Binghamton University

David Mixter is Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York after receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. Broadly, his scholarship focuses on the social implications of cities that have been constructed, lived in, and reconstructed over hundreds or thousands of years. How do these long-lived landscapes construct collective remembering, social inequality, and urban power structures? In the Maya context, his research centers on the Preclassic establishment of royal rulership and its subsequent collapse during the Terminal Classic period at the pre-Colonial Maya city of Actuncan in western Belize. He is field director of the Actuncan Archaeological Project.