University of Texas at San Antonio

M. Kathryn Brown is the Lutcher Brown Endowed Professor in Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her PhD from Southern Methodist University in 2003. Much of her research examines questions related to the development of divine kingship during the Preclassic and how this institution was continually maintained and legitimized during the Classic period through religion, economy, and warfare. She is currently the director of the Mopan Valley Preclassic Project and co-director of the Mopan Valley Archaeological Project. Her publications include Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare (with Travis Stanton), Pathways to Complexity: A View from the Maya Lowlands (with George J. Bey III), and A Forest of History: The Maya after the emergence of Divine Kinship (with Travis Stanton).