CURRICULUM VITAE LUIS ANTONIO CURET ADDRESS: National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution Cultural Resources Center 4220 Silver Hill Road Suitland MD 20746-2863 Phone: 301-238-1365/fax: 301-238-3202 Email: CuretA@si.edu PLACE OF BIRTH: Hato Rey, Puerto Rico EDUCATION: Ph. D. in Anthropology (Archaeology), Arizona State University, Tempe. Dissertation: “The Development of Chiefdoms in the Greater Antilles: A Regional Study of the Valley of Maunabo, Puerto Rico,” December 1992. M.S. in Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Thesis: “Improved Detection and Characterization of Organic Pollutants in Air,” May 1985. B.S. in Chemistry (Magna cum Laude), University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, August 1982. ACADEMIC HONORS: -Minority Biomedical Research Scholarship, 1982-1985. -University Fellowship, Arizona State University, 1986-87. -Achievement Reward for College Scientist Scholarship, Arizona State University, 1988-89. -Teaching Assistantships 1987-1992, Arizona State University. -CLAS Research Award, University of Colorado at Denver, 1998. -Principal Investigator of the Month, Office of Sponsored Programs, University of Colorado at Denver, July 1998. -CLAS Teaching Award, University of Colorado at Denver 1999. LANGUAGES: Fluent Spanish and English EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Curator, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., 2013-present. Visiting Profesro, Dept. of Anthrpology, Universidad del Norte, 2017, 2018 Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, American University, 2014. Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Catholic University of America, 2014-present. Visiting Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, June-July 2012. Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006-2013. Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, DePaul University, 2008, 2010-2013. Adjunct Curator, Dept. of Anthropology, Field Museum, Chicago, 2010-2013. Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Northwestern University, 2006-2011. Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, June 2008, 2010, 2012. Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Sept. to Dec. 2007. Associate Curator, Dept. of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago, 2006-2010. Assistant Curator, Dept. of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago, 2000-2006. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Denver, 1996-2000. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1993- 1996. Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Spring 1993. GRANTS: L. Antonio Curet, Award from the Cultural Rescue Initiative Office, Smithsonian Institution: $25,000, Assisting the Centro Indígena de Tibes, Ponce Puerto Rico, to Mitigate the Effects of Hurricanes Irma and María. L. Antonio Curet, Award from the Research Opportunity Fund of the Office of the Undersecretary for History, Art and Culture, Smithsonian Institution: $700 to participate in the VII Congreso de Antropología y Arqueología, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 2016. L. Antonio Curet, Award from the Scholarly Study Award Program, Smithsonian Institution: $40,488, to conduct fieldwork in the Ceremonial Center of Tibes, 2015-1016. L. Antonio Curet, Award from the Research Opportunity Fund of the Office of the Undersecretary for History, Art and Culture, Smithsonian Institution: $1,750 to conduct fieldwork in the Valley of Añasco, Puerto Rico, 2014. L. Antonio Curet, Award from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, visiting professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá Colombia, Summer 2012. William Pestle, L. Antonio Curet, Joshua Torres and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, award from the Programa de Estudio e Inventario de la Oficina de Estatal de Conservación Histórica, Puerto Rico, $20,000: "Regional Study of the Valley of Añasco, Western Puerto Rico," 2011-2012 (declined). L. Antonio Curet, National Science Foundation, Grant # BCS-0841110, $158,898: “Household and Social Change in Ancient Puerto Rico,” 2009-2012. L. Antonio Curet, Grainger Foundation Fund Grant, The Field Museum, $24,000. “Social and Cultural Change in Ancient Puerto Rico: A Research and Educational Project,” 2007. L. Antonio Curet, Field Dreams Program, The Field Museum, $4,580. “Volunteer Program of the Proyecto Arqueológico de Tibes, Puerto Rico,” 2007. L. Antonio Curet, Consejo para la Protección del Patrimonio Arqueológico Terrestre de Puerto Rico, $10,300. “Proyecto Arqueológico del Centro Indígena de Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico,” 2007-2008. L. Antonio Curet, William Pestle, and Edwin Crespo, National Science Foundation, Grant # BCS-0612727, $149,720: " Diet and Social Stratification