DRAFT Curriculum Vitae

Michael D. Carrasco

Last Revised: February 11, 2020

General Information

University address:	Art History
College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance
William Johnston Building 1019
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1233
Phone: (850) 644-1250; Fax: (850) 644-7065

E-mail address:	mcarrasco@fsu.edu

Web site:	http://arthistory.fsu.edu/People/Faculty/Faculty/Michael-D.-Carrasco2

Professional Preparation

2005	Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Major: Art History. Precolumbian. Supervisor: David S. Stuart (co-chair), Julia Guernsey (co-chair). 

Michael D. Carrasco. (2005). The Mask Flange Iconographic Complex: The Art, Ritual, and History of a Maya Sacred Image. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. 

1998	M.A., University of Texas at Austin. Major: Art History. Precolumbian. Supervisor: Linda Schele, Terrence Grieder. 

Michael D. Carrasco. (1998). Censing the Day, Censing the Night: Prolegomena to the Study of Palenque's Masked-Flanged Incensarios. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Texas at Austin. 

1995	B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. Major: Archaeology. Supervisor: Carla M. Antonaccio. Honors in General Scholarship. 

MichaelD. Carrasco. (1995). The Changing Faces of the Gods: Aesthetics, Spectacle, and Rulership Among the Ancient Maya. Unpublished bachelor's thesis, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. 

Professional Experience

2013–present	Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Florida State University. 

2007–2013	Assistant Professor, Art History, Florida State University. Responsible for teaching undergraduate upper-level surveys and graduate seminars in Mesoamerican art and culture, as well as serving as the Director of Graduate Studies and Director of the Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies program.

2006–2007	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, School of Art, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. 

2002–2003	Assistant Instructor, Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin. Responsible for teaching the Introduction to the Visual Arts undergraduate survey course.

2000–2002	Teaching Assistant, Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin. 

1995–1996	Assistant English Teacher, JET Program, Kamae Board of Education, Kamae, Oita-ken, Japan. 

1993–1994	Teaching Assistant for Printmaking, Department of Art and Art History, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. 

Language Proficiency

Ch'orti' Mayan - rudimentary in speaking and writing; intermediate in reading.
Epigraphic Mayan (Mayan Hieroglyphs) - none in speaking; fluent in reading; advanced in writing.
German - rudimentary in speaking and writing; intermediate in reading.
Japanese - intermediate in speaking, reading, and writing.
Spanish - intermediate in speaking and writing; advanced in reading.
Yucatec Mayan - intermediate in speaking and writing; advanced in reading.

Visiting Professorship(s)

2003–2006	Luther Gregg Sullivan Visiting Scholar in Art History, Department of Art and Art History, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. 

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

New Media Consortium 2005 Center of Excellence Award (2005). 
Adobe Systems, Inc. and New Media Consortium curricular development grant (2004). 
Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and U.S. Department of Education (2004). 
College of Fine Arts Dean's Travel Fund, University of Texas at Austin (2001). 
Donna and Jack S. Josey Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Art History, University of Texas at Austin (2001). 
1998-2000 David Bruton, Jr. Endowed Graduate Fellowship in the College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin (2000). 
College of Fine Arts Dean's Travel Fund, University of Texas at Austin (2000). 
Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), University of Texas at Austin and U.S. Department of Education (2000). 
Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and U.S. Department of Education (2000). 
Susan Vaughan Foundation Endowed Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin (2000). 
Department of Art and Art History Travel Grant, University of Texas at Austin (1999). 
1996-1998 Graduate Opportunities Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (1998). 
Department of Art and Art History Travel and Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin (1997). 
1991-1995 J. Gomez-Ibanez Scholarship, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (1995). 
Honors in General Scholarship, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (1995). 

Fellowship(s)

NEH Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (2016–2017).

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

American Anthropological Association 
College Art Association 
Society of American Archaeology 

Teaching

Courses Taught

Pre-Columbian Ceramics (ARH5806)
Cultural Heritage Theory and Practice (ARH5799)
The Art and Culture of the Maya (ARH4675)
The Ecology of Images (ARH5806)
Maya Art and Ritual (ARH4800)
Palenque and the Classic Maya World (ARH 5806)
Visual Cultures of the Americas (ARH3612)
Digital Documentation and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (ARH 5806)
Formative Period Art and Culture (ARH 5806)
Representation and Reality: The Sacred Image in Mesoamerica (ARH6936)
The Nahua and Sixteenth Century Mexico (ARH5806)
Mayan Epigraphy (ARH6936)
Honors Work in Art History (ARH4815)
Maya Painted Ceramics (ARH5806)
Great Traditions in Mesoamerican Art and Culture (ARH4653)
Mesoamerican Manuscripts (ARH5806)
Special Topics in Art History (ARH4933)
Art History Methods and Media (ARH4810)
Art History Methods Seminar (ARH4810)
Graduate Research Writing Colloquium
The Nahua and Sixteenth Century Mexico (ARH4933)
The Representation of the "Natural World" and Foodways in Mesoamerican Art

