Professional Papers

2017    The 2016 Season at El Rayo, Nicaragua: Civic-Ceremonial Structures, Tombs, and Feasting from the Bagaces to Sapoa Transition (with Shaelyn Rice, Sharisse McCafferty, Dieuwertjke Van Boekel). Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.

2017    About Face: A Head-on Examination of Pre-Columbian Social Identity (with Emilie LeBrell). Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.    

2017    Fringe Identities: Costume in the Mixtec Codices (with Sharisse McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.

2017    Costume and Identity in Pacific Nicaragua (with Sharisse McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.

2017    The Function of Candeleros and the Enigmatic Relationship between Teotihucan and Honduras (with Kate Richey). Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.

2016    Taboo to Diffuse: New Light on Mexican Migrations to Greater Nicoya (with Ana Morales). 49th Chacmool Conference: The Archaeology of Taboo. Chacmool Archaeological Association, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2016    Archaeological Field Schools: Research or Extreme Babysitting? (with Sharisse McCafferty, Shaelyn Rice, and Emilie LeBrell). 49th Chacmool Conference: The Archaeology of Taboo. Chacmool Archaeological Association, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2016    Mixteca-Puebla Style Ceramics from Early Postclassic Pacific Nicaragua. 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Pre-Columbian Association Research Colloquium. Denver, CO.

2016    The Greater Nicoya Region of Pacific Central America: A Comparison of Two Bagaces to Sapoa Transitional Areas (with Elisa Fernandez-Leon). Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL.

2016    Mortuary Practices at Locus 3, El Rayo, Nicaragua (with Jessica Manion). Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL.

2016    In Defense of Plainware Ceramics: Form, Function, and Foodways in Sapoa Period Pacific Nicaragua (with Shaelyn Rice). Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL.

2016    Camp Granada the Next Generation: Recent Excavations at the El Rayosite Pacific Nicaragua (with Sharisse McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL.

2015    Spinning in the Grave: Gender, Textile Symbolism, and Mortuary Practices on the Mesoamerican Frontier. 48th Chacmool Conference: The Archaeology of Sustainability. Chacmool Archaeological Association, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2015    Blood of the Gods: Chocolate as Sacrament in Medieval Mexico and Central America. Conference: The Medieval Americas: Violence, Religion and Cultural Exchange Before Columbus. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL.

2015    The Ceramics of Postclassic Nicaragua: Recent Investigations in Style, Manufacture, and Influences (with Carrie Dennett and Sharisse McCafferty). Dumbarton Oaks workshop: The Art and Archaeology of Central America and Colombia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.

2014    Gopher it!: Exploring Gender Stereotypes at the Torrington Museum (with Nicole Jacobsen). 47th Chacmool Conference: Breaking Barriers. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2014    Highland/Lowland Interaction in Epiclassic Cholula (with Sergio Suarez Cruz and Tanya Chiykowski). 47th Chacmool Conference: Breaking Barriers. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2014    Lahar-di-har-har: A Critical Evaluation of Theories of Volcanic Catastrophe in thePuebla/Tlaxcala Valley (with Jolene Debert). 47th Annual Chacmool Conference: Breaking Barriers. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2014    Sonzapote: Power and Authority at an Early Urban Center in Nicaragua. Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2014    Monumentality at Sonzapote, Nicaragua (with Sharisse McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2014    Recent Research concerning the X-Ray Diffraction of Nicaraguan Ceramic Composition (with Kelsey Friesen).  Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2013    Sonzapote: Un Centro Ceremonial/Urbano en la Isla Zapatera, Nicaragua (with Oscar Pavon Davila and Ligia Galeano).  V Congreso Centroamericano de Arqueologia. San Salvador, El Salvador.

2013    Funcion y Simbolismo de las Urnas en Forma de Zapato del Pacifico de Nicaragua (with Sharisse McCafferty). V Congreso Centroamericano de Arqueologia. San Salvador, El Salvador

2013    Feathery Serpents of Central America (with Jessica Manion).  46th Annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference Trading Spaces: The Archaeology of Interaction, Migration, and Exchange, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.    

2013    These Boots Weren’t Made for Walking: Shoe-Pots in Mesoamerica and the Greater Nicoya Region (with Sharisse McCafferty). 46th Annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference Trading Spaces: The Archaeology of Interaction, Migration, and Exchange, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.    