in Ancient Puerto Rico," 2006-2008. L. Antonio Curet and William Pestle, Field Dreams Program, The Field Museum, $1,000: “Chemical and Genetic Studies of Human Remains from Puerto Rico,” 2005. L. Antonio Curet, and Susan Kepecs, Christopher Reynolds Foundation, $7,200: “Enhancing Intellectual Exchange Between Cuban and American Archaeologists,” for organizing symposium on Cuban archaeology at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2005. L. Antonio Curet and Susan Kepecs, Fundación Amistad, $5,000: “Enhancing Intellectual Exchange Between Cuban and American Archaeologists,” for organizing symposium on Cuban archaeology at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2005. L. Antonio Curet and Susan Kepecs, Social Sciences Research Council, $4,284: “Enhancing Intellectual Exchange Between Cuban and American Archaeologists,” for organizing symposium on Cuban archaeology at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2005. L. Antonio Curet, Field Dreams Program, The Field Museum, $2,184: “Volunteer Program of the ‘Proyecto Arqueológico de Tibes,’ Ponce, Puerto Rico,” 2004. L. Antonio Curet, William Pestle, Edwin Crespo, and Sloan Williams. The H. John Heinz III Fund Grant Program for Latin American Archaeology, $7,854: "Study of Migration and Subsistence in Four Ancient Sites in Puerto Rico through Bone Chemistry and Genetic Analysis," 2004. Steve Nash, L. Antonio Curet, and Chris Phillip. Museum Loan Network, $15,000. Award for photographing of and archival research on the Lower Central American Collections, 2003. L. A. Curet, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, $2,760: award for assisting the participation of two Latin American scholars at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Society. Prepared for the Society for American Society, 2003. L. A. Newsom and L. A. Curet, National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration, Research Award #7276-02, $19,600. “Investigations of Household and Communal Deposits at Tibes, Puerto Rico," 2002-2003. L. A. Curet and L. Newsom, National Science Foundation, Grant # BCS-0106520, $59,967: "Household, Community, and Power in Precolumbian Puerto Rico," 2001-2002. L. A. Curet, Faculty Grant Award, University of Colorado at Denver, $4,907, for conducting field research at the site of Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1998-1999. L. A. Curet, L. Newsom, and S. deFrance, National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration, Research Award #6260-98, $15,000: "Environment, Household Economy, and Social Complexity in Prehistoric Puerto Rico,” 1998-1999. L. A. Curet, Grant awarded by the Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, $5,424, for the organization of a conference titled: Arqueología prehistórica de Ponce y sus hallazgos más importantes. Prepared for the City of Ponce, 1998. L. A. Curet, Research grant awarded by the Consejo Para la Protección del Patrimonio Arqueológico Terrestre de Puerto Rico, $9,800, for research in household archaeology in the Ceremonial Center of Tibes," 1998-1999. L. A. Curet, Faculty Grant Award, University of Colorado at Denver, $4,347, for conducting laboratory analysis of the ceramics from the Tibes site, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1997-1998. L. A. Curet and L. Newsom, H. John Heinz III Fund Grant Program for Latin American Archaeology, $8,000, for conducting archaeological fieldwork in Puerto Rico. "Household Economy and Social Complexity in Prehistoric Puerto Rico,” 1996. L. A. Curet, “Improving Undergraduate Instruction in Anthropological Field Methods, $12,000. National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Award, DUE#9551495, 1995. L. A. Curet, Research and Professional Development Grant awarded by the Provost of Gettysburg College, $16,000, for conducting a pilot project at the Tibes site, Ponce, Puerto Rico, Summers of 1994, 1995, and 1996. L. A. Curet, Research and Professional Development Grant, $600, awarded by the Provost of Gettysburg College for technological analysis of prehistoric ceramics from the Valley of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, Spring 1994. L. A. Curet, Research grant awarded by the Consejo Para la Protección del Patrimonio Arqueológico Terrestre de Puerto Rico, $10,000, for the Proyecto Arqueológico del Valle de Maunabo, 1990. L. A. Curet, Travel-research grant awarded by the Program of Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, $600, to travel to Puerto Rico for fieldwork in the Proyecto Arqueológico del Valle de Maunabo, 1990. L. A. Curet, Research grant awarded by the Consejo Para la Protección del Patrimonio Arqueológico Terrestre de Puerto Rico, $3,000, for a pilot project of the Proyecto Arqueológico del Valle de Maunabo, 1989. L. A. Curet, Research grant awarded by the Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, $300, for the surface study of pottery production areas in La Mixtequilla, Veracruz, 1988. BOOKS: 2005 L. Antonio Curet, Caribbean Paleodemography: Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. EDITED VOLUMES: 2011 L. Antonio Curet and Mark Hauser. Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2010 Susan Kepecs, L. Antonio Curet, and Gabino La Rosa. Beyond the Blockade: New Archaeology in Cuba. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2010 L. Antonio Curet and Lisa M. Stringer. Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2007 Basil Reed, Henri Petitjean Roget, and L. Antonio Curet. Proceedings of the 21st International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, St. Agustine, Trinidad. 2005 L. Antonio Curet, Shannon L. Dawdy, and Gabino La Rosa. Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS: In press L. Antonio Curet, Theodoor de Booy in Puerto Rico: An Untold Story in the History of Caribbean Archaeology. Caribbean Studies. 2015 L. Antonio Curet, “Indigenous Revival, Indigeneity, and the Jíbaro in Borikén.” Centro Journal 27(1): 206-247. 2014 Joshua M. Torres, L. Antonio Curet, Scott Rice-Snow, Melissa Castor, and Andrew Castor. Of Flesh and Stone: Labor Investment and Regional Socio-Political Implications of Plaza/Batey Construction at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes (A.D. 600-1200), Puerto Rico. Latin American Antiquity 25(3): 125-151. 2014 L. Antonio Curet, “Taíno: Phenomena, Concepts, and Terms.” Ethnohistory 61(3): 467-495. 2013 William J. Pestle, L. Antonio Curet, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, and Miguel Rodríguez López, "New Questions and Old Paradigms: Reexamining Caribbean Culture History." Latin American Antiquity 24(3): 243-261. 2013 William J. Pestle, Antonio Simonetti, and L. Antonio Curet, "Variability in Puerto Rico: Geological Complexity and the Study of Paleomobility." Journal of Archaeological Science 40: 2561-2569. 2010 L. Antonio Curet and William Pestle, “Identifying High Status Foods in the Archaeological Record.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29:413-431. 2008 Reniel Rodríguez, Elvis Babilonia, L. Antonio Curet, and Jorge Ulloa. “The Pre-Arawak Pottery Horizon in the Antilles: A New Approximation.” Latin American Antiquity 19(1): 47-63. 2006 L. Antonio Curet, “Las Crónicas en la Arqueología de Puerto Rico y del Caribe.” Caribbean Studies 34(1): 163-199. 2006 L. Antonio Curet, Lee A. Newsom, and Susan deFrance, “Social and Cultural Changes in the Civic and Ceremonial Center of Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico.” Journal of Field Archaeology 31: 23-39. 2006 L. Antonio Curet, "Missing the Point and an Illuminating Example: Response to Keegan’s Comment." Ethnohistory 53(2): 393-398. 2003 John Edward Terrell, John P. Hart, Sibel Barut, Nicoletta Cellinese, Antonio Curet, Tim Denham, Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Kyle Latinis, Rahul Oka, Joel Palka, Mary E. D. Pohl, Kevin O. Pope, Patrick Ryan Williams, Helen Haines, and John E. Staller, "Domesticated Landscapes: The Subsistence Ecology of Plant and Animal Domestication." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 10(4): 323-368. 2003 L. Antonio Curet, Issues on the Diversity and Emergence of Middle-Range Societies of the Ancient Caribbean: A Critique. Journal of Archaeological Research 11(1): 1-42. 2002 L. Antonio Curet, The Chief is Dead, Long Live…Who? Descent and Succession in the Protohistoric Chiefdoms of the Greater Antilles. Ethnohistory 49(2): 259-280. 1998 L. Antonio Curet and José Oliver, Mortuary Practices, Social Development, and Ideology in Precolumbian Puerto Rico. Latin American Antiquity 9:217-239. 1998 L. Antonio Curet, Poder e ideología: El control del simbolismo en los cacicazgos tempranos de Puerto Rico. Historia y Sociedad 10:107-125. 1998 L. Antonio Curet, New Formulae for Estimating Prehistoric Populations for Lowland South America and the Caribbean. Antiquity 27:359-375. 1997 L. Antonio Curet, Technological Changes in Prehistoric Ceramics From Eastern Puerto Rico: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Archaeological Science 24:497-504. 1996 L. Antonio Curet, Ideology, Chiefly Power, and Material Culture: An Example from the Greater Antilles. Latin American Antiquity 7(2): l 14-131. 1994 Barbara L. Stark and L. Antonio Curet, “The Development of Classic Period Mixtequilla in South-Central Veracruz, Mexico." Ancient Mesoamerica 5:267-287, special section on the Gulf Coast. 1994 L. Antonio Curet, Barbara L. Stark, and Sergio Vásques Z., Postclassic Changes in Veracruz, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 15(1): 13-32. 1993 L. Antonio Curet, Regional Studies and Ceramic Production Areas: An Example from La Mixtequilla, Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Field Archaeology 20:427-440. 