New Course Development

Digital Documentation and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (2015)
Cultural Heritage Theory and Practice (2010)
Maya Painted Ceramics (2010)
Mayan Epigraphy (2010)
Mesoamerican Manuscripts (2009)
The Nahua and Sixteenth Century Mexico (2008)

Curriculum Development

Developed the combined BA/MA program in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies. The program was approved in Spring 2016 (2015)
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Curricular Design. Worked with The Ringling to design the curriculum for the year students in the Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies MA program spend in residency at the museum (2014-Present) (2014)
Letchworth Love Mound Archaeological Field School. Worked with the Florida Department of State to establish an archaeological field school in support of the Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies MA and the greater FSU academic community involved in archaeological research and practice (2013)
Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies Master's of Arts program in the Department of Art History. During the summer and fall of 2010 I worked with departmental colleagues and those from other departments and professionals in archaeology from the Bureau of Archaeological Research and the Southeastern Archaeological Center to develop a new MA in Museum and Cultural Heritage studies (2010)
Visual Cultures of the Americas Area of Study. During 2009-2010 I worked with departmental colleagues to develop the Visual Cultures of the Americas as field of study. This area of study provides students with a broad foundation in the artistic expressions of the Western Hemisphere from the ancient period to the present, as well as requiring a specific area of focus developed in consultation with their faculty adviser (2009)

Doctoral Committee Chair

Batuhan, T., graduate. (2018). Museums in the Construction of National Identity in Twentieth Century Mexico and Turkey. 
Wolff, L. A., graduate. (2018). ¡Guerra al metate! The Visuality of Foodways in Postrevolutionary Mexico City (1920 – 1960). 
Peterson, K. M., graduate. (2017). Consumption and Construction: Devotional Images and the Place of Empire in Postclassic Mexico, 1325 – 1521. 
Schaeffer, D. B., graduate. (2017). Sojourn to the Sun God: Places of Travel in Mixtec Codices. 
Lundy, H. D., graduate. (2016). Architecture and Placemaking at a Northern Maya City: Ek' Balam and the Question of Style. 
Germana Roquez, G., doctoral student.  Doing It Their Own Way: From Traditional Aesthetics to Artistic Images. The Paintings of Sarhua, Peru. 

Doctoral Committee Cochair

Steinhilper, D. M., graduate. (2013). Identity and Empire in Colonial Maps of Mexico, 1524-1600. 

Doctoral Committee Member

McCormick, A. M., graduate. (2013).
Englehardt, J. D., graduate. (2011). Archaeological Epigraphy and Epigraphic Archaeology: Tracing the Development of the Maya Script via Material Remains. (Department of Anthropology). 
Seinfeld, D. M., graduate. (2011). Macrobotanical and Isotope Residue Analysis from San Estevan. (Department of Anthropology). 
Olton, E., graduate. (2010). K'inich Janaab Pakal's Temple of Inscriptions, Palenque. (Department of Art History, University of New Mexico). 
Gunther, M. L., doctoral candidate.  Architecture, Urban Space, and Imperial Power: the Construction of Colonial Administration and Reform in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico. 
Thames, E. K., doctoral candidate.  The Life and Art of José Campeche: Enlightenment, Reform, and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico. 

Doctoral Committee University Representative

Glennie, A. E., doctoral candidate.  Waterscapes of Cosa: Water Collection, Storage, and Usage at Cosa in the Roman Republican and Imperial Periods. 
Mitchell, J., doctoral candidate. 

Master's Committee Chair

Kindrick, J., graduate. (2014).
Spraggins, E., graduate. (2013).
Wolff, L. A., graduate. (2013).
McCampbell, K. G., graduate. (2010). The Iconography and Ritual Use of Highland Maya Effigy Funerary Urns. 

Master's Committee Member

Higbee, L. G., graduate. (2013). New Topographics and Generic Transformation in Landscape Photography of the 1970s. 
Glover, C. M., graduate. (2012). Anni Albers's Modernist Philosophy in Thread and Text. 
Bender, S. D., graduate. (2010). Lust-Murder in the Weimar Avant-Garde: The Lustmord Paintings of George Grosz and Otto Dix. 
Matthews, T. M., graduate. (2010). Cognition and Sculpted Space: Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate. 
Weatherby, S., graduate. (2010). The Ceramic Figurines of La Venta. 
MacKey, R. A., graduate. (2009). "All that Glitters is not Junkanoo": The National Junkanoo Museum and the Politics of Tourism and Identity. 
Hostetler, B. A., graduate. (2009). The Art of Gift-giving: the Multivalency of Votive Dedications in the Middle Byzantine Period. 