2013    Of Chickens and Eggs: The White Slip Ceramic Horizon of Early Postclassic Mexico and Central America (with Carrie L. Dennett).  46th Annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference Trading Spaces: The Archaeology of Interaction, Migration, and Exchange, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2013    Tales of the Lost Cihuatecos (with Michelle Smekal).  46th Annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference Trading Spaces: The Archaeology of Interaction, Migration, and Exchange, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2013    A Polygraph for Polychromes: X-Ray Diffraction of Nicaraguan Ceramics (with Kelsey Friesen).  46th Annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference Trading Spaces: The Archaeology of Interaction, Migration, and Exchange, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.    

2013    Chocolate Soup for the Soul: Cacao Symbolism in Ancient Nicaragua (with Sharisse D. McCafferty).  Canadian Archaeological Association, Whistler, BC.

2013    Vessels of Meaning: Feathered Serpent Imagery on Postclassic Nicaraguan Ceramics (with Jessica Manion and Sarah Keller).  Canadian Archaeological Association, Whistler, BC.

2013    Communities of Practice?  Garden Cities of Pacific Nicaragua.  Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, HI.

2013    Sacasa Striated Ovoid ‘Shoe-Pots’ of Pacific Nicaragua: Function and Meaning (with Sharisse D. McCafferty).  Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, HI.

2013    Surfing the Classic Collapse in Central Mexico: Cholula in the Classic to Postclassic Transition (400-1200 CE) (with Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown).  Conference Beyond Collapse, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.

2012    Headhunters of Lake Cocibolca, Nicaragua (with Sharisse McCafferty). 45th Annual Chacmool Conference The Archaeology of War and Peace, Calgary, AB.

2012    Social Change and Continuity in the Bagaces to Sapoá Transition at El Rayo, Nicaragua (with Carrie Dennett).  Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN.

2012    Xochicalco and the Epiclassic Writing Systems: Dave Kelley has the Final Word (with Sharisse McCafferty and David H. Kelley).  Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN.

2012    Mixtec Costume as Symbolic Communication (with Sharisse McCafferty).  Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN.

2011    The Mexican Legacy in Nicaragua, or Problems when Data Behave Badly.  American Anthropological Association, Montreal, QU.

2011    De-Mexicanizing Postclassic Nicaragua.  American Society of Ethnohistory, Pasadena, CA.

2011    Malintzin through Indian Eyes (with Sharisse McCafferty).  American Society of Ethnohistory, Pasadena, CA.

2011    Traje y Identidad en los Codices Mixtecos (with Sharisse McCafferty).  Symposium in Honor of Michael Lind, Oaxaca, Mexico.  

2011    Cholula y el Caso de Identidad Mixteco.  Symposium in Honor of Michael Lind, Oaxaca, Mexico.

2011    Reflections on Ten Years of Nicaraguan Archaeology.  Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA.

2011    Pottery and People: Reassessing Social Identity in Pacific Nicaragua (with Carrie Dennett).  Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA.

2011    Raising the Dead: Mortuary Patterns in Pacific Nicaragua (with Sharisse McCafferty, Celise Chilcote, and Andrea Waters-Rist).  Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA.

2011    Chorotega Ethnicity on Mesoamerica’s Southern Frontier: A Narrative on Archaeological Mis-direction and Discovery. College Art Association, New York, NY.

2010    Archaeo-Tourism as Sustainable Development?  43rd Annual Chacmool Conference: Archaeology in the Public Eye.  University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2010    Eva Discovers her Ancestors: Patrimony Education through Children’s Literature (with Sharisse McCafferty).  43rd Annual Chacmool Conference: Archaeology in the Public Eye.  University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2010    Of Hearth and Home: A Contextual Analysis of an Early Postclassic Residential Complex in Cholula, Mexico. Canadian Archaeological Association, Calgary, AB.

2010    Model Building and Model Bashing in Nicaraguan Household Archaeology (with Sacha Wilke).  Canadian Archaeological Association, Calgary, AB.

2010    Mesoamerica from the Southern Frontier: Canadian Archaeologists in Central America (with Carrie Dennett). Canadian Archaeological Association, Calgary, AB.

2010    Canadian Contributions to Mesoamerican Gender Studies (with Sharisse McCafferty).  Canadian Archaeological Association, Calgary, AB.

2010    Archaeological Investigations on the Shore of Lake Nicaragua and the ‘Out of Mexico’ Hypothesis (with Carrie Dennett). Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO.

