SCOTT R. HUTSON
Department of Anthropology
211 Lafferty Hall, University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0024, (859) 257-9642
EDUCATION
2004: University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology
1999: University of California, Berkeley, M.A. Department of Anthropology
1995-1998: Vanderbilt University, Graduate Program in Anthropology
1995: Yale University, B. A., graduated cum laude with distinction in the major
(Latin American Studies).
SCHOLARLY APPOINTMENTS:
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky (2011-present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky (2007-2011)
Fellow, Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks (2005-2006)
Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz (2001, 2005).
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley (2000-2004).
Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University (1995-1998)
PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS AND JOURNAL SPECIAL SECTIONS
Hutson, Scott R. (editor)
in press Ancient Maya Commerce: Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil.
University Press of Colorado.
Hutson, Scott R.
2016 Ancient Urban Maya: Neighborhoods, Inequality and Built Form. University Press
of Florida, Gainesville
Hutson, Scott R., and Cynthia Robin (organizers)
2014 Households Make History in Ancient Mesoamerica. Special Section of Ancient
Mesoamerica, Cambridge University Press.
Hutson, Scott R.
2010: Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya: Relational Archaeology at Chunchucmil. Altamira
Press, Lanham, MD.
Ardren, Traci, and Scott R. Hutson (editors)
2006 The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
--Winner of the 2006 Eugene M. Kayden University Press of Colorado Book Award
--Released in paperback, 2015
Hodder, Ian, and Scott R. Hutson
2003 Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation, Third Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
--Translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Turkish.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND HONORS
2014 College of Arts and Sciences, Mini-Grant Award for Remote Sensing, Ucí-Cansahcab Regional Integration Project.” $2,793
2013 Inherit, Passed to Present, Bi-Directional Knowledge Exchange grant. Grant title: “Roots/Raíces: Maya Heritage in the Museo del Árbol, Ucí, Yucatan.”
2011 National Science Foundation, Archaeology Program: Collaborative Research: Ucí-Cansahcab Regional Integration Project.” $196,072. Co-PIs: Richard Terry, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach.
2011 Maya Area Cultural Heritage Institute, Bi-Directional grant: “Strengthening Identification between Ancient Ruins and the Communities of Ucí, Kancabal, and their Diaspora.” $4,711
2011: College of Arts and Sciences Research Activity Award, University of Kentucky, Foreign Travel Support for 3rd International Maya Symposium, Merida, Mexico: $1,150
2010: Wenner Gren Foundation, Post-PhD Research Grant for the Uci-Cansahcab Regional Integration Project. $16,300
2010: Selz Foundation, Funding in support of archaeological field research as part of the Ucí/Cansahcab Regional Integration Project, Yucatan, Mexico. $8,250
2010: Nominated for the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, Council of Graduate Schools.
2010: Nominated for the University of Kentucky Alumni Association Great Teacher Award
2010: Dumbarton Oaks non-residential one month research stipend, $3,000
2010: Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Kentucky, Summer Research Fellowship. Project name: “The Ucí/Cansahcab Regional Integration Project, Yucatan, Mexico.” A highly competitive grant, one of two awarded to College of Arts and Sciences faculty. $7,000.
2010: College of Arts and Sciences Research Activity Award, University of Kentucky, Foreign Travel Support for the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Merida, Mexico: $1,050
2009: Selz Foundation, Funding in support of archaeological field research as part of the Ucí/Cansahcab Regional Integration Project, Yucatan, Mexico. $4,000
2009: College of Arts and Sciences Research Activity Award, University of Kentucky, Mini Grant for archival research at the Peabody Museum of anthropology, Harvard University: $660
2008: National Geographic Society/Waitt Institute Grant, Project name: “Ancient Maya Political and Economic Transformations: Settlement Survey of the Ucí Intersite Causeway, Yucatan, Mexico.” $11,631
2008: College of Arts and Sciences Research Activity Award, University of Kentucky, Foreign Travel Support for World Archaeology Congress, Dublin, Ireland: $1,070
2008: Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Kentucky, Summer Research Fellowship. Project name: “Processes of Prehistoric Maya Transformation at Ucí-Cansahcab, Mexico.” $7,000
2008 College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky, 2008 Summer Research Fellowship. Project name: “Ancient Maya Political Landscapes: Yaxuna and Tzacauil, Yucatan, Mexico.” $5,000
2008: Selz Foundation, Funding in support of archaeological field research as part of the Political Interaction Project of Central Yucatan (with Travis Stanton and Aline Magnoni). $7,000
2007: College of Arts and Sciences Research Activity Award, University of Kentucky, Foreign Travel Support for the European Archaeology Association meetings, Zadar, Croatia, Mexico: $1,200
2007: College of Arts and Sciences Research Activity Award, University of Kentucky, Foreign Travel Support for Developing International Geoarchaeology conference, Cambridge, England: $800.