Bachelor's Committee Chair

Arrant, M., graduate. (2011). Parallel Images: Gender, Complementarity, and Ritual in the Imagery of Lady K'abal Xook, Lady Mut Bahlam, and Lady Wak Tuun. 
Winfield, S., graduate. (2011). Botanical Study of the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. 

Bachelor's Committee Member

Sherman, L., graduate. (2010). Italian Futurism and the "Mob Mentality". 
Khimm, M., graduate. (2005). With the Bereaved in Mind: Stockholm's Woodland Cemetery and Crematorium. 

Supervision of Student Research Not Related to Thesis or Dissertation

Arrant, M. (Jan–May 2012). 

Research and Original Creative Work

Publications

Invited Journal Articles

Carrasco, M. D. (2012). 玛雅农业神话：玉米和人的生命轮回 [ Mǎyǎ nóngyè shénhuà: Yùmǐ hé rén de shēngmìng lúnhuí, Mayan Agrarian Mythologies: The Lifecycle of Maize and Humans]. 世界宗教文化 [Shìjiè zōngjiào wénhuà, The World Religious Cultures], 76, 18-24.

Refereed Journal Articles

Englehardt, J., Insaurralde Caballero, M., Melgar Tísoc, E., Velázquez Maldonado, L., Guzmán Torres, V., Bernard, H., & Carrasco, M. D. (2019). Digital Imaging and Archaeometric Analysis of the Cascajal Block: Establishing Context and Authenticity for the Earliest Known Olmec Text. Ancient Mesoamerica, 1-21. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ancient-mesoamerica/article/digital-imaging-and-archaeometric-analysis-of-the-cascajal-block-establishing-context-and-authenticity-for-the-earliest-known-olmec- doi:10.1017/S0956536119000257

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (2017). Representación y realidad: El objeto arqueológico en la era de reproducibilidad digital. Revista Digital Universitaria, 18(1). Retrieved from http://www.revista.unam.mx/vol.18/num1/art07/

Carrasco, M. D., & Englehardt, J. (2015). Diphrastic Kennings on the Cascajal Block and the Emergence of Mesoamerican Writing. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 25, 635-656. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S09597743

Hull, K. M., Carrasco, M. D., & Wald, R. (2009). The First-Person-Singular Independent Pronoun in Classic Ch'olan. Mexicon, 31(2), 36-43.

Carrasco, M. D., & Hull, K. M. (2002). The Cosmogonic Symbolism of the Corbeled Vault in Maya Architecture. Mexicon, 24(2), 26-32.

Refereed Books

Carrasco, M. D. (contract). Of How they Pleased the Hearts of their Gods: Myth, Ritual, and the Sacred Image in Maya and Mesoamerican History. Manuscript under contract for publication, Boulder: University Press of Colorado (approximately 90,000 words). 

Edited Books

Carrasco, M., Englehardt, J., Cibrián-Jaramillo, A., & Bonta, M. (Eds.). (contract). Under the Shade of Thipak: Cycads, Humans, and Maize in Mesoamerican Ethnoecological and Agroecological Systems. Manuscript under contract for publication, University Press of Florida. 

Carrasco, M., & Werness-Rude, M. (Eds.). (contract). Mesoamerican Ceramics: Form, Meaning, and Function. Manuscript under contract for publication, New York: Springer. 

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (Eds.). (2019). Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 

Niell, P., Carrasco, M., & Wolff, L. (Eds.). (2018). Decolonizing Refinement: Contemporary Pursuits in the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié. Tallahassee: Florida State Museum of Fine Arts. 

Hull, K. M., & Carrasco, M. D. (Eds.). (2012). Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial and Classic Maya Literature. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. Retrieved from http://www.upcolorado.com/book/Parallel_Worlds

Staller, J. E., & Carrasco, M. D. (Eds.). (2010). Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture and Markets in Mesoamerica. New York: Springer. 

Refereed Book Chapters

Werness-Rude, M., & Carrasco, M. (contract). Introduction: Defining Mesoamerican Ceramic Traditions. Manuscript under contract for publication, New York: Springer. 

Carrasco, M., & Werness-Rude, M. (contract). Mesoamerican Ceramic Incensarios. Manuscript under contract for publication, New York: Springer. 

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (2019). Introduction: Interaction and Dynamic Cultural Process in Ancient Mesoamerica. In Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (2019). The Role of Interregional Interaction in Mesoamerican Script Development. In Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 

Carrasco, M. (2018). Intertextuality in Classic Maya Ceramic Art and Writing: The Interplay of Myth and History on the Regal Rabbit Vase. In Yumi Park, Dean Arnold, & Johanna Minich (Eds.), Ceramics of Ancient America: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Retrieved from http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813056067

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (2018). Representación Densa: Topofilia y Traslape Conceptual entre Imágenes de la Vida Acuática en el Arte Olmeca. In Lourdes Budar Jimenez (Ed.), Administración, Control y Representación del Agua en la Costa del Golfo Mesoamericano. Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana. 