2010    Mortuary Practices from Granada, Nicaragua (with Sharisse McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO.

2009    Stumbling toward Chorotega Identity in Pacific Nicaragua.  42nd Annual Chacmool Conference Identity Crisis: The Archaeology of Social Identity, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2009    Bling Things: Ornamentation and Identity in Pacific Nicaragua (with Sharisse McCafferty).42nd Annual Chacmool Conference Identity Crisis: The Archaeology of Social Identity, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2009    Cuando llegaron los Mexicanos? La Transicion entre los periodos Bagaces y Sapoa en Granada, Nicaragua (with Silvia Salgado and Carrie Dennett).  III Congreso Centroamericano de Arqueologia en  El Salvador.  San Salvador, El Salvador.

2009    Tlachihualtepetl: El Altepetl Primordial.  Conference Cholula y los Pueblos Vecinos, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.

2009    Apocalipsis? No! Una Critica a las teorias sobre la Destruccion de Cholula.  Conference Cholula y los Pueblos Vecinos, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.

2009    La Produccion Textil en el Postclasico de Cholula (with Sharisse McCafferty).  Conference Cholula y los Pueblos Vecinos, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico

2009    Amazon Women of Ancient Mesoamerica.  Conference The Many Faces of War, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2009    Practice and Habitus in Postclassic Communities of Pacific Nicaragua (with Tanya Chiykowski, Sacha Wilke, and Larry Steinbrenner).  Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.

2009    Preliminary Results of Archaeological Research at Tepetate, Nicaragua (with Brett Watson).  Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.

2008 Power and Authority at Postclassic Tepetate, Nicaragua: Preliminary Results of the PAGN Project (with Brett Watson). 41^st Annual Chacmool Conference It’s Good to be King: The Archaeology of Power and Authority, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2008 Processional Imagery on a Mesoamerican Carved Shell Pendant: A Symbol of Power and Authority? (with Natasha Leullier Snedeker and Sarah Keller). 41^st Annual Chacmool Conference It’s Good to be King: The Archaeology of Power and Authority, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2008 Maya Migrants to Tollan Cholollan (with Tanya Chiykowski). Canadian Archaeological Association, Peterborough, ON.

2008 Preliminary Assessment of Ceramic Composition from the Santa Isabel Site (AD 800-1250), Pacific Nicaragua (with Carrie L. Dennett and Paul W.O. Hoskin). Canadian Archaeological Association, Peterborough, ON.

2008 Liminal States in an Intermediate Area: Mythstorical Tales and Archaeological Realities. Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.

2008 Shields of Clay: The Symbolism of Spindle Whorls from Postclassic Cholula (with Sharisse McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.

2007 Pinto sin Gallo: La Alimentacion de Santa Isabel Antigua. 40^th Annual Chacmool Conference Eat, Drink and be Merry: The Archaeology of Foodways. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2007 You are who you eat: De-Colonizing Aztec Cannibalism. 40^th Annual Chacmool Conference Eat, Drink and be Merry: The Archaeology of Foodways. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2007 Identidades Sociales y Interrelaciones Culturales en la Arqueologia de Nicaragua. II Congreso Centroamericano de Arqueología en El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador.

2007 El Imagen del Cuerpo Hermoso: La Construcción de la Identidad Social en Santa Isabel, Nicaragua (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). II Congreso Centroamericano de Arqueología en El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador.

2007 La Organizacion Politica de Cholula en el Epiclasico y Postclasico Temprano. Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico.

2007 Reencuentro con la Tumba 7 de Monte Alban (with Michelle Janse). Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico.

2007 Escudos de Barro: El Simbolismo del Genero en los Malacates de Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico.

2007 Buccal masks in fact and mythstory (with Sharisse McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2007 Culture Change and Ethnic Identity in Cholula, 1000 BCE-1650 CE. Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2007 Malintzin Went to War: An Engendered Perspective on the Cholula Massacre. Society for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, VA.

2006 Cholula: The Evolution of America’s Oldest City. In Cities of the Ancient Americas, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty. 25^th Annual Conference of the Western Humanities Alliance: What is a City?. University of Calgary, AB.

2006 Towards a Politically Incorrect Archaeology in Nicaragua. In De-Colonizing Archaeology: Archaeology and the Post-Colonial Critique, 39^th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2006 De-Colón-izing Malintzin: Feminism to the Rescue! In De-Colonizing Archaeology: Archaeology and the Post-Colonial Critique, 39^th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2006 La Historia Antigua del Pacifico de Nicaragua (with Silvia Salgado González and Manuel Román-Lacayo). In Congreso Internacional sobre el Mundo Chibcha, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose.

