Opportunity

So I got accepted to a cool summer institute sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. We will travel to Mexico CIty for two weeks and then to the desert southwest of the United States to study a variety of things; iconography, settlement patterns, and cultural/religious roots of late classical Mexican culture, and then, making cultural connections between pre-columbian people of the desert southwest and their neighbors south of the "border" in Mexico.

It's super exciting. I can't tell what interests me more, the iconography or the settlement patterns. As a botanist, a trained anthropologist, and frequent traveler to Mexico I can't imagine a better way to bridge the gap between science and the humanities, the stated goal of this year's sabbatical.