2006 Wenner Gren Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow (May 2006 to December 2006).
2005 Dumbarton Oaks Fellow in Precolumbian Studies (September 2005 to May 2006)
2005 Professional Development Grant, 2005, University of California at Santa Cruz. Funding for developing computer workshop lessons for teaching Quantitative Anthropology.
2003 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2003: Funding for soil chemistry and paleoethnobotanical analyses of archaeological materials. $12,000.
1999, 2003: Stahl Foundation grants for Archeological Research, UC Berkeley, X-ray Fluorescence for sourcing of obsidian artifacts from Chunchucmil (1999) and ceramic analysis (2003)
1996-2000: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.
1999: Tinker Summer Research Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley (1999).
1995-1998: University Graduate Fellow, Vanderbilt University, a university-wide fellowship awarded to less than ten percent of incoming graduate students.
1994: Albert Bildner Travel Prize for senior thesis research, Yale University. Awarded to one Latim American Studies student per year.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Hutson, Scott R., Barry Kidder, Celine Lamb, Daniel Vallejo-Cáliz, Jacob Welch
in press “Small Buildings and Small Budgets: Making LiDAR Work in Northern Yucatan,
Mexico.” Advances in Archaeological Practice.
Beach, Timothy, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Scott R. Hutson, Samantha Krause
2016 “Sky-earth, Lake-sea: Climate and Water in Maya History and Landscape.” Antiquity 90:
426-442
Hutson, Scott R.
2015 “Adapting LiDAR data for regional variation in the tropics: a case study from the
Northern Maya Lowlands.” Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 4:252-263.
Coronel, Eric, Scott R. Hutson, Aline Magnoni, Chris Balzotti, Austin Ulmer, and Richard Terry
2015 “Geochemical Analysis of Late Classic and Post Classic Maya Marketplace
Activities at the Plazas of Cobá, Mexico.” Journal of Field Archaeology 40(1):89-109.
Hutson, Scott R., and Jacob Welch
2014 “Sacred Landscapes and Building Practices at Ucí and Kancab, Yucatan, Mexico.” Ancient
Mesoamerica 25(2):421-439.
Hutson, Scott R., Galvin Can Herrera, Gabriel Adrian Chi
2013 “Maya Heritage Entangled and Transformed.” International Journal of Heritage
Studies 20(4):376-393.
Hutson, Scott R., Aline Magnoni, Travis Stanton
2012 “’All that is solid…’: Sacbes, Settlement and Semiotics at Tzacauil, Yucatan.” Ancient
Mesoamerica 23: 297-311.
Magnoni, A., S. R. Hutson and B. H. Dahlin
2012 Living in the City: Settlement Patterns and the Urban Experience at Classic Period Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 23:313-343.
Hutson, Scott R.
2011 “The Art of Becoming: The Graffiti of Tikal” Latin American Antiquity 22(4):403-426.
Hutson, Scott R., David Hixson, Aline Magnoni, Daniel Mazeau, Bruce Dahlin
2009 “Midiendo una Metrópolis: Metodología y Asentamiento en Chunchucmil, Yucatán.” Estudios de Cultura Maya 33:9-23.
Hutson, Scott R., Aline Magnoni, Richard Terry, Tim Beach, Bruce Dahlin, and Mary Jo Schabel
2009 “Phosphate Fractionation and Spatial Patterning in Ancient Ruins: A case study from Yucatan.” Catena 78:260-269
Hutson, Scott R., David Hixson, Aline Magnoni, Daniel Mazeau, Bruce Dahlin
2008 “City, Site, and Community: Nucleation and Dispersion at Chunchucmil and Classic Period Maya Urban Centers” Journal of Field Archaeology 33(1):19-40.
