Eulogio Guzmán

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Faculty Profile

Degrees: Ph.D.  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 2004; M.A. Latin American Studies, UCLA, 1994; B.Arch. Southern California Institute of Architecture, 1991

Expertise: Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture

Honors and Grants:
Center for the Humanities at Tufts, 2008-2009 Fellow
Travel Fund Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2007
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity, UC Berkeley, 2004-6 (declined)

Selected Recent Scholarship

Identidad cultural plastica: Las ofrendas con figuras antropomorfas con dos picos en el Templo Mayor de Mexico.  Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia. (in press)

2005 “The Aztec Myth of the Suns,” “Feast to Tezcatlipoca,” and“Aztec Gods” in Caliope: Exploring World History, Michael Smith ed. Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone Publications, pp. 16-23. 

2005 “Mexica Portable Sculpture: Symbols of Imperial Power and Cultural Integration,” in Archaeology without Limits: Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan.  Lancaster, PA: Labyrinthos Press, pp.: 325-344.

Co-Authored Publications:

2004  w/ Cecelia F. Klein and Maya Stanfield-Mazzi  “Reply to Pieter Jolly’s commentary” in Current Anthropology.

2002  w/ Cecelia F. Klein, Elisa Mandell, and Maya Stanfield-Mazzi  “The Role of Shamanism in Mesoamerican Art: A Reassessment,” in Current Anthropology Vol. 43, Num. 3.

2002  w/ Cecelia F. Klein, Elisa Mandell, Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, and Josephine Volpe  “Shamanitis: A Pre-Columbian Art Historical Disease,” in Shamanism. Uses and Abuses of a Concept, (Bibliotheca Shamanistica, vol. 10), Henri-Paul Franfort and Roberte Hamayon eds. in collaboration with Paul Bahn. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.

2000  w/ John Ott  “Documentary Materials,” in Made In California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000. Los Angeles: University of California Press, p.324.

Published Translations:

1998  Translation from Spanish of Ancestors of the Inca. Memphis: Wonders, The Memphis International Cultural Series.

Work in Progress:

Sculpting Imperialism: The Diverse Expression of Local Cults and Corporate Identity in the ‘Two-Tufted’ Figure at the Templo Mayor. (book manuscript in progress)

Courses taught

Introductory Courses
FAHS 0002 02
A View of the Ancient Middle and South America

FAHS 0035 01
A Critical Perspective of the Americas

Upper Division Courses
FAHS 0133 01
Maya Art and Architecture from Kings and the Courtly Elite to Modern Day Survivors
     
FAHS 100 A
Art of Ancient Mexico
     
FAHS 0131 01
The Art of Building Empire: An Examination of Hegemonic Strategies 

FAHS 0101 01 
Space, Place, and Ritual: Theories and Approaches in Understanding Architecture in the Ancient Americas
     
FAHS 0142 01
Imagining and Possessing the Americas: The Complexities of Colonial Views

FAHS 0170 01
Biting the Hand that Feeds?: A Reassessment of Collecting, Exhibiting, and Marketing Art and Culture

FAHS 0145 01
Mexico City: From Floating Gardens to Elevated Highways

Courses Taught at Tufts
SPAN 192E
De Jardínes Suspendidos a Carreteras Elevadas: La Ciudad de México, la Megalopolis Rugiente

AMER 0102
Indigenous Exchanges: Cultural Interactions in the Native Southwest and Mesoamerica

FAH 92-190b    
Imaging and Possessing the Americas: Colonial Perspectives and Returning Gazes