Englehardt, J., Carrasco, M., & Pohl, M. (2017). Nuevas Trazas de La Cultura Visual Olmeca: Las Potencialidades de la Aplicación de Técnicas Digitales de Visualización en la Arqueología. In Lourdes Budar Jiménez, Marcie Venter, & Sara Ladrón de Guevara (Eds.), Arqueología de la Costa del Golfo. Dinámicas de la Interacción Política, Económica e Ideológica. Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2015). Epilogue: Portals, Turtles, and Mythic Places. In Maline Werness, & Kaylee Spencer (Eds.), Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History: Maya Art, Architecture, and Activity (pp. 374-411). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 

Carrasco, M. D., & Hull, K. M. (2012). Introduction. In Hull, K. M., & Carrasco, M. D. (Eds.), Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial and Classic Maya Literature (pp. 1-17). Boulder:University Press of Colorado. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2012). Performance, Presence, and Genre in Maya Hieroglyphs. In Englehardt, J. (Ed.), Early Writing and Agency: Epigraphy and Agents in the Archaeological Record (pp. 139-63). Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2012). The History, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Three Palenque Narratives. In Hull, K. M., & Carrasco, M. D. (Eds.), Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial and Classic Maya Literature (pp. 123-160). Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2010). From Field to Hearth: An Earthly Interpretation of Maya and other Mesoamerican Creation Myths. In Staller, J., & Carrasco, M. D. (Eds.), Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Mesoamerica (pp. 601-634). Springer, New York. 

Staller, J., & Carrasco, M. D. (2010). Pre-Columbian Foodways in Mesoamerica. In Staller, J., & Carrasco, M. D. (Eds.), Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Mesoamerica (pp. 1-20). Springer, New York. 

Refereed Proceedings

Carrasco, M. (submitted). Cycads, Maize, and Garfish: The Representation of Ethnoecological Systems in Olmec Iconography. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Carrasco, M., & Englehardt, J. (in press). Conventions and Linguistic Tropes in Olmec Art and Writing. In Kuang Yu Chen, & Dietrich Tschanz (Eds.), The Chinese Writing System and its Dialogue with Sumerian, Egyptian, and Mesoamerican Writing Systems. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (in press). La Escritura Olmeca y el Surgimiento de Tradiciones Textuales en Mesoamérica. In Proceedings of the XXXVIII Coloquio de Antropología e Historia Regionales, El Colegio de Michoacán Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico. Michoacán, Mexico: El Colegio de Michoacán. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2005). A Maya Cosmogram: The Changing Styles and Contexts of the Mask-Flange Iconographic Complex. In Waters-Rist, A., Cluney, C., McNamee, C., & Steinbrenner, C. (Eds.), Proceeding of the 33rd Annual Chacmool Conference (pp. 203-210). Calgary: Chacmool, The Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary. 

Hull, K. M., & Carrasco, M. D. (2004). Mak-"Portal" Rituals Uncovered: An Approach to Interpreting Symbolic Architecture and the Creation of Sacred Space Among the Maya. In Behrens, D. G., Grube, N., Prager, C. M., Sache, F., Teufel, S., & Wagner, E. (Eds.), Continuity and Change: Maya Religious Practices in Temporal Perspective, 5th European Maya Conference (pp. 131-142). Bonn: Verlag Anton Saurwein. 

Invited Reviews

Carrasco, M. (2017). Carolyn E. Tate. Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture: The Unborn, Women, and Creation. College Art Association (CAA) Online Reviews. Retrieved from http://caareviews.org/reviews/2071#.W6KCAf5KjrI

Carrasco, M. (2015). Mary E. Miller and Megan E. O'Neil, Maya Art and Architecture. Latin American Antiquity, 26(3), 425-426.

Carrasco, M. (2014). The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Collections Online—http://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8080/peabody/ and the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions—https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/CMHI/. Visual Resources, 30(2), 166-170.

Carrasco, M. (2012). Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 22(3), 427-429.

Carrasco, M. (2009). Annabeth Headrick, The Teotihuacan Trinity: The Sociopolitical structure of an ancient Mesoamerican city. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15, 633-634.

Refereed Newsletter Articles

Carrasco, M. D. (1998). The Incensario Stands of Palenque. Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute Newsletter, 25(9), 6.

Nonrefereed Journal Articles

Englehardt, J. D., & Carrasco, M. D. (2013). The Road to Cascajal. Red Patrimonio, Revista Digital de Estudios en Patrimonio Cultural, 1:3, 84-94. Retrieved from www.colmich.edu.mx/red

Carrasco, M. D. (2012). Embodying Chance: Recent Work by Holly Hanessian. Ceramics: Art and Perception, No. 91, 24-27.

