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Lic. Elías Alcocer
Lic. Elías Alcocer Puerto received an undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. He is a recent graduate of the Mérida-CINVESTAV masters program in Human Ecology and is currently a professor at La Universidad del Oriente in Valladolid, Yucatán. He continues to maintain research interests in the areas of cultural tourism and eco-tourism in the Peninsula.
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Dr. Lori Baker
Dr. Lori Baker directs the Ancient DNA Laboratory at Baylor University (lori.baker@baylor.edu) and is a member of the Anthropology and Forensics Department.
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Dr. Jason Barrett
Dr. Jason Barrett is an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University and an archaeologist with the Texas Department of Transportation. His archaeological experience includes work in Belize, Mexico, New England, Texas, and American Samoa. He is a lithic resource specialist and his research interests include political ecology, landscape archaeology, resource distribution networks, lithic technology, and ancient warfare. His dissertation explored the role of first-occupancy rights and strategic resource management in the development of social hierarchies in the Blue Creek community.
Recently, Jason has conducted excavations at stone tool production workshops and hinterland residences at the upper northwestern Belize sites of Bedrock and Bajo Vista, as well as the recently discovered site of Nojol Nah. This research has shown that lithic resources were significantly depleted in the region by the Terminal Classic period.
He will lead a research team during the first two sessions in the summer of 2008 with the goals of (1) mapping Nojol Nah, (2) dating the construction of architecture in the site’s monumental precinct, and (3) dating the construction of field walls and evaluating their possible use as defensive features.
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Dr. Grace Bascopé
Grace Lloyd Bascopé received her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from Southern Methodist University with a specialization in Medical Anthropology. She has taught numerous physical and cultural anthropology courses at Texas Christian University. She has conducted numerous studies in an indigenous community in the central part of the state of Yucatán, México for almost 20 years and ran the TCU ethnographic field school there. She has also worked in Honduras, South America and Jamaica. In Yucatán she worked with David Freidel and the SMU/Selz Foundation when they excavated a portion of the large ancient city of Yaxunah. She is the author of The Household Ecology of Disease Transmission: Childhood Illness in a Yucatán Maya Community and several articles and chapters on her research in Yaxunah.
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 Dr. Tim Beach
Dr. Tim Beach is the Director for the Center for the Environment and Associate Professor of Geography at Georgetown University. Tim is known for his work with soils in the Maya area and Turkey. He and Sheryl Luzzader-Beach have been working with the soils and agricultural systems at Blue Creek since 2000 (beacht@georgetown.edu).
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Dr. Steve Bozarth
Dr. Steve Bozarth is a Research Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. Dr. Bozarth has been studying microbotanical materials (polle and phytoliths), agriculture and ritual at Blue Creek for the past decade (sbozarth@ku.edu).
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 Pieta Greaves
Pieta Greaves has been the laboratory director at Blue Creek since 2005 and holds degrees in Archaeological Conservation from the University of Wales. When not in Belize, she works in the CRM industry in the Unithed Kingdom (jindiana@hotmail.com).
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 Dr. Thomas Guderjan
Tom Guderjan is President of MRP and Director of the Blue Creek project. While he has been a faculty member at St. Mary’s University and Texas Christian University, he now devotes full-time efforts to MRP and published a book, The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction and Power at Blue Creek, Belize. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa (2007) and a second edition of Ancient Maya Traders of Ambergris Caye (updated). University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa (2007). (guderjan@mrpmail.com)
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 Colleen Hanratty
Colleen Hanratty is a doctoral candidate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She has done archaeological work in the southeastern and southwestern US, Mexico, Peru and Belize. Her doctoral research is on the elite residences of Blue Creek.
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Barbara Hughes
Barbara Huges received Masters in Social Science from University of Colorado Denver in 2005 with a concentration in anthropololgy. She is currently teaching anthropology and sociology at Metropolitan State College of Denver and the Community College of Denver.
Barbara has traveled to Central America twice in the past 3 years visiting many Maya sites. Her primary research interests are gendered archaeology and women in positions of power, particularly in the Usumacinta/Pasion River region. She is also interested in identifying gender through social use of space and household archaeology. (hughesba@mscd.edu)
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Dr. Sheryl Luzzader-Beach
Dr. Sheryl Luzzader-Beach is an Associate Professor of Geography at George Mason University. She and Tim Beach have been working with soils and agriculture at Blue Creek since 2000 (slbeach@gmu.edu).
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Tim Preston
Tim Preston has been involved with the Maya Research program simce 2001 when he joined us as a volunteer. During that time he has worked on MRP projects in Belize, Mexico and Peru, both as a volunteer and as a staff member.
In 2007 he earned a Masters degree from San Francisco State University based on excavations he performed in the Rosita community, an outlying settlement linked to the Blue Creek site core. In 2008 Tim will continue his research at the site of Rosita. His focus will be on the societal changes that occurred at the end of the Mayan Classical period.
If you are interested in talking to Tim about his research, or if you would like to work along side him, feel free to send him an email.
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Steve Reichardt
Stephen is an archaeologist, GIS specialist, and
physical anthropologist with the cultural resources group at EcoPlan, an
environmental consulting firm in Arizona. He received his Masters in Physical
Anthropology from Arizona State University in 2000.
His current interests focus on computer based cartography, spatial analysis, design and creation of GIS databases, and the
application of GIS technologies in archaeology and cultural resource management.
Stephen’s future research will examine burial
practices at Blue Creek. sreichardt@ecoplanaz.com
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Steve Shaw
Steve Shaw in a senior member of SIG Intelligence and holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has been a member of the Blue Creek staff since 2005. (shaws2@aol.com)
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