October 10, 2008 CURRICULUM VITA EDWARD BARNA KURJACK PERSONAL Address:
745 Cronin Avenue Melbourne, Florida, USA 32935
[email protected] EDUCATION: Ph. D. Ohio State University, 1972 M. A. University of Alabama, 1964 B. S. Florida State University, 1960
EXPERIENCE: I completed 33 years of teaching anthropology and archaeology at Western Illinois University (Macomb, Illinois), Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), and Ohio State University (Mansfield Center) in 1999. My research career focused on the archaeology of Southeastern USA; Yucatán, Mexico; northern Honduras; and Cotobato Province, Mindanao, Philippines. In order to facilitate my research, the Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, the Precolumbian Art Research Institute of San Francisco, and the Philippine National Museum kindly granted me honorary positions in their organizations. I was an investigator for the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History between 1975 and 1980 working on archaeological atlas projects. POSITIONS HELD: Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Western Illinois University, 1999 – present. I was hired as an Assistant Professor on Septermber 13, 1971, promoted to Associate Professor in 1973, granted tenure in 1974 and advanced to the rank of professor in 1979. Instructor and Curator of Anthropology Museum, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, September, 1964 to January, 1968, and September, 1969 to August, 1971. Teaching
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University, Columbus, Ohio, January, 1968 to March, 1969. Staff Archaeologist, Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University, carrying out research at Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico, November, 1962 to August, 1964.
Archaeologist, University of Alabama - National Park Service Walter F. George Basin Project, September, 1961 to November, 1962. Laboratory Chief, Alabama Museum of Natural History, Weiss Basin Archaeological Project, June, 1960 to January, 1961. BIBLIOGRAPHY A. Publications Concerning Lowland Maya Archaeology Kurjack, Edward B., Domestic Architecture and Social Stratification at Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico. Unpublished Master's Thesis, University of Alabama, 1964. __________, Prehistoric Lowland Maya Community and Social Organization: A Case Study at Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico. Doctoral Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1972. Publication 38, Middle American Research Institute. New Orleans: Tulane University, 1974. __________, Review of Geografía Económica de México (Siglo XVI) by Alejandra Moreno Toscano. American Anthropologist Vol. 17, p. 1808-9, 1973. __________, "Ancient Maya Political Geography in Northwestern Yucatan, Mexico." Proceedings of the Central States Anthropological Society, 1975, pp. 77-82. Two Spanish Versions: "Geografía Política de los Antiguos Mayas en el Noroeste de Yucatán." Boletín de la Escuela de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad de Yucatán, Año 3, No. 13, pp. 2-8, 1975. Also published in Revista de la Universidad de Yucatán, Vol. 17, pp. 94-101, 1975.
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__________, "The Distribution of Vaulted Architecture at Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico." Estudios de Cultura Maya, Vol. X, pp. 91-101, 1975. __________, "Sacbeob: Parentesco y el Estado Maya." Los Procesos de Cambio en Mesoamerica y Áreas Circunvecinas, XV Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, 1977. Tomo I, pp. 318-225. México, D.F., 1979. __________, "Conflicto en el arte de Chichén Itzá." Mayab: Publicación especial No 8, pp 89-96. Madrid: Sociedad española de estudios mayas, 1992. An English version translated by the editors of Mesoamerica is published in the Winter, 1988 issue (pp. 31-35).
(Publications concerning Maya archaeology, continued) __________, "Political Geography of the Yucatecan Hill Country." In Hidden among the Hills: Maya Archaeology of the Northwest Yucatan Peninsula, Hanns J. Prem, editor. Acta Mesoamericana, Vol. 7, pp. 308-315. Möckmühl: Verlag Von Flemming, 1994. __________, "Was Dzibilchaltun ñ Preindustrial City?” In Land of the Turkey and the Deer, Ruth Gubler, editor, pp. 119-128. Lancaster, California: Labyrinthos, 1999. __________, "Sitios, monumentos y la organización territorial de los mayas precolombinos.” Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 11, Tomo I, pp. 9-18. Campeche: Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, 2003. __________, “Palace and Society in the Northern Maya Lowlands” in J.J. Christie (ed) Maya Palace and Elite Residences. Austin: University of Texas Press. __________, "Geometría de las ruinas mayas.” Los Mayas de Ayer y Hoy, Tomo I, Alfredo Barrera Rubio y Ruth Gubler, editores, pp.25-46. Merida: Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán, 2006. __________, "La geología y los patrones de asentamiento en la península de Yucatán." Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 12, Tomo I, pp. 226-233. Campeche: Universidad Autónoma de Vita, Edward B. Kurjack page 3
Campeche, 2004. __________, Elena K. Lincoln y Beatriz E. Repetto, “La comunidad maya del pasado.” Yucatán a través de los siglos: Memorias del 49° Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Quito, Ecuador, 1997, Ruth Gubler y Patricia Martel, editores, pp. 249-260. Mérida, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, 2001. __________, "Visión espacial del escenario geográfico – arqueológico de los mayas.” En Homenaje a Jaime Litvak. INAH, Colección Científica, pp. 345–356. Mexico, D.F., 2004. __________, and E. Wyllys Andrews V., "Early Boundary Maintenance in Northwest Yucatan, Mexico." American Antiquity, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 318-325, 1976. __________, and Silvia Garza T., "Pre-Columbian Community Form and Distribution in the Northern Maya Area." In Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns edited by Wendy Ashmore, pp. 287-309. School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981.