Nonrefereed Book Chapters

Wolff, L., Carrasco, M., & Niell, P. (2018). Rituals of Refinement: Edouard Duval-Carrié's Historical Pursuits. In Paul Niell, Michael D. Carrasco, & Lesley Wolff (Eds.), Decolonizing Refinement: Contemporary Pursuits in the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié. Tallahassee: Florida State Museum of Fine Arts. 

Presentations

Invited Papers at Conferences

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2012, March). When are Glyphic Narratives Poetry?: The Case for Large-Scale Structures in Mayan Literature. Paper presented at 36th Annual Maya Meetings, the University of Texas at Austin, Antigua, Guatemala. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2008, October). Del pincel de pintor de piedra a los cuentos de la milpa: Continuidad en la literature maya. Paper presented at Workshop on Mayan Hieroglyphs, Universidad de Oriente, Valladolid, Yucatán, Mexico. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2007, May). Pleasing the Hearts of their Gods: The Architectural, Sculptural, and Literary Legacy of K'inich Janaab Pakal and K'inich Kan B'ahlam. Paper presented at Maya Society of Minnesota Meeting, Maya Society of Minnesota. (Regional)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2005, March). The Domestic and the Divine: A Classic Maya Temple Complex at Palenque. Paper presented at Department of Art and Art History, Wesleyan University. (Local)

Wald, R., & Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2004, March). Rabbits, Gods, and Kings: The Interplay of Myth and History on the Regal Rabbit Vase. Paper presented at 28th Annual Maya Meetings, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2002, March). Art and Divinity: The Ritual and Stylistic Development of the Incensarios of Palenque. Paper presented at 26th Annual Maya Meetings, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2001, March). The Iconographic Relationship Between Formative and Early Classic Mask Programs and Classic Period Incensarios at Palenque. Paper presented at 25th Annual Maya Meetings, Late Preclassic Work Group. (National)

Invited Papers at Symposia

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (presented 2016, October). La Escritura Olmeca y el Surgimiento de Tradiciones Textuales en Mesoamérica. In XXXVIII Coloquio de Antropología e Historia Regionales. Symposium conducted at the meeting of El Colegio de Michoacán Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico. (International)

Carrasco, M., & Englehardt, J. (presented 2015, May). Conventions and Linguistic Tropes in Olmec Art and Writing. In The Chinese Writing System and its Dialogue with Sumerian, Egyptian, and Mesoamerican Writing Systems. Symposium conducted at the meeting of The Chinese Studies Program and Confucius Institute of Rutgers University (CIRU), Rutgers-New Brunswick. (International)

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (presented 2013, August). Difrasismos en el Arte y Escritura Olmeca: El Bloque de Cascajal y los Origines de la Escritura Mesoamericana. In Arqueología y Arte de Arroyo Pesquero-Los Soldados. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2012, July). Mayan Sacred Images: Animacy, Ritual, and Devotion in the Classic Period. In Michelle Briggs (Chair), The Maya: An examination of Mayan history and culture from the rise of their civilization to the post-conquest era. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. (Regional)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2011, October). The Rhetoric of Violence and Sacrifice in Maya Art and Writing. In Politics and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean. Symposium conducted at the meeting of The Center for Humanities and Society, Florida State University, The Florida State University. (Local)

Refereed Papers at Conferences

Carrasco, M., & Englehardt, J. (presented 2018, September). Agroecological Heritage: Cycads, Humans, and Maize in Indigenous Mesoamerican Epistemologies. Paper presented at 4th Biannual Conference, Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. (International)

Carrasco, M., Niell, P., & Wolff, L. (presented 2018, September). Curating the Caribbean: Unsettling the Boundaries of Art and Artifact. Paper presented at 4th Biannual Conference, Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. (International)

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (presented 2018, April). Transformation of the Gods: Symmetry and the Construction of Mesoamerican Deity Systems in the Middle Formative. Paper presented at 83th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Washington D.C. (International)

Carrasco, M. (presented 2017, November). From the Stone Painter's Brush: Chiastic Structures in Classic Maya Poetics. Paper presented at 50th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (International)

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (presented 2016, September). Digitizing Olmec Culture: The Potentialities and Ethics of 3D Modeling of Archaeological Objects. Paper presented at 8th World Archaeological Congress, World Archaeological Congress, Kyoto, Japan. (International) Retrieved from http://wac8.org/

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (presented 2016, September). Las Potencialidades y Consideraciones Éticas de la Aplicación de Técnicas Digitales de Visualización en la Arqueología. Paper presented at 3er Encuentro de Humanistas Digitales, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico. (International)

Carrasco, M., & Englehardt, J. (presented 2016, September). Representation and Reality: Issues in the visualization of Archaeological Knowledge. Paper presented at 8th World Archaeological Congress, World Archaeological Congress, Kyoto, Japan. (International) Retrieved from http://wac8.org/

