Ph.D Boston University, ARCHAEOLOGY, expected 2019 Foci: Mesoamerican Archaeology, Classic Period Maya, Labor Organization, Ancient Economies, Digital Humanities, Archaeological Illustration
B.F.A Savannah College of Art and Design, ART HISTORY, 2013 Foci: Arts of the Ancient Americas, Maya Iconography, Illustration Magna Cum Laude
AWARDS
Chad DiGregorio Memorial Grant, $900 2017 Boston University Rust Family Foundation: Funding for Archaeology Projects, $5,000 2017 Rust Family Foundation
Alumni Mentor to the Department of Art History, $1,000 2017 Savannah College of Art and Design Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship, $12,000 2017 Boston University
SCAD Alumni Atelier Ambassadorship, $10,000 2017 Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste, France
Chad DiGregorio Memorial Grant, $1,350 2017 Boston University
Mugar Library's Digital Data Services Fellowship, $10,000 2017 Boston University, deferred
Graduate Student Association Summer Stipend, $6,000 2016 Boston University
Latin American Studies Program's Travel Grant, $500 2016 Boston University
Göettingen Centre for the Digital Humanities Spring School Fellow 2015Göettingen University, Göettingen, Germany
Chad DiGregorio Memorial Grant, $1,250 2015 Boston University
Department of Archaeology Teaching Fellow, $22,500 per annum 2014 – 2018Boston University
National Geographic Society Expeditions Council Grant #EC0655-13 (2/14–2/14): Unearthing Xultun’s Dynastic Origins, $28,500 2014Graduate Student: Mary Clarke, PI: William A. Saturno, Boston University
Deans Fellowship 2013 – 2014Boston University
Conference Travel Grant, $100 2013 Boston University
Conference Travel Grant, $100 2013 South Central Mesoamerican Conference
Distinction in College of Art History, $300 2013 Department of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design
Conference Travel Grant, $150 2013 Savannah College of Art and Design
Larry W. Forest Grant, $500 2011 – 2012Savannah College of Art and Design
Earle W. Newton Hogarth Scholarship, $2,500 2011 – 2012 Art History Department, Savannah College of Art and Design
Bob Welker Scholarship, $2,500 2011 Maya Research Program
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
EXCAVATION Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun 2012 – presentPetén, Guatemala
Maya Research Program 2011, 2013Blue Creek, Belize
ILLUSTRATION
Proyecto Arqueológico Regional Holtun 2016 – presentAntigua and Petén, Guatemala
Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun 2012 – presentAntigua and Petén, Guatemala
ProyectoArqueológico El Zotz 2013 – 2015 Antigua and Petén, Guatemala
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
TEACHING FELLOW, Boston University AR 100: Great Discoveries Archaeology, Professor: Franco Rossi 2016 Boston, MA., Fall
TEACHING FELLOW, Boston University’s Study Abroad Program AR 503: Archaeology Field Methods, Professor: William Saturno AR 551: Mesoamerican Archaeology, Professor: William Saturno AR 557: Archaeology Field Experience, Professor: William Saturno 2016 Antigua and Petén, Guatemala, Spring
TEACHING FELLOW, Boston University AR 251: Maya Archaeology, Professor: William Saturno 2015 Boston, MA., Fall
TEACHING FELLOW, Boston University AR 101: Introduction to Archaeology, Professor: Robert Murowcheck 2015 Boston, MA., Spring
TEACHING FELLOW, Boston University AR 101: Introduction to Archaeology, Professor: David Carballo 2015 Boston, MA., Fall
FIELD/LAB TEACHING ASSISTANT, University of Southern California Field Experience, Professor: Thomas Garrison 2014 Antigua and Petén, Guatemala, Summer
INSTRUCTOR, Boston University’s Study Abroad Program AR 503: Archaeology Field Methods, Professor: William Saturno AR 551: Mesoamerican Archaeology, Professor: William Saturno AR 557: Archaeology Field Experience, Professor: William Saturno 2014 Antigua and Petén, Guatemala, Spring
FIELD/LAB TEACHING ASSISTANT, University of Southern California Field Experience, Professor: Thomas Garrison 2013Antigua and Petén, Guatemala, Summer
INSTRUCTOR, Maya Research Program,University of Texas at Tyler Field School, Professor: Thomas Guderjan 2013 Blue Creek, Belize, Summer
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2012 – present
DIGITAL CATALOGUE AND DATABASE, Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2012 – present
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
ART EDITOR, Journal of Field Archaeology 2017 – present
PUBLICATIONS
Mary Clarke, Rachel Gill, and Emmett Nahil 2016 Excavaciones en el Cuadrante 12H, Xultun, In Proyecto Arqueologico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 13, Año 2016, edited by Boris Beltran and William Saturno. Report to the Instituto de Antropologia e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
Perez, Henry, Mary Clarke, Jorge Camilo, Katherine Martinez, and Dora Garcia 2016 Excavaciones en la Estructura 12H4, Xultun. In Proyecto Arqueologico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 13, Año 2016, edited by Boris Beltran and William Saturno. Report to the Instituto de Antropologia e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
Monica Urquizu, Mary Clarke, Alejandra Cordero, and Henry Perez 2016 Análysis de Materiales: Estudio Cerámico del Cuadrante 12H, In Proyecto Arqueologico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 13, Año 2016, edited by Boris Beltran and William Saturno. Report to the Instituto de Antropologia e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
Mary Clarke 2015 The Digital Dilemma: Preservation and the Digital Archaeological Record, Advances in Archaeological Practice 3(4):313–330.
