University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Patricia A. McAnany is Kenan Eminent Professor and Chair of Anthropology at UNC-CH and Chair of the Senior Fellows at Dumbarton Oaks, Pre-Columbian Studies Program, in Washington, D.C. She has been the recipient of research awards from the National Science Foundation and the Archaeological Institute of America, and of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the John Carter Brown Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC-CH. A Maya archaeologist, she is principal co-investigator of Proyecto Arqueológico Colaborativo del Oriente de Yucatán, a community archaeology project focused on the Preclassic through contemporary community of Tahcabo, Yucatán. As Executive Director of InHerit: Indigenous Heritage Passed to Present (www.in-herit.org), she works with local communities throughout the Maya region and beyond to provide opportunities to dialogue about cultural heritage and to participate in heritage conservation. She is the author and coeditor of many publications, including Maya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past (2016); Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective (2010); Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire (2010, with Norman Yoffee); and Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society (2014, revised edition).