Carrasco, M., & Englehardt, J. (presented 2016, April). New Perspectives on Gulf Coast Olmec Iconography and Scripts via the Mesoamerican Corpus of Formative Period Art and Writing. Paper presented at 81th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. (International)

Carrasco, M. (presented 2016, April). The "Problem" in the Ecology of Images. Paper presented at 81th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida, Orlando, Florida. (International)

Carrasco, M. (presented 2015, August). Cycads, Maize, and Garfish: The Representation of Ethnoecological Systems in Olmec Iconography. Paper presented at 10th International Conference on Cycad Biology, Cycad Society, Medellín, Colombia. (International)

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (presented 2015, April). Formative Period Interregional Interaction and the Emergence of Mesoamerican Scripts. Paper presented at 80th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. (International)

Carrasco, M. (presented 2015, February). Path to Decipherment: International Collaborative Research on Olmec Art and Writing. Paper presented at 103rd Annual Meeting, College Art Association, New York, New York. (International)

Englehardt, J., & Carrasco, M. (presented 2014, April). Diphrastic Kennings in Formative Period Art: Olmec Iconography, Grammatical Encoding, and the Emergence of Mesoamerican Writing. Paper presented at 79th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2012, April). Intertextuality in Maya Ceramic Art and Writing. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2011, November). We Eat of the Earth and the Earth Eats of Us: The Representation of Ethnoecological Systems in Mesoamerica. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (International)

Carrasco, M. D., & Englehardt, J. (presented 2011, April). The Cascajal Block and the Olmec Origins of Mesoamerican Writing. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meetings, Society of American Archaeology, Sacramento, California. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2009, April). Performativity and Presence in Maya Hieroglyphs. Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting, Society of American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2008, November). The Poetics and Rhetoric of the Temple of Inscriptions Narrative. Paper presented at the 107th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2007, November). From Field to Hearth: An Earthly Interpretation of Maya Mythology. Paper presented at 40th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (International)

Carrasco, M. D., & Loyer, A. (presented 2007, April). Unaahil B'aak: A Look at the Ancient Maya City of Palenque through the Digital Lens. Paper presented at 72nd Annual Meeting, the Society of American Archaeology, Austin, Texas. (International)

Carrasco, M. D., & Blunk, W. (presented 2005, December). B'oox Kib': The Black Wax Guardians of Yucatecan Milpas. Paper presented at the 104th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2005, November). Incensarios, Icons, and Sacral Presence: Some Observations on the use of sacred objects in the history of Palenque. Paper presented at the 38th Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2004, November). In the House of Cool Women and Hot Men: Parentage Statements, Engendered Language, and the Maya's Conception of Creation in Darkness. Paper presented at 37th Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2003, November). Compound and Complex Noun Formation in Hieroglyphic Mayan. Paper presented at the 103rd Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois. (National)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2003, November). Water in Classic Period Creation Mythology, Imagery, and Liturgy. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2003, February). Singing in the Black Speared Earth Cave: Emic Conceptions of Caves among the Classic Maya. Paper presented at the 24nd Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. (National)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2001, March). Hearth, Seeds, and Skulls: The Cosmogonic Symbolism of the Maya Tomb. Paper presented at the 24th, Midwest Mesoamericanists Meeting, University of Iowa, Iowa City. (Regional)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2001, February). Dressing for the Occasion: Gender and Ritual in Classic Period Maya Art. Paper presented at the 22nd Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. (National)

Carrasco, M. D., & Hull, K. M. (presented 2000, December). Mak-"Portal" Rituals Uncovered: An Approach to Interpreting Symbolic Architecture and the Creation of Sacred Space Among the Maya. Paper presented at the 5th European Maya Conference, University of Bonn, Germany. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 2000, November). A Maya Cosmogram: The Changing Styles and Contexts of the Mask-Flange Iconographic Complex. Paper presented at the 33rd Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Canada. (International)

Carrasco, M. D., & Hull, K. M. (presented 2000, March). Framing the Portal: An Epigraphic, Iconographic, and Contextual Analysis of the Painted Capstones of the Yucatan. Paper presented at the 23rd Midwest Mesoamericanists Meeting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois. (Regional)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 1999, November). Rituals of Dedication, Rituals of Renewal. Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting, the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 1999, March). Censing the Day, Censing the Night: The Masked-Flanged Incensarios of Palenque. Paper presented at the 22nd Midwest Mesoamericanists Meeting, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois. (Regional)

Refereed Papers at Symposia

Carrasco, M. D. (presented 1997, March). The Epiphenomenal Architecture of the Chaco Phenomenon. In the Eleanor Greenhill Graduate Symposium. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Department of Art History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. (Local)