Mary Clarke, Gabriela Luna, and Megan Carden 2014 Excavaciones en el Baño de Vapor “Los Sapos”, Operación XUL 12F5, In Proyecto Arqueologico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 12, Año 2014, edited by Patricia Rivera Castillo and William Saturno, pp. 175–210. Report to the Instituto de Antropologia e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
Garrison, Thomas G., Edwin Román, Stephen Houston, Jose Luis Garrido, Alyce de Carteret, Sarah Newman, Mary Clarke, Mariana Colín, Yeny Gutiérrez, Joel López, and Rony Piedrasanta 2014 Investigaciones del Cielo Fortificado: Resultados de la temporada 2013 del Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz. In XXVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologicas en Guatemala, 2013, edited by Bárbara Arroyo, Luis Méndez Salinas, and Andrea Rojas, pp. 951-960. Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Asociación Tikal, Guatemala.
Jennifer Wildt, Mary Clarke,Emily Bushold, and Martin Rangel 2012 Investigaciones en el Grupo 12F1, In Proyecto Arqueologico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 11, Año 2012, edited by Patricia Rivera Castillo and William Saturno, pp. 243–280. Report to the Instituto de Antropologia e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATIONS
Garrison, Thomas G., and Stephen D. Houston (editors) contracted An Inconstant Landscape: The Archaeology of El Zotz, Guatemala. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. (expected publication in 2017).
Thomas Garrison, Dustin Richmond, Perry Naughton, Eric Lo, Sabrina Trinh, Zachary Barnes, Albert Lin, Carl Schurgers, Ryan Kastner, Sarah E. Newman 2016 Tunnel Vision: Documenting Excavations in Three Dimensions with LiDAR Technology, Advances in Archaeological Practice 4(2):194–204.
Houston, Stephen, Sarah Newman, Edwin Román, and Thomas G. Garrison 2015Temple of the Night Sun: A Royal Tomb at El Diablo, Guatemala. Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, San Francisco.
Garrison, Thomas G., Edwin Román, Stephen Houston, Jose Luis Garrido, Alyce de Carteret, Sarah Newman, Mary Clarke, Mariana Colín, Yeny Gutiérrez, Joel López, and Rony Piedrasanta 2014 Investigaciones del Cielo Fortificado: Resultados de la temporada 2013 del Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz. In XXVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologicas en Guatemala, 2013, edited by Bárbara Arroyo, Luis Méndez Salinas, and Andrea Rojas, pp. 951-960. Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Asociación Tikal, Guatemala.
Garrison, Thomas G. 2014 Investigaciones en el Grupo Este de El Zotz In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, Informe No. 8, Temporada 2014, edited by J. L. Garrido López, T. Garrison, E. Román, and S. Houston, pp. 59-92. Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Schwendener, W.O. 2014 Excavcaión en una Plaza Cerrada Asociada al Reservorio de Xultun, Cuadrante 12I. In Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 13, Año 2014, editado por Patricia Rivera Castillo and William A. Saturno, pp. 17–51.
Saturno, William, Boris Beltran, Elisa Mencos, Paulo Medina, Asia Alsgaard, Timothy Foarde, and Adam Vitale 2014 Excaviónes en el Conjunto Los Arboles Operación XUL 12F19. In Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 13, Año 2014, editado por Patricia Rivera Castillo and William A. Saturno, pp. 211–296.
Del Cid, David Ricardo, and Henry Vicente Perez 2014 Investigaciones en Los Primeros Estadios Constructivos, Pirámide 12H3, Grupo B, Xultun, Petén (Sub 1, 2 y 3). In Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 13, Año 2014, editado por Patricia Rivera Castillo and William A. Saturno, pp. 297–348.