2006 The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Domestic Practice in Postclassic Santa Isabel, Nicaragua. International Congress of Americanists, Seville, Spain.

2006 Crafting the Body Beautiful: Performing Social Identity at Santa Isabel, Nicaragua (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2006 Domestic Practice in Postclassic Santa Isabel, Nicaragua. Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2005 Buscando los Nahuas de Nicaragua ... Encontrando ???. In Primero Congreso Arqueológico Centro Americano de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador.

2005 Introduction: Situating Project SIN. In Tool Time in Nicaragua: Research Results from Project SIN, Santa Isabel, Nicaragua, organized by Geoffrey G. McCafferty. 38^th Annual Chacmool Conference Tools of the Trade, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2005 An X-ray Diffraction Analysis of Santa Isabel Ceramics to Evaluate the Type-Variety Classification of Nicaragua (with Louise Klatzel-Mudry). In Tool Time in Nicaragua: Research Results from Project SIN, Santa Isabel, Nicaragua, organized by Geoffrey G. McCafferty. 38^th Annual Chacmool Conference Tools of the Trade, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2005 All that Glitters is not Gold ... but sometimes it Is! Elite Production of Status Markers at Santa Isabel, Nicaragua (with Denise Gibson), In Tool Time in Nicaragua: Research Results from Project SIN, Santa Isabel, Nicaragua, organized by Geoffrey G. McCafferty. 38^th Annual Chacmool Conference Tools of the Trade, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2005 Tooth and Consequences: Skeletal Analyses from Santa Isabel, Nicaragua (with Celise Chilcote). In Tool Time in Nicaragua: Research Results from Project SIN, Santa Isabel, Nicaragua, organized by Geoffrey G. McCafferty. 38^th Annual Chacmool Conference Tools of the Trade, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2005 Spinning Nicaragua’s Social Fabric: Textile Production and Identity at Santa Isabel (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Tool Time in Nicaragua: Research Results from Project SIN, Santa Isabel, Nicaragua, organized by Geoffrey G. McCafferty. 38^th Annual Chacmool Conference Tools of the Trade, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2005 Putting People in the Tool Box: An Integrative Approach to Keeping ‘Culture’ in Material Culture. In Tool Time in Nicaragua: Research Results from Project SIN, Santa Isabel, Nicaragua, organized by Geoffrey G. McCafferty. 38^th Annual Chacmool Conference Tools of the Trade, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2005 Recent Investigations at Santa Isabel, Nicaragua. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, UT.

2005 The Malinche Code: The Symbology of Female Discourse in Postclassic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Seeing the Past conference. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

2004 Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and the Role of Women in Social Complexification. Plenary session for Que(e)rying Archaeology: 15 Years of Gender Archaeology. 37^th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2004 Alternative and Ambiguous Gender Identities in Postclassic Central Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Who’s Who in the Endgendered Worlds of Mesoamerica, organized by Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown. 37^th Annual Chacmool Conference Que(e)rying Archaeology: 15^th Anniversary Gender Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2004 Women Behind the Mask: Gender Ideology in Teotihuacan (with Timmy Stuparyk). In Engendering Ancient Mesoamerica, chaired by Holly Parker. 37^th Annual Chacmool Conference Que(e)rying Archaeology: 15^th Anniversary Gender Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2004 Donde Están los Nicaraos: Recientes Investigaciones en el Sitio Santa Isabel, Departamento de Rivas. In Leyendo el Pasado: 107^th Aniversario del Museo Nacional de Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua.

2004 The Nahua Way? Preliminary Interpretations of of Ethnic Identity Strategies from Domestic Contexts at Santa Isabel, Nicaragua (with Larry Steinbrenner, Jolene Debert, Denise Gibson, Marco Ortega, and Jorge Zambrana). In Postclassic Transformations on Mesoamerica’s Southern Periphery, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and Larry Steinbrenner. Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, QU.

2004 All that Glitters is not Gold: Elite Production of Status Markers in Santa Isabel, Nicaragua (with Denise Gibson). Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, QU.

2004 Small Packages: A Re-Evaluation of Nicaraguan Prehistory based on New Lithic Use Wear Studies (with Jolene Debert and Larry Steinbrenner). In Postclassic Transformations on Mesoamerica’s Southern Periphery, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and Larry Steinbrenner Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, QU.

