CASAA Faculty and Affiliates
Texas State faculty and graduate students in any department are invited to become CASAA affiliates. Undergraduate students conducting specific research projects are invited to affiliate for the duration of the project. Upon graduation or at the end of the project, student affiliates become CASAA alumni.
Affiliates and alumni receive email news and updates from CASAA, including invitations to CASAA events and announcements about new CASAA publications. Current affiliates also have key access to the CASAA Reading Room. Located in ELA 271, the Reading Room contains a library of works on the archaeology, art, epigraphy, and iconography of native North American, Mesoamerican, Central American, and South American cultures from ancient times to the present. A powerful desktop computer and a Wacom drafting tablet are available to affiliates who wish to use them for digital illustration, imaging, and other computation-intensive tasks.
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Antonio BeardallBeardallAntonioDoctoral Student
Email: qbx3@txstate.edu
Research Interests:
My research interests include public archaeology, archaeological education, community outreach, and cultural heritage management. -
Carolyn BoydBoydCarolynFaculty Affiliate
Email: cb55@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 255
Phone: 512.245.0727Research Interests:
Prehistoric art, iconographic analysis, hunter-gatherer archaeology, applied anthropology, Native American myth, ritual, cosmovision, and iconography -
Michael BuleyBuleyMichaelMA Student
Email: mlb375@txstate.edu
Research Interests:
My research concerns Mesoamerican (principally Mayan) Iconography and Epigraphy. -
Nick CarterCarterNickDirector, CASAA
Email: npcarter@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 258
Phone: 512.245.5680Research interests:
Maya archaeology and epigraphy; international heritage management; artifact imaging; ceramic analysis; polity formation and collapse. -
Christina ConleeConleeChristinaFaculty Affiliate
Email: cconlee@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 266
Phone: 512.245.8272Research Interests:
Dynamics of complex societies, causes and consequences of collapse, early empires and colonialism, foundations and relations of power, population movements, cultural boundaries, Andean archaeology, archaeology of north-central Oregon, ceramic analysis, stable isotope analysis
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Kaylee HendersonHendersonKayleeMA Student
Email: kah284@txstate.edu
Research Interests:
I am interested in iconography, particularly ceramic iconography. The area of research for my thesis is Nasca on the southern coast of Peru. I am interested in the ways ceramic iconography reinforces the cultural behaviors seen through other artifacts and contexts in the region.Another area of interest are the ways that iconography reinforces gender roles and performance.
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Theodore B. KmiecKmiecTheodore B.Doctoral Student
Email: tbk7@txstate.edu
Research Interests:
My research focuses on Olmec iconography and general Mesoamerican archaeology. Additionally, I am interested in the belief systems and social structures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. -
Jacob LozanoLozanoJacobDoctoral Student
Email: jdl210@txstate.edu
Research Interests:
My research focuses on Maya ceramics, iconography, and epigraphy. -
Jon McGeeMcGeeJonFaculty Affiliate
Email: rm08@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.245.2474Research Interests:
Maya, anthropology of religion, culture, theory, and field research methods
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Kent ReillyReillyKentDirector Emeritus
Email: fr04@txstate.edu
Research Interests:
Mayan and Southeastern ideological systems and epigraphy -
Paul SchottmuellerSchottmuellerPaulDoctoral Student
Email: onq3@txstate.edu
Research Interests:
I am dedicated to the Lacandon Maya, investigating their past and supporting their future. -
Thomas Sullivan-AmayaSullivan-Amaya ThomasMA Student
Email: trs152@txstate.edu
Research Interests:
My primary focus is on art’s reciprocal relation to ritual and religion of the Natives of the Americas pre and post European contact. -
Aimee VillarrealVillarrealAimeeFaculty Affiliate
Email: aimeevillarreal@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 271B
Phone: 512.245.7862Research Interests:
Social movements in the US-Mexico borderlands; immigration and asylum; religion and transnationalism; Chicanx spiritual politics and performance; comparative ethnic studies.