Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos

Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos who received his PhD from Vanderbilt University, is Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Yale University. His research interests include Mesoamerican religion, art, and writing, the study of ancient urbanism and social complexity with a special focus on the Pacific coast of Guatemala, and the history of archaeology in Guatemala. In 2011, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on Cotzumalhuapa art and archaeology. His books, Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya (Yale), published in 2017, and Imágenes de la Mitología Maya (U. Francisco Marroquín), published in 2011, offer innovative views and methodological breakthroughs in the study of ancient Maya religion and art. He is the author of Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (Harvard), published in 2018, Cotzumalguapa, la Ciudad Arqueológica: El Baúl-Bilbao-El Castillo (F & G Editores), published in 2012, editor of Arqueología Subacuática: Amatitlán, Atitlán (U. Francisco Marroquín), published in 2011, and co-editor of The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing (U. Oklahoma), published in 2001, and The Technology of Maya Civilization: Political Economy and Beyond in Lithic Studies (Routledge), published in 2011.