Laura Villamil

Assistant Professor

Office: Sabin 231
Phone: (414)229-3396
e-mail: laurav@uwm.edu

Degree(s):

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.A., University of California, Berkley

Research Interests:

Ancient Maya, urbanization and ancient cities, ceramic analysis, archaeology and nationalism in modern Latin America, landscape archaeology, archaeological method and theory.

Other Relevant Activities:

Co-organizer, Midwest Mesoamericanist Meeting, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, March 19 & 20, 2010
Co-director of the Margarita Archaeological Project in Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Courses Taught:

Anth 103: Digging up the Past: Approaches to Archaeology
Anth 311: The World of the Ancient Maya
Anth 565: Topics in Regional Archaeology: The Maya
Anth 651: Seminar in Anthropology: Ancient Cities

Recent Publications:

(Forthcoming) Ancient Maya Cityscapes: Insights from Lagartera and Margarita, Quintana Roo, Mexico. BAR International Series Archaeopress, Oxford.

2008. Creating, transforming, rejecting, and reinterpreting Ancient Maya urban landscapes: insights from Lagartera and Margarita. In Norman Yoffee (ed.), Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research, pp 183-214. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

2005. Investigating Urban Diversity in South-Central Quintana Roo, Mexico. Laura P. Villamil and Jason Sherman. In Justine M. Shaw and Jennifer Matthews (eds), Quintana Roo Archaeology, pp 197-213. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.