DIANA N. FRIDBERG - Washington University in St. Louis

DIANA N. FRIDBERG
[email protected]
CURRENT POSITION
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Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology (ABD) at Washington University in St. Louis. Expected
defense date April 2015 for May 2015 degree.
Working dissertation title: “Classic Maya Ritual Animal Utilization in Northwestern
Petén, Guatemala”
EDUCATION
Washington University in St. Louis
2011–Present Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology
2010
A.M., Anthropology
University of Oxford
2006
M.Sc., Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Harvard University
2005
A.B. cum laude, Anthropology
Certificate, Latin American Studies; Citation, Spanish Language
PUBLICATIONS
2014
Análisis de restos de fauna del Entierro 6 de La Corona. In Proyecto Arqueológico La Corona: Informe
Final, Temporada 2013, edited by T. Barrientos Q., M. A. Canuto and J. Ponce, pp. 235-242, Guatemala.
Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.
2013
Análisis de restos óseos de fauna. In Proyecto Regional Arqueológico El Perú-Waka': Informe No. 11,
Temporada 2013, edited by J. C. Pérez Calderón and D. A. Freidel, pp. 170-178. Report submitted to the
Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.
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Estado de la investigación de la fauna en El Perú-Waka'. In Proyecto Regional Arqueológico El PerúWaka': Informe No. 10, Temporada 2012, edited by J. C. Pérez Calderón and D. A. Freidel, pp. 172-174.
Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.
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Análisis de restos de fauna de un depósito de festín ritual de la Estructura 13R-10. In Proyecto
Arqueológico La Corona: Informe Final, Temporada 2012, edited by T. Barrientos Q., M. A. Canuto and
J. Ponce, pp. 336-347, Guatemala. Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia,
Guatemala.
2011
Análisis e inventario preliminar de los restos de fauna de La Corona. In Proyecto Arqueológico La
Corona: Informe Final, Temporada 2010, edited by T. Barrientos Q., M. A. Canuto and M. J. Acuña, pp.
361-374, Guatemala. Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.
DIANA N. FRIDBERG
2010
Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Paal Residential Group (Operation 5), El Perú-Waka', Petén.
Manuscript on file, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
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La zooarqueología de la Operación WK05, Groupo Paal: Resultados de Análisis. In Proyecto Regional
Arqueológico El Perú-Waka': Informe No. 8, Temporada 2010, edited by M. J. Acuña, pp. 60-73. Report
submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2014
Fridberg, Diana N. “The Big Role of Small Game in the Maya Lowlands.” 79th Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX
2013
Fridberg, Diana N., Olivia Navarro Farr, Griselda Pérez Robles, and Damaris Menéndez. “The
Animal Face of a Ritual Space at El Perú-Waka’, Guatemala.” 78th Annual Meeting of the Society
for American Archaeology, Honolulu, HI.
2012
Fridberg, Diana N. and Clarissa Cagnato. “Estudios de Plantas e Animales en La Corona.” XXVI
Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2011
Fridberg, Diana N. “Thinking about Turtles at El Perú-Waka’, Petén.” 76th Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA.
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Baron, Joanne, Diana Fridberg, and Marcello Canuto. “Entró el Agua: Utilización de Especies
Acuáticas en Contextos Mortuorios de La Corona, Guatemala.” XXI Encuentro Internacionál
de Investigadores de Cultura Maya, Campeche, Mexico.
2010
Fridberg, Diana N. “Residential Zooarchaeology at El Perú-Waka’, Petén: Subsistence in an
Ancient Lowland Maya Center.” 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, New Orleans, LA.
AWARDS AND EXTERNAL GRANTS
2014-2015
2014
2011
Dissertation Fellowship
Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence 2013-2014, Washington University in St. Louis
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
Project Title: “Classic Maya Human-Animal Interactions”
Distributed 2011-2013 (BCS-1208892)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Summer 2014
Introduction to Archaeology
Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Spring 2014
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Fall 2013
Zooarchaeology
Spring 2013
Anthropology of Human Birth
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DIANA N. FRIDBERG
Fall 2012
Fall 2011
2010–2011
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Zooarchaeology
Kill Assessment: An Investigation into Violence
Laboratory Instructor, Introduction to Archaeology
Anthropology of Human Birth
The Ancient Maya
The Political Economy of Health
Introduction to Archaeology
Teaching Assistant, Southern Methodist University
Spring 2008
Anthropology of Warfare and Violence
Fall 2007
Fantastic Archaeology
FIELD AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2009–
2010–
2012
2010
2010
2008
2004
Project Zooarchaeologist, El Perú-Waka’ Archaeological Project, Guatemala (current)
Project Zooarchaeologist, La Corona Regional Archaeological Project, Guatemala (current)
Field Laboratory Director, El Perú-Waka’ Archaeological Project, Guatemala (summer)
Crew member, SMU-in-Taos excavations at Turley Mill, Taos, NM (summer)
Crew member, Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, IL (summer)
Crew member, Mopan Valley Preclassic Project, Xunantunich, Belize (summer)
Collections Intern, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA (summer)
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