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Spencer T. Mitchell
Lecturer - Anthropology
Spencer T. Mitchell is an archaeologist and art historian whose current research focuses on the growth of hinterland Maya settlements in response to regional political centralization. This research is associated with the Program for Belize archaeological project (PFBap) and UCSB’s Human Paleoecology and Isotope Biogeochemistry Laboratory. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working under the guidance of Douglass J. Kennett, Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Settlement Patterns
- Visual Modes of Communication
- Classic Maya Networks
- AMS 14C Analysis
- Geographic Information Science and Technology
- Mesoamerican forms of Writing
- Pictorial Systems (Aztec and Mixtec)
- Hieroglyphic (Maya)
- Ph.D. (expected 2025), University of California, Santa Barbara
- M.A. Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
- M.A. Art History, Texas Tech University
- Graduate Certificate, Geographic Information Science and Technology, University of Southern California
- B.A. Anthropology, Cal Poly Humboldt