2004 Textile Production on the Southern Periphery of Mesoamerica: Recent Discoveries from Santa Isabel, Nicaragua (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In The Importance of Textiles in Mesoamerica, organized by Billie Follensbee. Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, QU.

2004 Discussant for The Importance of Textiles in Mesoamerica, organized by Billie Follensbee. Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, QU.

2004 Buscando a los Nicarao: La Arqueología de Etnicidad en Santa Isabel, Rivas, Nicaragua. In the V Congreso Centro Americana de Antropología, Managua, Nicaragua.

2004 Chair/Commentator for Representations of Women and Women’s Identities. In Negotiating Identities in Latin America, conference organized by Hendrik Kraay, Elizabeth Montes, and Geoffrey McCafferty for the Latin American Studies Program, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2003 Cholula’s Great Pyramid as ‘Water Mountain.’ In Sacred Water in Mesoamerica, symposium organized by Karen Bassie and Geoffrey McCafferty for the 36^th Annual Chacmool conference Flowing through Time: Archaeological Approaches to Water, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2003 Introduction to Sacred Water of Mesoamerica (with Roberta Parry). In Sacred Water in Mesoamerica, symposium organized by Karen Bassie and Geoffrey McCafferty for the 36^th Annual Chacmool conference Flowing through Time: Archaeological Approaches to Water, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2003 Back to the Womb: Caves, Sweatbaths, and Sacred Water in Mesoamerica (with Sharisse D McCafferty). In Sacred Water in Mesoamerica, symposium organized by Karen Bassie and Geoffrey McCafferty for the 36^th Annual Chacmool conference Flowing through Time: Archaeological Approaches to Water, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2003 Walking the Walk: Social Archaeology in Nicaragua. Radical Archaeology Theory Seminar, Binghamton, NY.

2003 El Genero como Proceso: Interpretaciones de Identidad basados en Restos Mortuarios Postclasicos de Cholula, Puebla (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Tercera Mesa de Estudios de Género, organized by María Rodríguez-Shadow. Dirección de Etnología y Antropología Social,México D. F.

2003 Guerreras: El Papel de Mujeres en la Guerra Prehispanica (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Tercera Mesa de Estudios de Género, organized by María Rodríguez-Shadow. Dirección de Etnología y Antropología Social, México D. F.

2003 Oaxaca’s Classic to Postclassic Transition: Debate Goes On. In Changing Cloud Formations: Late Classic/Postclassic Sociopolitical Transformations in Oaxaca, Mexico, organized by Jeffrey Blomster and Geoffrey McCafferty. Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI.

2002 Apocalypse Not: A Critical Analysis of Abandonment Theories from Cholula (with Jolene Debert). In Apocalypse Then and Now: The 2002 Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

2002 The Rise and Fall of a Rural Industrial Community in Upstate New York: Agency and the Environment in Alpine. In Apocalypse Then and Now: The 2002 Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2002 Boys and Girls Interrupted: Mortuary Evidence on Childhood in Postclassic Cholula, Puebla (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica, organized by Traci Ardren. American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.

2002 ‘Kingly Ideals’ and the Mixteca-Puebla Style: Craft Production in Postclassic Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Cholula: A Look Back and a Step Forward, organized by Citlalli Reynoso Ramos and Geoffrey G. McCafferty. Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO.

2002 Introduction to the Archaeology of Cholula (with Citlalli Reynoso Ramos). In Cholula: A Look Back and a Step Forward, organized by Citlalli Reynoso Ramos and Geoffrey G. McCafferty. Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO.

2002 Stepping Forward into Cholula’s Past: Discussion of Potential Research Problems. In Cholula: A Look Back and a Step Forward, organized by Citlalli Reynoso Ramos and Geoffrey G. McCafferty. Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO.

2002 Altar Egos: Domestic Ritual and Social Identity in Postclassic Cholula. In Commoner Ritual, Commoner Ideology: A View from Households and Beyond across Mesoamerica, organized by Nancy Gonlin and Jon Lohse. Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO.

2002 Santa Isabel Revisited: Preliminary Excavations at a Late Period Site in Rivas, Nicaragua (with Deepika Fernandez and Larry Steinbrenner). In Recentralizing Central American Archaeology, organized by Larry Steinbrenner and Karen Niemel. Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO.

2001 Cholula and the Case of Mixtecan Identity. In The Appropriation of Style in the Art of the Americas, organized by Cristin Cash. American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

2001 Unwrapping the Mystery of Mixtec Bundles (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Sacred Bindings of the Cosmos: Ritual Acts of Bundling and Wrapping in Ancient Mesoamerica, organized by Julia Guernsey Kappelman and F. Kent Reilly. American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C.

2001 Weaving Space: Textile Metaphors in Mixtec Sacred Landscapes (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Processions and Post-Processualist Approaches to Mesoamerican Sacred Landscapes, organized by Geoffrey G. McCafferty and Heather Orr. 34^th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2001 Beaches, Boats and Bars: The Greatest Hits of University of Calgary Archaeology in the Tropics. In Tales from Margaritaville: Research Reports from the University of Calgary, organized by Geoffrey G. McCafferty. Canadian Archaeological Association, Banff, AB.

2001 Down in the Tropical Sun: Recent Excavations in Rivas, Nicaragua (with Deepika Fernández and Larry Steinbrenner). In Tales from Margaritaville: Research Reports from the University of Calgary, organized by Geoffrey G. McCafferty. Canadian Archaeological Association, Banff, AB.

2001 Domination and Resistance to Spanish Colonialism at Cholula. Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.

2001 The Transition to the Early Postclassic in Pacific Nicaragua (with Karen Niemel and Silvia Salgado). Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.

2001 Tricky Traje: Mixtec Costume as Symbolic Communication (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.

2001 The Murals of Pre-Columbian Cholula: A Contextual Perspective (with Citlalli Reynoso Ramos, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, and Amy Jordan). Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.

2000 Pomp and Circumstance at a Pre-Columbian City: Ethnohistoric Perspectives on Ancient Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.

2000 The Spinden Manuscript Fragment: A New Page in Mixtec History (with Sharisse D. McCafferty and David H. Kelley). American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.

2000 The Meaning of the Mixteca-Puebla Stylistic Tradition on the Southern Periphery of Mesoamerica: The View from Nicaragua (with Larry Steinbrenner). Chacmool Conference Art for Archaeology’s Sake: Style and Material Culture across the Disciplines, University of Calgary, AB.

2000 Costume as Communication in the Mixtec Codices (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Chacmool Conference Art for Archaeology’s Sake: Style and Material Culture across the Disciplines, University of Calgary, AB.

2000 Alternative and Ambiguous Gender Identities in Postclassic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA.

2000 So What Else is New? A Cholula-centric Perspective on Lowland/Highland Interaction in the Classic/ Postclassic Transition. In Rethinking Tula, Tollan, and Chichen Itza organized by Cynthia Kristan-Graham and Jeff Kowalski. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.

2000 Introduction to Engendering the Past: Archaeological Perspectives on Mesoamerican Gender. In Engendering the Past: Archaeological Perspectives on Mesoamerican Gender, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty. Gender Research Symposium 2000. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2000 Alternative and Ambiguous Gender Identities in Postclassic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Engendering the Past: Archaeological Perspectives on Mesoamerican Gender, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty. Gender Research Symposium 2000. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2000 Engendering the Past: Malintzin and the Conquest of Mexico. In The Indigenous-European Encounter in Conquest Era Spanish America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

2000 Gender and the Ideology of Defeat in Pre-Columbian Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Experiences of War and the Consequences of Defeat, organized by Waldemar Haeckel. Conference co-sponsored by the Department of Greek, Latin, and Ancient History and the Latin American Studies program, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

1999 The Mixteca-Puebla Stylistic Tradition as Symbolic Communication: An Application of Information Exchange Theory. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.

1999 Questioning a Queen? A Gender-Informed Evaluation of Monte Alban’s Tomb 7 (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.

1999 Reading the Fine Print about Quetzalcoatl at Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In The Feathered Serpent as Political Currency during the Classic/Postclassic Transition, organized by Rex Koontz and Geoffrey McCafferty. Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL.

1999 Tickle Your Fancy: Feather Spinning and Textile Production in Postclassic Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Inferring Textile Production from the Archaeological Record, organized by Lynn Teague and Laurie Webster. Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL.

1999 The Irish in Historic Newport: Excavations at the St. Joseph’s Parish Church (with Kimberly Simmons). In The Archaeology of Historic Newport, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and James Garman. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, RI.

1999 Consumer Choice in the Yard Middens of the Baker House, Warren, RI (with Akeia Bowman). In The Archaeology of Historic Newport, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and James Garman. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, RI.

