Dr. Michael Carrasco
Assistant Professor,
Pre-Columbian art, architecture, and Maya Epigraphy
PhD University of Texas at Austin
406 Fine Arts Building
(850) 645-2536
mcarrasco@fsu.edu
Website: Unaahil B'aak: The Temples of Palenque
Michael D. Carrasco's areas of specialization include the art history of Mesoamerica, Maya epigraphy, and Yucatec Mayan. He teaches courses on the art and culture of the indigenous Americas as well as courses on image theory and the intersection of anthropology and art history. Additionally, he has taught courses on Maya epigraphy for Wesleyan University, the University of North Carolina and Duke Summer Yucatec Program, and at the Maya Meetings at the University of Texas, Austin. He is currently working on two book-length projects. The first is tentatively entitled Of How they Pleased the Hearts of their Gods, and explores issues of divine embodiment and icon use among the Maya and other Mesoamerican cultures. The second, From the Stone Painter’s Brush: An Anthology of Classic Maya Literature, (with Kerry M. Hull) presents translations of important texts from the corpus of Classic Maya inscriptions.
Selected Publications
"The Changing Styles and Contexts of the Mask-Flange Iconographic Complex." Art for Archaeology's Sake: Material Culture and Style across the Disciplines, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Canada, 2005.
Mak-“Portal” Rituals Uncovered: An Approach to Interpreting Symbolic Architecture and the Creation of Sacred Space Among the Maya. In, Continuity and Change: Maya Religious Practices in Temporal Perspective. (co-author Kerry Hull) 5th European Maya Conference, University of Bonn, Germany Dec. 2000. Acta Mesoamericana, Vol. 14, pp.131-142.
"The Cosmogonic Symbolism of the Corbeled Vault in
Maya Architecture." (co-author Kerry Hull) Mexicon
Volume XXIV, No. 2 (April 2002).
"The Incensario Stands of Palenque." Pre-Columbian
Art Research Institute Newsletter 25:9 San Francisco, 1998.
Courses Offered
- Great Traditions in Mesoamerican Art and Culture
- Writing and Semasiographic Systems in Mesoamerica