Christina Halperin
Christina Halperin is a Wenner-Gren Hunt fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2009-2010) and a Cotsen Latin American Studies fellow at Princeton University (2010-2013). She received her PhD in Anthropology (2007) from the University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation, “Materiality, Bodies, and Practice: The Political Economy of Late Classic Figurines from Motul de San José, Petén, Guatemala,” examines Late Classic (ca. A.D. 600-900) Maya state and household relations through the production, circulation, imagery and use of ceramic figurines. She has published on topics such as Classic Maya Textile Production, Ceramic Materials Analyses and Exchange Systems, Maya Cave Rituals, and has recently co-edited a book on “Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena” (2009). She has engaged in archaeological excavations and cave surveys at numerous sites in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize since 1997.
