Boston University, Program of Archaeology 675 Commonwealth Ave., STE. 354A Boston, MA. 02215 meclarke@bu.edu
EDUCATION
current Ph.D. in Archaeology, Boston University ABD, November 2016
2016 M.A. in Archaeology,Boston University
2013 B.F.A. in Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design
EXTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, BCS 1916303, $25,106 2017 National Science Foundation
Rust Family Foundation: Funding for Archaeology Projects, $5,000 2017 Rust Family Foundation
Göettingen Centre for the Digital Humanities Spring School Fellow 2015Göettingen University, Göettingen, Germany
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
Bob Welker Scholarship, $2,500 2011 Maya Research Program
INTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Boston University Center for the Humanities, Dissertation Writing Fellowship, $12,500 2020 Boston University
Graduate Student Association Summer Stipend, $2,000 2019 Boston University
Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (short-term), $4,000 2019 Boston University
Deans Fellowship, $22,500 2018–2019 Boston University
David Scott Palmer Student Travel Award, Center for Latin American Studies. $700 2018 Boston University
Chad DiGregorio Memorial Grant, $900 2017 Boston University
Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (long-term), $12,000 2017 Boston University
Alumni Mentor to the Department of Art History, $1,000 2017 Savannah College of Art and Design
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, declined
Graduate Student Association Summer Stipend, $6,000 2016 Boston University
Latin American Studies Program's Travel Grant, $500 2016 Boston University
Chad DiGregorio Memorial Grant, $1,250 2015 Boston University
Department of Archaeology Teaching Fellow, $22,500 per annum 2014 – 2018Boston University
Deans Fellowship 2013–2014 Boston 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
JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED)
Mary Clarke 2015 “The Digital Dilemma: Preservation and the Digital Archaeological Record.” Advances in Archaeological Practices 3(4): 313–330.
Mary Clarke In Review “Myth, Ritual, and the Classic Period Maya Sweat Bath” Manuscript submitted to RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics August 11, 2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
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.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Mary Clarke 2017 “Excavaciones en las Estructuras 12H27, 12H28, y 12H29,” In Proyecto Arqueologico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 14, Año 2017, edited by Boris Beltran, William Saturno, and Heather Hurst. Report to the Instituto de Antropologia e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
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, 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. 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). 2019 An Inconstant Landscape: The Archaeology of El Zotz, Guatemala. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Scherer, Andrew K., and Stephen D. Houston. 2018 “Blood, Fire, Death: Covenants and Crises among the Classic Maya,” In Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice, edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrew K. Scherer, pp. 109–150. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
Callaghan, Michael. 2016 “Estructura F-2,” In Proyecto Arqueologico Holtun: Informe de Resultados de Investigaciones Temporada de Campo No. 6, Año 2016, editded by Karla J. Cardona Caravantes, Michael Callaghan, and Brigitte Kovacevich, pp. 285–351. Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Thomas Garrison, Dustin Richmond, Perry Naughton, Eric Lo, Sabrina Trinh, Zachary Barnes, Albert Lin, Carl Schurgers, Ryan Kastner, and 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. 2015 Temple of the Night Sun: A Royal Tomb at El Diablo, Guatemala. Precolumbian 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.
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. “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.
FIELDWORK
2017– Director of Field and Laboratory Operations, Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun, Guatemala, Skidmore College
2016– Archaeological Illustrator, Proyecto Arqueológico Regional Holtun, Guatemala University of Central Florida
2014– Archaeologist, Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun, Guatemala Boston University and Skidmore College
2013–2014 Archaeological Illustrator, Proyecto Arqueológico el Zotz, Guatemala Brown University and University of Southern California
2012– Archaeological Illustrator, Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo-Xultun, Guatemala Boston University and Skidmore College
2011 Field School, Maya Research Program, Belize University of Texas, Tyler
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS/INVITED LECTURES
2019 Mary Clarke. “Myth, Ritual, and the Classic Period Maya Sweat Bath.” (Feb. 2019) Mesoamerican Center Colloquium Series, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin
2018 Mary Clarke and Ashley Sharpe. “Una Mirada Conjunta a la Fauna Asociada a un Baño de Vapor del Periodo Clásico en Xultun.” (Jul. 2018) Paper presented at the annual Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2017 Emmett Nahil and Mary Clarke. “Early Stages of Monument Production: New Evidence from Xultun.” (Apr. 2017) Paper presented at the Conference for the Society of American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2017 Mary Clarke and Franco Rossi. “Inequality and Gender in the Spaces of Craft Production.” (Apr. 2017) Paper presented at the Conference for the Society of American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2015 Mary Clarke. “The Digital Dilemma: Preservation and the Digital Archaeological Record.” Paper presented at the European Maya Conference, Bonn, Germany
2015 Mary Clarke and Gabriella Luna. “Interpretación de “Los Sapos”: Función y Significado detrâs del Baño de Vapor en el Sitio Arqueológico Xultun, Guatemala.” Paper presented at Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2015 Mary Clarke. “Performance at Los Sapos: Evaluating the Use of an Early Classic Period Sweatbath.” Paper presented at the Conference for the Society of American Archaeology, San Francisco, California
2014 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.” Paper presented at the Conference for the Society of American Archaeology, Austin, Texas
2013 Mary Clarke. “Iconographic Analysis of a Potential Sweat Bath at Xultún.” Paper presented at the Conference for the Society of American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2016 Boston University, Teaching Fellow AR 100: Great Discoveries in Archaeology (240) Professor: Franco Rossi, Fall
2016 Boston University, Teaching Fellow AR 503: Archaeological Field Methods: Survey and Excavation (8) AR 551: Maya Civilization (8) AR 556: Mesoamerican Archaeology (8) Professor: William Saturno, Petén, Guatemala, Spring
2015 Boston University, Teaching Fellow AR 251: Ancient Maya Civilization (35) Professor: William Saturno, Fall
2015 Boston University, Teaching Fellow AR 101: Introduction to Archaeology (95) Professor: Robert Murowcheck, Spring
2014 Boston University, Teaching Fellow AR 101: Introduction to Archaeology (120) Professor: David Carballo, Fall
2014 University of Southern California, Field and Lab Teaching Assistant ANTH 400: Maya Resilience (4) ANTH 450: Field Research in Maya Archaeology (3) Professor: Thomas Garrison, Antigua and Petén, Guatemala, Summer
2014 Boston University, Teaching Assistant AR 503: Archaeological Field Methods: Survey and Excavation (8) AR 551: Maya Civilization (8) AR 556: Mesoamerican Archaeology (8) Professor: William Saturno, Petén, Guatemala, Spring
2013 University of Southern California, Field and Lab Teaching Assistant ANTH 400: Maya Resilience (4) ANTH 450: Field Research in Maya Archaeology (3) Professor: Thomas Garrison, Antigua and Petén, Guatemala, Summer
SERVICE 2017 Alumni Mentor to the Department of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design
2015–2016 Brown Bag Lecture Series Organizer, Boston University
Manuscript Reviewer: Advances in Archaeological Practice and Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage.
MUSEUM AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
2017–Art Editor, Journal of Field Archaeology
2012–2014 Research Assistant and Digital Curation, Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Art, Boston