Chelsea Fisher C.V. September 2018

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1 Chelsea Fisher Curriculum Vitae September 2018 University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Museum of Anthropological Archaeology 1109 Geddes Avenue. Ann Arbor, MI Phone: (734) EDUCATION Expected Jan Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan Dissertation title: Small-scale Maya Farming Communities and the Long View of Sustainability at Tzacauil 2014 M.A., Anthropology, University of Michigan 2011 B.A., Archaeology, College of Wooster RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Theory: Topics: Methods: Regions: Potential Courses: Historical ecology, political ecology, landscape archaeology Agroecology, sustainability, human-environment interactions, food systems, public archaeology, science communication, Maya Archaeological survey and excavation, soil chemistry analysis, ceramic residue analysis, LiDAR-based approaches, ethnography, archival research Latin America, North America Anthropological Archaeology and Sustainable Agriculture Environmental Anthropology Archaeology of Foodways Deep History of the American Food System Introduction to Anthropology Archaeological Method and Theory Aztec, Maya, Inca Civilizations PUBLICATIONS 2018 Fisher, C. Towards a dialogue of sustainable agriculture and end-times theology in the United States: Insights from the historical ecology of nineteenth century millennial communes. Agriculture and Human Values (published online July 2018) Fisher, C. The role of infield agriculture in Maya cities. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 36:

2 2013 Fauvelle, M., C.R. Fisher, and G.E. Braswell. Return to the Kingdom of the Eagle: Archaeological investigations at Nim li Punit, Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 10: GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS EXTERNAL SUPPORT 2016 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award, BCS , Households and Community Arrangement in a Traditional Society The Wenner-Gren Foundation, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Early Maya Land-Use Practices and the Creation of Community at Tzacauil, Yucatan, Mexico U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Program, Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, No. P022A160004, Households and Land-Use Practices of the Maya National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship, Core- Periphery Relationships in Mesoamerica. INTERNAL SUPPORT 2018 Titiev Fellowship, University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michigan Rackham International Research Award, University of Michigan, The Origins of Sustainable Agrarian Cities in Ancient Mexico James B. Griffin Scholarship, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michigan Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, University of Michigan Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan Copeland Funding for Independent Study, College of Wooster Kendall-Rives Latin American Research Grant, College of Wooster. AWARDS AND HONORS 2017 Rackham Graduate School Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. 2

3 2016 University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Aztec, Maya, Inca Civilizations University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Aztec, Maya, Inca Civilizations University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Aztec, Maya, Inca Civilizations The College of Wooster Campus Council Leadership Award Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honor Society. PRESENTATIONS 2018 Three Walks Through Tzacauil: Engaging the Rural Landscape of Central Yucatán 2000 Years Ago, 1000 Years Ago, and Today. Paper presented in the session Reconceptualizing Rurality: Current Research in the Ancient Maya Hinterlands at the 83 rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C Vegetative Agency and Social Memory in Houselots of Ancient Cobá. Paper in the session Things with a Mind of Their Own: Agentive Approaches to Non- Human Agency at the 83 rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C. (Harper Dine, Traci Ardren, and Chelsea Fisher) Integrating and Disintegrating in Central Yucatán: Archaeological Approaches to Social Change at Multiple Scales. Session presented at the 82 nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (co-chair with Ryan Collins) Integrating Generations on the Formative Maya Landscape: Households and Communities at Tzacauil. Paper presented in the session Integrating and Disintegrating in Central Yucatán: Archaeological Approaches to Social Change at Multiple Scales at the 82 nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Landscape and Formative Households at Tzacauil and Yaxuná, Yucatán. Paper presented at the 81 st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida Sacbes, Cenotes, and the Permanence of Movement in Tzacauil, Yucatán. Paper presented at the University of Michigan Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan Water and the Formative Homesteaders of Central Yucatán. Brown Bag Lecture Series, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. 3

4 2015 Water Management and City Founding at Yaxuná, Yucatán. Poster presented at the 80 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California The Poorness of the Soil Takes Away Hope : Resolving Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Evidence for Food Security in the Northern Maya Lowlands. Paper presented at the 79 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas Garden Cities of the Northern Maya Lowlands. Four Field Graduate Talks, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan The Formative Maya Downtown: Excavations at Yaxuná, Yucatán. Brown Bag Lecture Series, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Unruining Ruins: Consolidation of Archaeological Sites. Four Field Graduate Talks, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan Return to the Kingdom of the Eagle: Archaeological Investigations at Nim li Punit, Belize. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology & Anthropology Symposium: Time and the Maya, San Ignacio Cayo, Belize (second author with Mikael Fauvelle and Geoffrey E. Braswell) Ancestor Worship at Nim li Punit, Belize: Implications for Regional Interaction. Brown Bag Lecture Series, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Discordance as Data: Calling the Bluff on Mesoamerican Texts. Paper presented at the University of Michigan Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup Conference: Theories of the Past, Ann Arbor, Michigan (first author with Lacey Carpenter) Portrait Stelae and Competition at Two Classic Maya Sites. Brown Bag Lecture Series, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology A Survey of Regional Studies of Classic Maya Sites in the Toledo District, Belize. Impacts of Research in a Diverse Society Research Symposium, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan Landscapes of Ambition: Understanding Classic Maya Ceremonial Centers as Political History. Poster presented at the 76 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California Resorting to the Resort: A Museum s Relationship With the Archaeology of Roatán Island, Honduras. Poster presented in the session The Use, Abuse, and Lack of Archaeology in Heritage Tourism and Development in the Bay Islands of Honduras at the 75 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Saint Louis, Missouri. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2018 Engaged Pedagogy Initiative Fellow, University of Michigan. 4