Rivera Castillo, Patricia, and William Saturno 2014 Temporada de Investigación 2014. In Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 13, Año 2014, editado por Patricia Rivera Castillo and William A. Saturno, pp. 523–536.
Mary Clarke, Gabriela Luna, and Megan Carden 2014 Excavaciones en el Baño de Vapor “Los Sapos”, Operación XUL 12F5, In Proyecto Arqueologico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 12, Año 2014, edited by Patricia Rivera Castillo and William Saturno, pp. 175–210. Report to the Instituto de Antropologia e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
Garrison, Thomas G., and André Rivas 2013 Investigaciones en la Estructura M7-1 (Operación 21). In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, Informe No. 8, Temporada 2013, edited by J. L. Garrido López, T. Garrison, E. Román, and S. Houston, pp. 63-92. Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Rossi, F., and A. Cormier 2012 El Grupo Taaj: El Contexto del Cuarto de los Murales y las Excavaciones de una Residencia Élite. In Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 11, Año 2012, editado por Patricia Rivera Castillo y William A. Saturno, pp. 97–165.
Rivera Castillo, Patricia, David Del Cid, and Boris Beltran 2012 Descripción de piezas Recuperadas en el Sitio Xultun, Temporada 2012. In Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 11, Año 2012, editado por Patricia Rivera Castillo y William A. Saturno, pp. 517–534.
Rivera Castillo, Patricia, Boris Beltran, Weagli Estuardo Veliz Casasola, and David Del Cid 2012 Estructura 11J7: Recientos Ceremoniales; Entierros 10 y 12, Xultun. In Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 11, Año 2012, editado por Patricia Rivera Castillo y William A. Saturno, pp. 211–242.
Jennifer Wildt, Mary Clarke, Emily Bushold, and Martin Rangel 2012 Investigaciones en el Grupo 12F1, In Proyecto Arqueologico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 11, Año 2012, edited by Patricia Rivera Castillo and William Saturno, pp. 243–280. Report to the Instituto de Antropologia e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Mary Clarke and Ashley Sharpe Depictions and Deposits: A Joint Look at the Fauna Associated with a Classic Period Maya Sweatbath Planned to be presented at the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C.
Henry Perez, Mary Clarke, Mónica Urquizu, Alejandra Cordero, Jorge Camilo, Dora Garcia, Rachil Gill, Emmett Nahil, Boris Beltran, and William Saturno La Vida entre las Canteras: Excavaciones Recientes en Área de Producción de Piedra de Xultun 2017 Presented at the annual Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Emmett Nahil and Mary Clarke Early Stages of Monument Production: New Evidence from Xultun 2017 Presented at the Conference for the Society of American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mary Clarke and Franco Rossi Inequality and Gender in the Spaces of Craft Production 2017 Presented at the Conference for the Society of American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, Canada Mary Clarke The Digital Dilemma: Preservation and the Digital Archaeological Record 2015Presented at the 20th Annual European Maya Conference, themed the Maya in a Digital Age, Bonn, Germany
Mary Clarke and Gabriella Luna Interpretación de ‘Los Sapos’: la Función y Significa detrás del Baño de Vapor en el Sitio Xultun 2015Presented at the XXIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arequeológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Mary Clarke Interpreting Los Sapos: Evaluating the Function and Meaning of an Early Classic Period Sweatbath at Xultun 2015 Presented at the Boston University Biennial Graduate Student Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
Mary Clarke and Gabriella Luna Performance at Los Sapos: Evaluating the Use of an Early Classic Period Sweatbath 2015Presented at the Conference for the Society of American Archaeology, San Francisco, California
Thomas Garrison, Mary Clarke, Stephen Houston, Katie Simon, and Vance Green “We May Have to Call Someone”: 3D Technologies in the Context of Lowland Maya Field Archaeology 2014Presented at the Conference for the Society of American Archaeology, Austin, Texas
Mary Clarke Xultún: Recent Investigations at a Classic Maya Metropolis 2013 Presented at the South-Central Conference on Mesoamerica, Houston, Texas
Mary Clarke Iconographic Analysis of a Potential Sweat Bath at Xultún 2013Presented at the Conference for the Society of American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii
Mary Clarke Gendered Performance, Gendered Identity: Mexica–Aztec Ritual at the Templo Mayor 2011 Presented at the Savannah College of Art and Design Larry Forest Writing Competition, Savannah, Georgia
PROFICIENCIES
LANGUAGE
French: reading/writing
Spanish: reading/writing/speaking
PROGRAMS
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects