Summary

Christopher von Nagy is interested w88 mobile multi-faceted public communication of the humanities, the ways in which humanities research is and can be interpreted to diverse audiences and how various communities use and understand sites, monuments and stories. He is a practicing anthropological archaeologist and public historian. He works with students and communities to develop, represent and collaboratively interpret the oral and documentary historical record - written and material. In addition, he co-directs a bi-national research project in Guerrero, Mexico, where he and his colleagues focus on the Olmec-period site of Quioptepec-Oxotitlán (Oxtotitlán Cave). There, they work in conjunction with the local Nahuatl-speaking community - in particular, the community's committee for archaeology - to understand the region's role w88 mobile development of early Mesoamerican civilization. Von Nagy's research includes the high precision documentation and contextualization of some of Mexico's oldest public art using multispectral and computational techniques, close range UAV survey and GIS, computational analysis and 3D visualization of data and traditional ethnohistoric and archaeological methodologies. Simultaneously, he is interested w88 mobile role the art and site play w88 mobile lives of the various groups who visit, study, worship and perform there.

Through his career, von Nagy has undertaken archaeological and historical research elsewhere in Mesoamerica: the Mexican states of Tabasco, Zacatecas, Yucatán and in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala, as well in the United States. Related to his interest in environmental archaeology and the computational analysis of large datasets, he has participated in global climate research applying skills in database management and data visualization. Von Nagy has taught at both university and secondary levels and has a particular interest in place-based and experiential learning. He has also worked in curatorial roles in museum environments. He served as chair of the w88 mobile department of Sage Ridge School and is a trained Montessori educator. Von Nagy received an A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley with a focus on environmental archaeology and a Ph.D. from Tulane University in New Orleans, specializing in the anthropology and archaeology of Ancient Middle America.

w88 mobile Interests

• Public w88 mobile, public archaeology and the public communication of science and humanities research
• The digital humanities
• The ethnohistory and w88 mobile of the Americas, particular of Mesoamerica
• The origins and nature w88 mobile city

Class Materials

• HIST/w88 mobile 309 Museum Studies
• HIST 344/703 Andean Ethnohistory
• HIST 399 w88 mobile Department Practicum
• HIST 498 The Maya World (Maya w88 mobile and Epigraphy)
• HIST 705 Maya Epigraphy readings course
• ANTH 201 Peoples and Cultures w88 mobile World
• ANTH 202 w88 mobile
• ANTH 425/FLL 304 Native Central and Andean America w88 mobile Post-Conquest Period and Literature About Indigenous People of Central and South America (co-taught double course)
• ANTH 440D/640 w88 mobile New World Civilizations
• ANTH 701 Nahua religion w88 mobile Late Postclassic and Colonial Periods
• w88 mobile Practicum on close range, autonomous (drone) remote-sensing
• RST 101 Introduction to Religious Studies

Publications

• 2017 "Strategies for 14C Dating the Oxtotitlan Cave Paintings, Guerrero, Mexico,"Advances in Archaeological Practice5.2 (2017): 170-183. Co-Author with J. Russ, M. Pohl, H. Hurst, L. Ashby, and M. Rowe.
• 2016 "Olmec," "Olmec and Maya Interaction." InEncyclopedia w88 mobile Ancient Maya. Ed. Walter R. T. Witschey. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 250-254.
• 2014 "El sacrificio en la unidad política de La Venta, w88 mobile."w88 mobile: una visión antropológica e histórica. Ed. Miguel Ángel Rubio Jiménez and Rebeca Perales. Villahermosa, w88 mobile, Mexico: Gobierno del Estado de w88 mobile. Instituto Estatal de Cultura de w88 mobile, 2014. 85-155. Co-author with Mary D. Pohl, Maria Tway, Shannon Weatherby, Lori Collins, and Travis Doering.
• 2013 "Physicochemical Study of Black Pigments in Prehistoric Paints from Oxtotitlán Cave, Guerrero, Mexico" Co-author with Joseph McPeak, Mary Pohl, Heather Hurst, Marvin Rowe, Eliseo Padilla Gutiérrez, and Jon Russ. InArchaeological Chemistry. Edited by R.A. Armitage. Washington D.C.: American Chemical Society Books.

Education

• Ph.D., Anthropology, Tulane w88 mobile, 2003
• A.B., w88 mobile, Berkeley