Dr. Gabrielle Vail

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Boundary End Center

Gabrielle Vail has research affiliations with UNC-Chapel Hill’s Research Laboratories of Archaeology and InHerit: Indigenous Heritage Passed to Present (directed by Patricia McAnany), and is on the Board of Trustees at Boundary End Center in Barnardsville, NC. As Program Director of InHerit in 2016-17, she coordinated “Maya from the Margins,” a program designed to foster cultural understanding among Maya youth in Morganton, NC, and Yucatán, Mexico.  She has written extensively about the Postclassic Maya codices and served as PI of the Maya Codices Database Project (mayacodices.org). Her forthcoming books include Códice de Drede and Indigenous Conceptions of the Sky in Mesoamerica and the Andes.