Invited Keynote and Plenary Presentations at Symposia

Carrasco, M. (presented 2015, October). Mesoamerican Ethnotaxonomies and the Iconology of Maize and Cycads. Keynote presentation in María Teresa Pulido Silva (Chair), Primer Simposio Nacional de Etnobotánica y Ecología de Cícadas. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, Hidalgo. (International) Retrieved from http://www.scme.mx/scme/images/pdf-eventos/Invitacion_Simposio_Cicadas.pdf

Invited Workshops

Carrasco, M. D. (2008). Los Glyphos de los Antiguos Mayas. Workshop delivered at Universidad de Oriente, Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (2004). Ko'ox Xokik le Úuchben Ts'íibil Maaya T'aane': An Introduction to Epigraphic Mayan. Workshop delivered at The Consortium in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University and the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. (International)

Nonrefereed Workshops

Carrasco, M. D. (2007). Hieroglyphic Workshop on Palenque. Workshop delivered at the Maya Society of Minnesota, Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota. (Regional)

Carrasco, M. D. (2005). Long Workshop. Workshop delivered at the 29th Annual Maya Meetings, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (2002). Long Workshop. Workshop delivered at 26th Annual Maya Meetings, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. (International)

Carrasco, M. D. (2002). Maya Hieroglyphic Weekend Workshop. Workshop delivered at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. (Regional)

Carrasco, M. D. (2001). Maya Hieroglyphic Weekend Workshop. Workshop delivered at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. (Regional)

Carrasco, M. D. (2000). Hieroglyphic Weekend Workshop. Workshop delivered at Maya Hieroglyphic Weekend Workshop, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. (Regional)

Invited Lectures and Readings of Original Work

Carrasco, M., & Englehardt, J. (2018, September). The Digitization of Ancient Olmec Art and Culture [古代奥尔梅克艺术与文字的数字化, Gǔdài àoěrméikè yìshù yǔ wénzì de shùzìhuà]. Delivered at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, School of Art and Design, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics. (International) Retrieved from http://www.njue.edu.cn/d?portalId=ncExternalPortal&columnId=xsjw_news&infoType=NEWS&infoId=27031

Carrasco, M. (2016, February). The Road to Cascajal: Digital Technologies in the Documentation of Olmec Art and Writing. Delivered at Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut. (Regional) Retrieved from http://www.easternct.edu/pressreleases/2016/02/17/eastern-welcomes-michael-carrasco-to-the-new-fine-arts-building/

Digital Projects

Refereed Digital Projects

Carrasco, M. D., & Learning Objects Studio. (Project Director and Content contributor). (2004–2006). Unaahil B'aak: The Temples of Palenque [Website]. Wesleyan University, New Media Consortium, and Adobe Systems, Inc.  Retrieved from http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/palenque/

Contracts and Grants

Contracts and Grants Funded

Carrasco, M. (May 2018–May 2019). Japanese Ceramic and Bamboo Art: Tradition, Heritage, and the Global Contemporary. Funded by Planning Grant, The Florida State University Council of Research and Creativity (CRC). Total award $13,000. 

Carrasco, M. (Oct 2017–Nov 2017). Oita's Bamboo Arts and Heritage. Funded by The Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR). Total award $4,000. 

Cibaron, A., Bonta, M., Carrasco, M., Moreno, A., & Englehart, J. (2016–2018). Fronteras de la Ciencia: Cícadas y la Domesticación de Maíz en el Paisaje Mesoamericano: Elucidando una Relación Milenaria Mediante la Genómica, la Arqueología y la Geografía Cultural [Cycads and the Domestication of Maize in the Mesoamerican Landscape: Elucidating a Millenary Relationship through Genomics, Archae. Funded by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. (2015-02-901). Total award $239,000. 

Carrasco, Michael D (PI). (May 2015–Aug 2015). COFRS: An Anthology of Classic Maya Literature. Funded by FSU CRC. Total award $14,000. 

Steppan, Scott (Co-PI), Erickson, Gregory M (Co-PI), Carrasco, Michael D (Co-PI), & Slice, Dennis E (PI). (May 2015–Apr 2016). EIEG: 3D Surface Scanning Systems for Morphometric Data Acquisition. Funded by FSU EIEG Award. Total award $16,600. 

Carrasco, Michael D (PI), Englehardt, Joshua (Co-PI), & Slice, Dennis E (Co-PI). (May 2014–Sep 2015). NEH Digital Humanities Start Up Grant Level II: The Mesoamerican Corpus of Formative Period Art and Writing. Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities. (HD-51921-14). Total award $59,993. 

Carrasco, M., & Englehardt, J. (May 2012–Dec 2012). Planning Grant: The Middle Formative Olmec Iconographic Digital Database. Funded by The Florida State University Council of Research and Creativity (CRC). Total award $12,000. 