5 2018 Instructor. Cities Growing Food: The Archaeology of Urban Agriculture and Sustainability. University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Instructor. Aztec, Maya, and Inca Civilizations. University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Instructor. Aztec, Maya, and Inca Civilizations. University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Instructor. Aztec, Maya, and Inca Civilizations. University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Instructor. Aztec, Maya, and Inca Civilizations. University of Michigan Department of Anthropology. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE Field director, Doctoral fieldwork at Tzacauil, Yucatán, Mexico Field archaeologist, Proyecto de Interacción Política del Centro de Yucatán, Yaxuná, Yucatán, Mexico (directed by Dr. Travis Stanton, University of California Riverside, and Dr. Aline Magnoni, Tulane University) Field archaeologist, Investigating Household Variability at El Mogote, Oaxaca, Mexico (directed by Lacey Carpenter, University of Michigan) Field archaeologist, Pecica Santul Mare, Romania (directed by Dr. John O Shea and Dr. Amy Nicodemus, University of Michigan) Field archaeologist, Proyecto de Interacción Política del Centro de Yucatán, Yaxuná, Yucatán, Mexico (directed by Dr. Travis Stanton, University of California Riverside, and Dr. Aline Magnoni, Tulane University) Field archaeologist, Proyecto de Interacción Política del Centro de Yucatán, Yaxuná, Yucatán, Mexico (directed by Dr. Travis Stanton, University of California Riverside, and Dr. Aline Magnoni, Tulane University) Field archaeologist, Investigations at the Gault Site, Central Texas (directed by Ashley Lemke, University of Michigan) Field archaeologist, Toledo Regional Interaction Project, Nim li Punit, Belize (directed by Dr. Geoffrey Braswell, University of California San Diego) Field archaeologist, San Martín Tilcajete Project, Oaxaca, Mexico (directed by Dr. Charles Spencer and Dr. Elsa Redmond, American Museum of Natural History) Field archaeologist, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument Archaeological Field School, Arizona (directed by Michael O Hara, Arizona State University). 5

6 2009 Field school Student, Project Roatán Mesoamerican Archaeology Field School, Roatán Island, Honduras (directed by Dr. E. Christian Wells, University of South Florida). SELECTED LABORATORY AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2017 Soil chemistry and ceramic residue analyses of samples from Tzacauil, Yucatán, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (with Mario Zimmermann, Washington State University) Laboratory assistant, Early State Development at San Martín Tilcajete Project, Oaxaca, Mexico Research assistant, College of Wooster Archaeology Laboratory Research assistant, Arch2 Cultural Resource Management and The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, Metuchen, New Jersey Research assistant, College of Wooster English Department. TECHNICAL REPORTS 2017 Editor, Proyecto de Interacción Política del Centro de Yucatán (PIPCY): Informe Técnico de la Octava Temporada (2016). Prepared for the Consejo de Arqueología del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico Investigaciones Sobre Vida Doméstica y Comunidad Durante el Formativo en Tzacauil. Proyecto de Interacción Política del Centro de Yucatán (PIPCY): Informe Técnico de la Octava Temporada (2016). Prepared for the Consejo de Arqueología del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. Edited by Chelsea Fisher Arqueología Doméstica en Tzacauil y Yaxuná. Proyecto de Interacción Política del Centro de Yucatán (PIPCY): Informe Técnico de la Séptima Temporada (2015). Prepared for the Consejo de Arqueología del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. Edited by Dr. Travis Stanton, University of California Riverside Capítulo 2: Mapeo y Recolección de Superficie en Yaxuná. In Proyecto de Interacción Política del Centro de Yucatán (PIPCY): Informe Técnico de la Sexta Temporada (2014). Prepared for the Consejo de Arqueología del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, pp Edited by Dr. Travis Stanton, University of California Riverside and Dr. Aline Magnoni, Tulane University Excavations of Structure 7, South Group, Nim li Punit. In Toledo Regional Interaction Project Annual Report, University of California San Diego Mesoamerican Archaeology Laboratory Occasional Paper No. 6. Prepared for the Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belize, pp Edited by Dr. Geoffrey Braswell, University of California San Diego. 6

7 DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Reviewer for Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Assistant Chair, University of Michigan Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup Co-Organizer, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Brown Bag Series Secretary, University of Michigan Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup President, College of Wooster Archaeology Student Colloquium. PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT 2016 Urban Growers Boot Camp, Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture, Atlanta, Georgia Science Communication Fellow, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History Public outreach ( What happened in ancient backyards? ) at Time Discovery Day, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History Science Communications Fellows Workshop ( Prototyping Activities ), University of Michigan Museum of Natural History Science Communications Fellows Workshop ( How People Learn ), University of Michigan Museum of Natural History Volunteer, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History World History Through Archaeology Day Investigación de las Viviendas Antiguas en Yaxuná. Public talk given in Yaxunah, Yucatán The Relative Importance of Infield vs. Outfield Agriculture in Ancient Maya Cities. Meeting of the Michigan Archaeology Society, Huron Valley Chapter Volunteer, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History World History Through Archaeology Day Volunteer, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History Behind the Scenes Day. LANGUAGES English native Spanish excellent (speaking, reading, writing) 7

8 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Society for American Archaeology American Anthropological Association Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society REFERENCES Joyce Marcus University of Michigan 1109 Geddes Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan Phone: (734) Kent Flannery University of Michigan 1109 Geddes Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan Phone: (734) E. Christian Wells University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave., SOC 385 Tampa, Florida Phone: (813) Traci Ardren University of Miami P.O. Box Coral Gables, Florida Phone: (305) Robin A. Beck University of Michigan 1109 Geddes Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan Phone: (734)