(Publications concerning Maya archaeology, continued) __________, __________, and Jerry Lucas, "Archaeological Settlement Patterns and Modern Geography in the Hill Region of Yucatan." In The Puuc: New Perspectives, edited by Lawrence Mills, pp. 36-45. Pella, Iowa: Central College, 1979. Spanish Version: "Una Visión de la Geografía Humana en la Region Serrana de Yucatán." In Memoria del Congreso Interno, 1979, Centro Regional del Sureste, pp. 39-54. México, D. F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1981. __________, __________, and Merle Greene Robertson, "Ball-courts of the Northern Maya Lowlands." In The Mesoamerican Ballgame, edited by Vernon L. Scarborough and David R. Wilcox, pp. 145159. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1991. Vita, Edward B. Kurjack page 4
__________, and Merle Greene Robertson, "Politics and Art at Chichén Itzá." In Seventh Palenque Round Table, 1989, edited by Virginia M. Fields, pp. 19-23. San Francisco: PreColumbian Art Research Institute. Garza
T., Silvia and Edward B. Kurjack, "El Proyecto Atlas Arqueológico de Yucatán." In Los Procesos de Cambio en Mesoamerica y Áreas Circunvecinas, XV Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, 1977. Tomo II, p. 163-172, 1979.
__________, __________, "La Fotointerpretación y Arqueología en el Sureste." Fotointerpretación y Geodesia, No. 20, pp. 22-25, 1979. __________, __________, Atlas Arqueológico del Estado de Yucatán. Two Volumes. México, D. F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1980. __________, __________, "Fotointerpretación de las Comunidades Mayas Prehispánicas." Secundo Congreso Panamericano y VII Nacional de Fotogrametría, Fotointerpretación y Geodesía: Compendio de las Ponencias, Tomo I, pp. 45-60. México, D. F., 1980. __________, __________, "El Medio Ambiente y los Asentamientos en Epoca Prehispánica." In Memoria del Congreso Interno, 1979, Centro Regional del Sureste, pp. 17-28. México, D. F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1981.
(Publications concerning Maya archaeology, continued) __________, __________, "Organización Social y Asentamientos Mayas Prehispánicos." Estudios de Cultura Maya, Vol. XV, p. 19-28, 1984.
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__________, __________, "Organización Territorial de los Antiguos Mayas Peninsulares." In Investigaciones Recientes en el Area Maya, XVII Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, 21-27 Junio, 1981. Tomo II, pp. 75-85, 1986. __________, __________, "Los Mayas: Gigantes, Estraterrestres o Seres Humanos." Tamo Anchan: Una Cronica de Historia Regional. Año 1 Tomo I, Numero 43, p. 4 and Numero 47 p. 6. Cuernavaca: Centro Regional Morelos, INAH, 1989. Rubén Maldonado C. y Edward B. Kurjack, "Reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre Chichén Itzá, sus vecinos peninsulares y Tula." Arqueología, Numero 9-10, Enero-Diciembre, 1993, pp. 98-103. __________, __________, y Merle Greene Robertson, "Los juegos de pelota en las Tierras Bajas Mayas del Norte." In Homenaje A Roman Piña Chan, Roberto García Moll and Angel García Cook, Coordinators, pp. 17-39. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1989. Repetto Tio, Beatriz and Edward B. Kurjack, "La catalogación de los sitios arqueologicos que forman el patrimonio nacional." In Coloquio En Torno A La Obra De Un Mayista: Sylvanus G. Morley 1883 - 1948, Alfredo Barrera Rubio, Coordinator, pp. 33-36. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1992. Stuart, George E., John C. Scheffler, Edward B. Kurjack and John W. Cottier, Map of the Ruins of Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico. "Introduction" by Edward B. Kurjack. Middle American Research Institute, Publication 47. New Orleans: Tulane University, 1979. Vlcek, David T., Silvia Garza T. and Edward B. Kurjack, Contemporary Farming and Ancient Maya Settlement: Some Disconcerting Evidence." In Prehispanic Maya Agriculture, edited by P. D. Harrison and B. L. Turner, pp. 211-223. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978.
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B. Publications Concerning Southeast Asian Archaeology Kurjack, Edward B. and Craig T. Sheldon, "The Archaeology of Seminoho Cave, Lebak, Cotobato." Silliman Journal, Vol. XVII, No. 1, pp. 5-18. Dumagete, Negros Oriental, Philippines: Silliman University, 1970. __________, __________, and Maria E. Keller, "The Urn Burial Caves of the Southern Cotobato Highlands, Mindanao, Philippines." Mimeographed paper, 67th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 23, 1968, Seattle, Washington. Abstract, Bulletins of the American Anthropological Association, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 81, 1968. C. Publications Concerning Eastern United States Prehistory Kurjack, Edward B., "Claypipes at the Childersburg Site in Alabama." Florida Anthropologist, Vol. XVI, pp. 21-22, 1961. __________, "Archaeological Investigations in the Walter F. George Basin." In Archaeological Salvage in the Walter F. George Basin of the Chattahoochee River in Alabama, edited by David L. DeJarnette, pp. 87-198. University: University of Alabama Press, 1975. __________, and Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr., "Special Investigation of 1RU 101, The Spanish Fort Site." In Archaeological Salvage in the Walter F. George Basin of the Chattahoochee River in Alabama, edited by David DeJarnette, pp. 200-222. University: University of Alabama Press, 1975. DeJarnette, David L., Edward B. Kurjack and James Cambron, "Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter Excavations." Journal of Alabama Archaeology, Vol. VII, Nos. 1-2, pp. 1-111, 1963. Reprinted in The First Ten Years of the Journal of Alabama Archaeology, edited by David L. DeJarnette, pp. 403-515. University: Alabama Archaeological Society, 1974. __________, __________, and Bennie C. Keel, "Archaeological Investigations of the Weiss Reservoir of the Cosa River in Alabama." Journal of Alabama Archaeology, Vol. XIX, Nos. 1-2, pp. 1-201, 1973. Vita, Edward B. Kurjack page 7