Professor David Carballo writes new article “Governance Strategies in Precolonial Central Mexico” for the journal Frontiers where he addresses the mischaracterization in media that the Aztec empire exhibit as a variability in governing strategies over time and space of interest to comparatively oriented scholars of premodern polities. Although we can think of common themes of […]
Professor David Carballo, Edith Domingues, Santino Rivero, and Daniel Hernández have released a new zine/comic, illustrated by Rafel Mena on the archaeology of Teotihuacan, life in the ancient city, and the importance of preserving remains of it outside of the fenced-in, touristed zone. It’s aimed at local youth, of course, but may be of interest […]
“Literature is not a generator of symptoms, a potential patient of theory”: An Interview with Alicia Borinsky By Matías Borg Oviedo Alicia Borinsky is a U.S.-based Argentine novelist, poet, and literary critic. She is also Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature and Director of the Writing in the Americas Program at Boston University. Excerpt: MBO: […]
In this video, Victoria Guerrero Peirano, PhD (GRS’08), a professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, reflects on how her time at BU has influenced her poetry and prose about the lives of women. In Boston, she says, she was able to find books about women, feminism, and other topics that were simply not available […]
Congratulations to Prof. David Carballo, who is one of the nation’s preeminent scholars in Mesoamerican archaeology, for his promotion to Full Professor. His research focuses particularly on the prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico. Currently ongoing projects at the ancient city of Teotihuacan include the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga, Teotihuacan (PATT), and the Proyecto Plaza de las […]