1999 Conspicuous Consumption at the Lawrence "Orchard House" (with John Hopeck). In The Archaeology of Historic Newport, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and James Garman. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, RI.

1999 Ancient Identity as Revealed Through Tlatilco Mortuary Ritual (with Nicole Chalfant). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, RI.

1998 Nuevas (y Viejas) Ideas sobre el Epiclassico de Cholula, Puebla. Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, San Luís Potosi, Mexico.

1998 Discussant for The Archaeology of Race and Ethnicity: The Making of Social and Historical Categories. Conference on New England Archaeology, Old Sturbridge Village, MA.

1998 Stamp Bottom Bowls and the Origins of the Mixteca-Puebla Style at Cholula, Puebla (with Jane Spencer and Sergio Suarez Cruz). In The Classic/Postclassic Transition in Central Mexico, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty. Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA.

1998 Cholula and the Legacy of Legitimacy. Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

1997 The Cholula Massacre: Factional Histories and Archaeology of the Spanish Conquest. Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

1997 Engendering the Conquest: Malintzin in the Light of Ethnohistorical Archaeology. Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK.

1997 Cholula and the Art of International Relations. University of Pennsylvania Maya Weekend, Philadelphia, PA.

1997 Ethnicity and the Classic/Postclassic Transition in the Puebla/Tlaxcala Valley Postclassic Cholula. Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, TN.

1997 Giants, Tyrants, and Toltecs: Ethnic Factionalism and Change in Classic/Postclassic Cholula. In Liminal States: Central Mesoamerica during the Classic/Postclassic Transition, organized by Rex Koontz and Geoffrey McCafferty Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

1997 Sherds of Thought: Archaeological and Art Historical Approaches to Pre-Columbian Ceramics. College Art Association, New York, NY.

1996 Discussant for Metaphor in Mesoamerican Language and Symbolism, organized by Andrea Stone. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.

1996 As the Whorl Turns: Spinning and Weaving as Metaphors for Female World-View (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Metaphor in Mesoamerican Language and Symbolism, organized by Andrea Stone. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.

1996 The Rome of Anahuac: Change and Continuity at Classic and Postclassic Cholula. In The Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Templo Mayor, organized by David Carrasco. Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project Conference, Princeton, NJ.

1996 Malintzin/Malinche: A Parable of Culture Contact. In Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspectives on Culture Contact, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Plymouth, NH.

1995 Snapshots of Ancient Mesoamerica: The Herbert Spinden Photographic Archive. Northeastern States Mesoamerican Conference, Amherst, MA.

1995 Moderator/Discussant for Descending the Ivory Tower: Optimizing the Involvement of and Benefits to our Host Communities. Northeastern States Mesoamerican Conference, Amherst, MA.

1995 The Feast of the Water Tamales as Ritual Performance at Postclassic Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

1995 Historical Perspectives on Mesoamerican Research: The Herbert Spinden Photographic Archive (with Joshua A. Bell). American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

1995 Weapons of the Weak?: Spinning and Weaving Tools in Postclassic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, MN.

1995 The Classic/Postclassic Transition at Cholula: Recent Investigations at the Great Pyramid (with Sergio Suárez Cruz). Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, MN.

1995 Respinning Tomb 7 at Monte Albán, Oaxaca (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, NV.

1995 Powerful Women in Pre-Columbian Mixtec Society (with Sharisse D. McCafferty and Byron Hamann). Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, NV.

1995 Weapons of Resistance: Spinning and Weaving Tools as Material Metaphors of Gender Discourse (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). RATS (Radical Archaeological Theory) conference, Providence, RI.

1994 Powerful Women of Pre-Columbian Oaxaca (with Sharisse D. McCafferty and Byron Hamann). American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA.

1994 Preliminary Results from the Patio of the Carved Skulls, Cholula, Mexico. Northeastern States Mesoamerican Conference, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI.

1994 The Metamorphosis of Xochiquetzal: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). 3rd Archaeology and Gender Conference, Boone, NC.

1994 Cholula and Teotihuacan in the Early Classic Period: Recent Investigations at the Transito Site (R106) (with Sergio Suárez Cruz and Martin Dudek). Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA.

1994 Tlachihualtepetl: The Great Pyramid of Cholula as Sacred Landscape (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA.

