writing stipend, American Philosophical Society (2011) A Pilot Project to Digitize Cuban-American Radionovelas in the Louis J. Boeri and Minín Bujones Collection, proposal for funding submitted to the Digital Initiatives Working Group of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) (2015) Symposia organized Organizing committee, Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshops, New Orleans, Louisiana (2004 2009, 2012) Co-organizer with Gabrielle Vail and presenter, Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period. Dumbarton Oaks Conference Series in Pre-Columbian Studies, Washington D.C. (2006) Co-organizer with Gabrielle Vail of the working group, Maya-Highland Mexican Interaction during the Late Postclassic Period. Annual Conference for the Society of American Archaeologists, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2006) Co-organizer with Gabrielle Vail of the symposium, Religión e Ideología en Mesoamérica del Período Posclásico Tardío. II Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya, Mérida, México (2005) Co-organizer with Tricia Gabany-Guerrero of the symposium, Revising Tarascan Studies: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Challenges for Late Postclassic and Early Colonial Research. 100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. (2001) Invited papers 2014 Evidencias cerámicas entre la Cuenca de México, El sur de Hidalgo, y el Bajío. Presented at the Simposio sobre dinámicas culturales y actividades de producción en el occidente de México, Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Mexico. 2014 Buscando historias, investigando la historia en las colecciones especiales de la Biblioteca Latinoamericana de la Universidad de Tulane. Talk delivered to incoming class of graduate students to the History program at the Colegio de Michoacán in Zamora, Mexico. 2014 (with Dan M. Healan) Asentamiento prehispánico y cronología cerámica del sureste de El Bajío y sus implicaciones para interacción cultural con el México Central. Presented at the XXX Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología conference in Querétaro, Mexico. 2011 Una pista de investigación de los raíces de la decoración rojo sobre café estilo Coyotlatelco. Primer Coloquio de Tecnología Cerámica, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
Hernandez 7 2007 Una perspectiva del periférico: la cerámica del periodo epiclásico en el noreste de Michoacán. Presented at the Mesa Redonda: La Cerámica del Bajío y Regiones Aledañas en el Epiclásico, Mexico City, Mexico. 2006 (with Gabrielle Vail) A Case for Scribal Interaction: Evidence from the Maya Madrid Codex. Presented at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference Series in Pre-Columbian Studies, Washington D.C. 2006 (with Dan M. Healan) The Role of Late Pre-Contact Ethnic Enclaves in the Development of the Eastern Tarascan Frontier. Presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2005 Utilizando las imágenes referentes a Venus para fechar los almanaques en los códices Madrid y Borgia. Presented at the symposium, Religión e Ideología en Mesoamérica del Período Posclásico Tardío. II Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya, Mérida, México. 2003 (with Gabrielle Vail) Fire Drilling, Bloodletting, and Sacrifice: Yearbearer Rituals in the Maya and Borgia Group Codices. Presented at the 8th Annual European Maya Conference, Madrid, Spain. 2001 Una Historia de Vínculos Económicos para el Noreste de Michoacán. Presented at the XXVI Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, México. 2000 (with Dan M. Healan) The Toltec World as seen from Northeast Michoacán. Presented at the 65 th Annual Conference for the Society of American Archaeologists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Professional Memberships Society for American Archaeology Register of Professional Archaeologists Society for American Archivists Seminar for the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials