Marcello Canuto (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2002) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology. He has conducted research primarily in Mexico, Belize, and Honduras, where he recently completed settlement research in and around the Classic Maya city of Copan. His academic interests include household and community dynamics, socio-political organization of the prehispanic Maya, the definition of identity through material culture, and the modern social contexts of archaeology in Mesoamerica. He currently teaches undergraduate courses in introduction to archaeology, field techniques, and Mesoamerican cultures and archaeology. He also teaches graduate seminars focusing on archaeological theory as well as on household, community and identity studies. He is the Faculty Advisor for the Yale Anthropology Society as well as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Archaeological Studies Program. Currently he is co-directing a multi-disciplinary research project in Honduras – Proyecto Arqueológico Regional El Paraíso (PAREP) – that explores Classic Maya socio-political interaction and its role in identity formation. This project brings together an international multi-disciplinary team of archaeologists, geologists, ecologists, and ethnographers that range in experience from professional to undergraduate. He is also currently working on a book titled: Communities of Family and State: The Rise of Classic Maya Socio-political Complexity.
 
Mailing address:
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
P. O. Box 208277
New Haven, CT 06520-8277

Office address:
Room 14, 51 Hillhouse Avenue
Tel: (203) 432-6610
Fax: (203) 432-3669
Email: marcello.canuto@yale.edu

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