1994 The R-106 Salvage Project: A Classic Period House from Cholula, Mexico (with Sergio Suárez C., Martin Dudek, Joshua Bell, Jennifer Kimpton, Sharisse D. McCafferty, and Erik Stowers). In Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Archaeology, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Geneseo, NY.

1994 Discussant for Gender and Ethnicity in Archaeology. RATS (Radical Archaeological Theory) conference, Binghamton, NY.

1994 Mountain of Heaven, Mountain of Earth: The Great Pyramid of Cholula as Axis Mundi (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). College Art Association, New York, NY.

1993 Textile Production in Pre-Columbian Cholula, Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

1993 The Archaeology of Cholula, Mexico. American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

1993 Introducción: El Enigma de Cholula Prehispanica (with Ruben Mendoza). In Cholula Exposed: Recent Investigations and Reinterpretations at the Pre-Columbian Urban Center, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and Ruben Mendoza. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico.

1993 Una Unidad Domestica del Postclásico Temprano en Cholula, Puebla. In Cholula Exposed: Recent Investigations and Reinterpretations at the Pre-Columbian Urban Center, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and Ruben Mendoza. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico.

1993 La Gran Pirámide de Cholula: Una Reinterpretación. In Cholula Exposed: Recent Investigations and Reinterpretations at the Pre-Columbian Urban Center, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and Ruben Mendoza. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico.

1993 Textile Production in Postclassic Cholula (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In Cholula Exposed: Recent Investigations and Reinterpretations at the Pre-Columbian Urban Center, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and Ruben Mendoza. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico.

1992 Reinterpreting the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.

1992 The Ceramics of Postclassic Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, PA.

1992 Engendering Tomb 7 at Monte Alban, Oaxaca: Respinning an Old Yarn (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, PA.

1991 Contextual Archaeology of Domestic Compounds from Postclassic Cholula, Mexico. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.

1991 The Conquered Women of Cacaxtla: Gender Identity or Gender Ideology (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, LA.

1991 The Mixteca-Puebla Stylistic Tradition at Early Postclassic Cholula. International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, LA.

1990 Gender Ideologies and Practice in Pre-Columbian Central Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In The Engendered Subject: Practice and Representation in Mesoamerica, organized by Veronica Kann and Geoffrey McCafferty. American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.

1990 Ungendered Subjects: Ambiguity and Deviance in Postclassic Central Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). In The Engendered Subject: Practice and Representation in Mesoamerica, organized by Veronica Kann and Geoffrey McCafferty. American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.

1990 Contact Archaeology and the Built Environment at an Early Historic Period Site near Canandaigua Lake, NY. In Research and Theory in New York State Cultural Resource Management, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and Nina M. Versaggi. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Burlington, VT.

1990 The Binghamton Mall Project: Preliminary Results and Future Objectives (with Nina M. Versaggi and Lon E. Bulgrin). In Research and Theory in New York State Cultural Resource Management, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty and Nina M. Versaggi. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Burlington, VT.

1989 Weapons of Resistance: Material Metaphors of Gender Identity in Postclassic Mexico (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

1989 Xochiquetzal, Aztec Patroness of the Arts and Icon of Womanhood (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Conference The Goddess as Muse to Woman Artists, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY.

1989 Out of Mexico: Migration Legends of the Nicarao of Central America (with John Hoopes). Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.

1989 Introduction: Research Design, Data Sets, and Interpretations for Nineteenth Century Central New York. In The Archaeology of Social Process and Rural Economy in Nineteenth Century Central New York, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada.

1989 Halseyville: The Vision of a Rural Industrial Community. In The Archaeology of Social Process and Rural Economy in Nineteenth Century Central New York, organized by Geoffrey McCafferty Northeastern Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada.

1989 Ethnic Identity in the Material Culture of Postclassic Cholula, Mexico. Society for Historical Archaeology, Baltimore, MD.

1988 Powerful Women and the Myth of Male Dominance in Aztec Society (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Northeastern Anthropological Association, Albany, NY.

1988 The Rise and Decline of a Rural Industrial Village in Central New York: A Case Study from Alpine, NY. Northeastern Anthropological Association, Albany, NY.

1987 Mexican Spinning and Weaving as Female Gender Identity (with Sharisse D. McCafferty). Conference Costume as Communication: Current Issues in Ethnographic Cloth and Costume from Middle America and the Central Andes of South America, organized by Margot Schevill. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, RI.

1986 The Material Culture of Early Postclassic Cholula and the 'Mixteca-Puebla' Problem. Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.