Hutson, Scott R., and Travis Stanton
2007 “Cultural Logic and Practical Reason: The Structure of Discard in Ancient Maya Houselots.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17(1):123-144.
Hutson, Scott R., Travis Stanton, Aline Magnoni, Richard Terry, and Jason Craner
2007 “Beyond the Buildings: Formation Processes of Ancient Maya Houselots and Methods for the Study of Non-architectural Space.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26:442- 473.
Magnoni, Aline, Traci Ardren, Scott R. Hutson
2007 “Tourism in the Mundo Maya: Inventions and (Mis)Representations of Maya Identities and Heritage.” Archaeologies 3(2): 353-383.
Hutson, Scott R., and Richard Terry
2006 “Recovering Social and Cultural Dynamics from Plaster Floors: Chemical Analyses at Ancient Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico”. Journal of Archaeological Science 33(3): 391- 404.
Hutson, Scott R.
2006 “Self-Citation in Archaeology: Age, Gender, Prestige, and the Self.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 13(1):1-18.
Dahlin, Bruce, Tim Beach, Sheryl Luzzader-Beach, David Hixson, Scott R. Hutson, Eugenia Mansell, Aline Magnoni, Daniel Mazeau
2005 “Reconstructing Agricultural Self-Sufficiency at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico.” Ancient Mesoamerica 16:229-247.
Hutson, Scott R., Aline Magnoni, Travis Stanton
2004 “House Rules?: The Practice of Social Organization at Chunchucmil, Yucatan.” Ancient Mesoamerica 15(1):72-91.
Hutson, Scott R.
2002 “Built Space and Bad Subjects: Domination and Resistance at Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico.” Journal of Social Archaeology 2:53-80.
Hutson, Scott R
2002 “Gendered Citation Practices in American Antiquity and other Archaeology Journals.” American Antiquity 67:331-342.
Hutson, Scott R., and Robert Markens
2002 “Rethinking Emic Pottery Classification” Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, 88:8- 27.
Hutson, Scott R.
2001 “Synergy through Disunity: Science as Social Practice: Comments on VanPool and VanPool.” American Antiquity 66(2):349-369.
Hutson, Scott R.
2000 “The Rave in Context: Spiritual Healing in Modern Western Subcultures.” Anthropological Quarterly 73(1):35-49.
Hutson, Scott R.
2000 “Control and Carnival in the Aztec Marketplace.” Dialectical Anthropology 24(4):123-149.
Hutson, Scott R.
1999, “Technoshamanism: Spiritual Healing in Rave Subculture.” Popular Music and Society 23(3): 53-77.
Hutson, Scott R.
1998 “Strategies for the Production of Prestige in Archaeological Discourse.” Assemblage 4, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~assem/4/
PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
Hutson, Scott R.
in press: Dos Transformaciones Pre-hispánicas por el Sacbé Uci-Cansahcab, Estado de
Yucatán. In Cuadernos: Perspectivas sobre interpretaciones de los usos y configuración del espacio Maya, edited by Ileana Edith Echáuri. UNAM, Mexico City.
Hutson, Scott R.
in press “Political Engagement in Household Ritual among the Maya of Yucatan.” In Beyond
Integration: Religion and Politics in the Precolumbian Americas, edited by Stacy Barber and Arthur Joyce. Routledge, London.
Hutson, Scott R., and Bruce Dahlin
in press “Introduction.” In Maya Market Economy: Multidisciplinary Research at
Ancient Chunchucmil, edited by Scott R. Hutson. University Pres of Colorado, Boulder.
Hutson, Scott R., Aline Magnoni, and Bruce Dahlin
in press “Architectural Group Typology and Excavation Sampling within Chunchucmil.” In
Maya Market Economy: Multidisciplinary Research at Ancient Chunchucmil, edited by Scott R. Hutson. University Pres of Colorado, Boulder.
Hutson, Scott R., and Aline Magnoni
in press “The Map of Chunchucmil.” In Maya Market Economy: Multidisciplinary Research at
Ancient Chunchucmil, edited by Scott R. Hutson. University Pres of Colorado, Boulder.