Pohl, M., von Nagy, C., Schmit-Schoenberg, P., & Carrasco, M. (2012–2017). NEH Collaborative Research Grant: Origins of the Mesoamerican City. Ritual and Polity at La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico. Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities. (RZ-51497-12). Total award $280,000. 

Carrasco, M. (2011–2012). Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature. Funded by The Florida State University Council of Research and Creativity (CRC). Total award $3,000. 

Carrasco, M. (May 2010–Aug 2010). COFRS: Performance, Presence, and Genre in Maya Hieroglyphs. Funded by The Florida State University Council of Research and Creativity (CRC). Total award $14,000. 

Carrasco, Michael D (PI). (May 2008–Aug 2008). FYAP Icons, Relics & Sacral Presence in Mesoamerican Art. Funded by FSU CRC. Total award $16,000. 

Additional Research or Original Creative Work Not Reported Elsewhere

Carrasco, M. D. (2007). Field Research - Guatemala, photographic documentation of archaeological sites and anthropological research in the Ch'orti' Mayan speaking area. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2006). Field Research - Yucatan, Santa Elena collection of oral narratives. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2005). Field Research - Yucatan, Mexico on Folklore and Yucatec Mayan language. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2004). Field Research - Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, photographic documentation of architecture. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2004). Field Research - Yucatan, Santa Elena and Xocen on Yucatec Mayan language. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2001). Field Research - Copan, Honduras, photographic documentation of Copan Sculpture. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2000). Field Research - Antigua, Guatemala on Ch'orti' Mayan language. 

Carrasco, M. D. (2000). Field Research - Xocen, Mexico on Yucatec architectural terminology and related symbolism. 

Carrasco, M. D. (1997). Field Research - Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, photographic documentation of Palenque incensarios. 

Carrasco, M. D. (1992). Field Research - Soissons, France, Student excavator on the Wesleyan-Brown Archaeology Project at the Medieval abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes. 

Service

Florida State University

FSU University Service

Committee member, Steering committee member for the Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities MA in Digital Humanities (2015–present).

FSU representative, Florida Digital Humanities Executive Council (2014–2015).

Committee Member, Working Group: Partnership Opportunity with Secretary of State (2013–2014).

FSU College Service

Committee Member, College of Fine Arts Dean's Search Committee (2018–present).

Committee Member, Advisory Board, The Facility for Arts Research (2011–present).

Committee Member, Dean's Task Force for the School of Art and Design (2009–2010).

FSU Department Service

Director, Undergraduate Studies Committee (2017–present).

Committee Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee (2017–present).

Committee Member, Graduate Studies Committee (2014–2016).

Director, Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies (2011–2016).

Director, Graduate Studies (2010–2014).

Committee Member, Latin Americanist Search Committee for faculty hire (2011–2012).

Committee Member, Graduate Studies Committee (2009–2010).

Committee Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee (2008–2009).

Committee Chairperson, World Arts Search Committee for faculty hire (2008).

Committee Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2007–2008).

The Profession

Guest Reviewer for Refereed Journals

The Latin Americanist (Jan–Mar 2013).

Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (Jun–Oct 2010).

Exhibitions Curated

The Glyph Project. Noh Cacab/Santa Elena, Yucatan, Mexico (2005–2007).

Expression in Wood. Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (1993).

Chair of a Symposium

Carrasco, M., & Englehardt, J. (Chair). (2016, August). The Presentation, Representation, and Reproduction of the Archaeological Object. Symposium conducted at the meeting of World Archaeological Congress, Kyoto, Japan. 

Carrasco, M. D., & Werness-Rude, M. (Chair). (2013, February). Precolumbian Ceramics: Form, Meaning, and Function. Symposium conducted at the meeting of College Art Association (101st Annual Meeting), New York, New York. 

Werness-Rude, M., & Carrasco, M. D. (Chair). (2012, April). Mesoamerican Ceramics. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Society for American Archaeology (77th Annual Meeting), Memphis, Tennessee. 

Carrasco, M. D., & Hull, K. M. (Chair). (2008, November). Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature. Symposium conducted at the meeting of American Anthropological Society (107th Annual Meeting), San Francisco, California. 

Reviewer or Panelist for Grant Applications

National Endowment for the Humanities (2016).

National Science Foundation (2013–2015).

Swiss National Science Foundation (2012).

Consultation

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Advising on Linda Schele's drawings of the sculpture and hieroglyphs of Palenque and their digital presentation (2013–2014).

Department of Art, Florida State University. Consultant for the book Constructing Meaning (Pearson) by Mary Stewart, Professor, Department of Art, Florida State University (2009).

National Geographic Society. Interviewed about the ancient city of Palenque (2008).

Könemann, publishers. Specialist editor to the English edition of the book Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest, edited by Nikolai Grube, Professor, Department of Anthropology of the Americas, Universität Bonn (2001).