1992 L. Antonio Curet, House Structure and Cultural Change in the Caribbean: Three Case Studies from Puerto Rico. Latin American Antiquity 3(2):160-174. CHAPTERS IN VOLUMES: In press L. Antonio Curet and José R. Oliver, Caribbean-Central American Long-Distance – A Cautionary Note. In Toward an Archaeology of “Greater” Central America, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press L. Antonio Curet and José R. Oliver, Following the Bread Crumbs: Epistemological and Methodological Issues in the Interpretations of Long-Distance Trade in the Caribbean. In Trade Before the State, ed. by Johan Ling, Kristian Kristiansen, and Richard Chacon, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016 L. Antonio Curet, El Colonialismo en la Historia de las Arqueologías del Caribe Hispano. In Indígenas e Indios en el Caribe: Presencia, Legado y Estudio, ed. by J. Ulloa Hung and R. Valcárce Rojas, Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2015 L. Antonio Curet, William J. Pestle, Lisa M. Stringer and Debra M. Green, Evidence of a major Flood Event in Southern Puerto Rico. In Proceedings of the Twenty fifth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, ed. by L. Del Olmo, pp. 944-962. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2015 William J. Pestle, L. Antonio Curet, and Lisa M. Stringer, Human Skeletal Remains from Tibes, Puerto Rico 2007-2010. In Proceedings of the Twenty fifth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, ed. by L. Del Olmo, pp. 522-538. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2015 L. Antonio Curet, El Proyecto Arqueológico del Centro Ceremonial de Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico: Resultados y Conclusiones. In Memorias de la Convención Internacional de Antropología Anthropos 2015, edited by A. Rangel and V. Vázquez, pp. 2064-2092. Museo Montané, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba. 2012 L. Antonio Curet, Historia Social y Política del Caribe Antiguo. In Arqueología en el Area Intermedia, ed. by Víctor González Fernández, pp. 105-144. Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, Bogotá. 2011 L. Antonio Curet and Mark Hauser, Introduction: Migration, Seafaring, and Culture Contact in the Caribbean. In Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean, ed. by L. Antonio Curet and M. Hauser, pp. 1-10. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2011 L. Antonio Curet, Irving Rouse’s Contribution to American Archaeology: The Case of Migration. In Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean, ed. by L. Antonio Curet and M. Hauser, pp. 13-21. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2011 Mark Hauser and L. Antonio Curet, Islands in the Stream: The Archaeology of Interaction in the Caribbean. In Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean, ed. by L. Antonio Curet and M. Hauser, pp. 219-232. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2011 L. Antonio Curet, The Earliest Settlers. The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its People, ed. by Stephan Palmié and Francisco Scarano, pp. 53-67. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 2011 L. Antonio Curet, Colonialism and the History of Archaeology in the Spanish Caribbean. In Comparative Archaeologies: A Sociological View of the Science of the Past, ed. by Ludomir R. Lozny, pp. 641-672. Springer, London. 2010 Susan Kepecs and L. Antonio Curet, Introduction to Beyond the Blockade: New Currents in Cuban Archaeology. In Beyond the Blockade: New Currents in Cuban Archaeology: New Currents in Cuban Archaeology, ed. by S. Kepecs and L. A. Curet, pp. 1-12. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2010 L. Antonio Curet and Lisa M. Stringer, Introduction. In Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos, ed. by L.A. Curet and L. M. Stringer, pp. 1-18. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2010 Pedro Alvarado Zayas and L. Antonio Curet, Tibes: History and First Archaeological Work. In Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos, ed. by L.A. Curet and L. M. Stringer, pp. 19-37. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2010 L. Antonio Curet, The Archaeological Project of the Civic-Ceremonial Center of Tibes. In Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos, ed. by L.A. Curet and L. M. Stringer, 38-59. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2010 Scott Rice-Snow, Melissa J. Castor, Andrew K. Castor, Jeffry D. Grigsby, Richard H. Fluegeman, and L. Antonio Curet, Boulder Lithology Survey, Tibes Civic-Ceremonial Site, Puerto Rico. In Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos, ed. by L.A. Curet and L.M. Stringer, pp. 177-190. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Next >