Hutson, Scott R., Aline Magnoni, Traci Ardren, and Chelsea Blackmore
in press “Chunchucmil’s Urban Population.” In Maya Market Economy: Multidisciplinary
Research at Ancient Chunchucmil, edited by Scott R. Hutson. University Pres of Colorado, Boulder.
Hutson, Scott R., Richard E. Terry, and Bruce H. Dahlin
in press “Marketing within Chunchucmil.” In Maya Market Economy: Multidisciplinary
Research at Ancient Chunchucmil, edited by Scott R. Hutson. University Pres of Colorado, Boulder.
Traci Ardren, Scott R. Hutson, David Hixson, Justin Lowry
in press “Connections beyond Chunchucmil.” In Maya Market Economy: Multidisciplinary
Research at Ancient Chunchucmil, edited by Scott R. Hutson. University Pres of Colorado, Boulder.
Hutson, Scott R.
in press “Conclusion.” In Maya Market Economy: Multidisciplinary Research at
Ancient Chunchucmil, edited by Scott R. Hutson. University Pres of Colorado, Boulder.
Hutson, Scott R.
in press: Dos Transformaciones Pre-hispánicas por el Sacbé Uci-Cansahcab, Estado de
Yucatán. In Cuadernos: Perspectivas sobre interpretaciones de los usos y configuración del espacio Maya, edited by Ileana Edith Echáuri. UNAM, Mexico City.
Hutson, Scott R.
2015 “Method and Theory for an Archaeology of Age.” In The Archaeology of Childhood:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Archaeological Enigma, edited by Guner Coskunsu, pp. 37-52. SUNY Press, Albany.
Hutson, Scott R., Iliana Ancona Aragón, Miguel Covarrubias Reyna, Zachary Larsen, Katie Lukach, Shannon E. Plank, Richard E. Terry and Willem Vanessendelft
2015 “A Historical Processual Approach to Continuity and Change in Classic and
Postclassic Yucatan.” In Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives in Resilience, Revitalization and Reorganization in Complex Societies, edited by Ronald Falseit, pp. 124-146. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Hutson, Scott R., and Gavin Davies
2015 “How Material Culture Acted on the Ancient Maya of Yucatan, Mexico.” In The
Materiality of Everyday Life, edited by Lisa Overholtzer and Cynthia Robin, pp. 10-26. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
Magnoni, A., T. Stanton and S. R. Hutson
2014 The Importance of Place and Memory in the Maya Past: The Variable Appropriation of Ancient Settlement at Chunchucmil and Yaxuna, Yucatan, during the Terminal Classic. In The Archaeology of Yucatan, edited by T. Stanton, pp. 457-466. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Hutson, S. R.
2014 Regional Integration Involving Uci and its Causeway. In The Archaeology of Yucatan, edited by T. Stanton, pp. 243-253. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Magnoni, Aline, Traci Ardren, Scott R. Hutson, Bruce H. Dahlin
2014 “Urban Identities: Social and Spatial Production at Classic Period Chunchucmil,
Yucatan, Mexico.” In Making Ancient Cities, edited by Andy Creekmore, pp145-80. Cambridge University Press
Huston, Scott R.
2014 “Artefactos prehispánicos de la Sierra Mixe.” In Panorama Arqueológico: Dos
Oaxacas, edited by Marcus Winter and Gonzalo Sánchez Santiago. Arqueología Oaxaqueña 4. Centro INAH Oaxaca.
Hutson, Scott R.
2013 “Recap: Four Reasons for Relationality.” In Classic Maya Political Ecology: Resource
Management, Class Histories, and Political Change in Northwestern Belize, edited by Jon
C. Lohse, pp. 211-25. Cotsen Institute for Archaeology, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Hutson, Scott R., K. Anne Pyburn, and Bryan K. Hanks
2013 “Gender, Power, and Politics in Early States.” In Companion to Gender Prehistory, edited by Diane Bolger, pp. 45-67. Blackwell, Oxford.
Hutson, S. R.
2012 “Unavoidable Imperfections”: Historical Contexts for Representing Ruined Maya Buildings. In The Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration in the Americas, edited by J. Pillsbury, pp. 282-316. Dumbarton Oaks and Harvard University Press, Washington D.C and Cambridge MA.