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Gerardo Aldana, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Gerardo Aldana, Ph.D.  
B.S.: University of California, Berkeley
M.S.: University of California, Irvine
A.M.: Harvard University
Ph.D.: Harvard University
   
Email: gvaldana@chicst.ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893-5713
Room: 1710 South Hall
   

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Maya hieroglyphic history
  • Mesoamerican art
  • Experimental archaeology
  • Science studies
  • Culture theory
  • Indigeneity
     

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

2007   The Apotheosis of Janaab’ Pakal:  Science, History, and Religion at Classic Maya Palenque.  University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
 
2006 “Vowel Disharmony, Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing, and Indigenous  Education” In  the Proceedings of WAIL, Department of Linguistics, UCSB.
 
2005 “Agency and the ‘Star War’ Glyph: an Historical Reassessment of Classic Maya Astrology and Warfare,” In Ancient Mesoamerica, 16:2.

 

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