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Curriculum
Vitae
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Publications
Education
Schedule
Course Syllabi
SLIDE ARCHIVES
Mesoamerican
Art Slide Collection
Colonial
Mexican Art Slide Collection
Early
Christian and Byzantine Art Slide Collection
ART 101B (World
Art Slide Collection)
Mexican Muralists and Frida
Kahlo Slide Collection (ART 457H)
ULAMA
PROJECT
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College of Arts & Letters
Manuel Aguilar, Ph.D.
Professor
Office: FA228
Phone: (323) 343-4054
FAX: (323) 343-4045
Email: maguila2@calstatela.edu
TEACHING INTERESTS
One of the main goals of my life is to be a "Maestro" (a
Professor with the ability to be an inspiring force in my students and to
give them part of my heart and soul), through sharing with them relevant
knowledge that will help them to be better human beings and discover the
meaning of life. As tools for my goal, I have traveled in four continents
doing interdisciplinary studies of Art, History, Anthropology and Philosophy.
Also I have taught many different subjects that combine diverse disciplines
with the intention to know and understand the reality in an integral
way.
My main teaching area at present is the Art and Culture of Latin
America, with specialties in Pre-Columbian, Colonial and Modern Mexico.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I have been conducting research in diverse topics of Pre-Columbian and
Colonial History and Art of Latin America, comparative studies of art,
history and mythology of diverse ancient cultures of the world such as India, Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Israel,
Greece, and Rome. At present, as a professor of California
State University,
Los Angeles, I am conducting research in
diverse areas of the Art and History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin
America with emphasis in Mexico,
and specifically Aztec Art and ULAMA (survival of the Mesoamerican Ballgame).
PUBLICATIONS
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Books & Articles
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2013
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Ulama: A Survival of
the Pre-Columbian
Ballgame. Manuscript in progress (expected for publication in
2013).
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2011
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Diego Rivera: A Biography. Co-authored with Erika
Cabrera. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.
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2010
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El Rostro Humano de Hidalgo. Guadalajara: Secretaría de Cultura de
Jalisco (The book was published in the context of the celebration of the
200 Anniversary of the Independence of Mexico).
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2009
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“Malinalco: A place Between Heaven and Earth”.
In Landscapes of Origin. Edited by Jessica Christie. Tuscaloosa: Alabama University Press.
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2008
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“Reflexiones sobre la Guerra
entre Estados Unidos y
Mexico (1846-1848).” Proceedings of the Third International Simposium of Military History of Mexico (2005). Dr. Martin
González de la Vara and Gral.
Clever A. Chávez Marín
(Eds.). Zamora: Guadalajara: Asociación Internacional de Historia Militar.
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2007
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Handbook
to Life in the Aztec World. Oxford:
Oxford
University Press. Foreword
by Dr. John M.D. Pohl, Curator of the Pre-Columbian collection of the Princeton University
Museum.
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2007
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“Reflexiones sobre la invasion
de Estados Unidos a
Mexico (1846-1848).” Praesidium.
Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San Diego. Vol. IV,
2007.
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2006
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“The
Concepts of Life and Death in Aztec Art.” Praesidium.
Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San
Diego. Vol. III, 2006.
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2006
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“The
Good and Evil of Cacao in Colonial Mexico.” In Chocolate in Mesoamerica. Edited by Cameron
McNeil. Gainesville: University Press
of Florida.
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2006
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“El
Concepto de la Guerra en la Cultura
Maya.” Proceedings of the Second International Simposium of Military History of Mexico (2003). Gral. Clever A. Chávez Marín (Ed.). Guadalajara: Asociación
Internacional de Historia
Militar.
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2006
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Handbook
to Life in the Ancient Aztec World. New York: Facts on File. Foreword
by Dr. John M.D. Pohl, Curator of the Pre-Columbian collection of the Princeton University
Museum.
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2006
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Magical
Towns of Latin America. 2006 Calendar for MASECA Corporation.
It presents a selection of picturesque and historical towns of Latin America and their traditional foods. I
was invited to write the text for this calendar and work in the design
committee.
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2005
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“We
have come only to dream: Aztec Poetry” and “Let’s
Play Ball: Ullamaliztli.” Calliope.
Exploring World History. Volume 16, No. 4, December 2005.
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2005
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Utopía de Piedra: El Arte Tequitqui de México
(Stone Utopia: The Tequitqui Art of Mexico). Guadalajara: Conexión
Gráfica. The book was presented at
ITESO-Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Mexico by Dr. Salvador de Alba,
vice-minister of Culture of the State of Jalisco and Professor Ignacio Castiello.
November 2005.
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2005
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Philip Mackowiak, Vera Tiesler Blos, Manuel Aguilar,
Jane Buikstra
“On
the Origin of American Tuberculosis.” Clinical Infectious Diseases
2005, 41:515-8.
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2005
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“Tepeyolotl in the Cave
of Chalcatzingo.”
Proceedings of the Pacific
Coast Council on Latin American
Studies Conference: 2002-2003, Vol. 20, pp.:21-34. Edited by Irene
Vásquez and Doreen O’Connor-Gómez. Los Angeles: Xlibris
Corp., 2005.
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2005
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Manuel Aguilar,
Miguel Medina Jaen,
Tim Tucker and James Brady
“Origin
Caves and Cosmology: A Man-Made Chicomoztoc
Complex at Acatzingo Viejo.” In In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Studies in
Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use. Edited by Jim Brady and Keith Prufer. Austin: University of Texas
Press, 2005.
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2004-2005
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“The
Temple of Kinich Kak Mo in Izamal” Praesidium.
Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San
Diego. Vol. II, 2004-2005, pp.: 59-71.
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2004
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Ulama (The Survival of the Ancient Mesoamerican
Ballgame). Edited by Manuel Aguilar and James E. Brady. Estudios Jaliscienses
No. 56. Guadalajara:
Colegio de Jalisco, May 2004.
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2004
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“Filosofía y Simbolismo del
Juego de Pelota Mesoamericano.” In Ulama.
Estudios Jaliscienses
No. 56. Manuel Aguilar and James E. Brady (Eds.). Guadalajara: Colegio
de Jalisco. May 2004.
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2003
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“El
Venerable Juan de Palafox y Mendoza: ¿Santo o Villano?” Praesidium.
Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San
Diego. Vol. I, December 2003.
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2003
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La
Perfección del Silencio:
El Panteón de Belén y
el Culto a la Muerte en
México (The Perfection of Silence. The
Cemetery of Belén and the Cult of Death in
Mexico.) Guadalajara:
Secretaría de Cultura
de Jalisco, 2003. Bilingual Edition. The book was released with a
ceremony in the cemetery, words by the historian Enrique Florescano, the archaeologist Otto Schondube,
the anthropologist Guillermo de la Peña, the
Director of Cultural Patrimony of Guadalajara Salvador de Alba, and a
lecture by the author. March 17, 2003.
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2003
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Notebook for the Mixtec
Pictographic Writing workshop at Texas.
Codex
Nuttall: The Zapotec
Dynasty of Zaachila together with an English
Translation of Alfonso Caso’s 1949 Study of the Mapa de Teozacoalco.
Co-authored with John M.D. Pohl. Austin:
Texas
Mesoamerican Meetings Editions.
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2003
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El
Sentido de la Biblia (The Meaning of the Bible) (2nd
Edition). Mexico:
Buena Prensa, 2003. A book on
interpretation of Biblical Literary Genres and History. Foreword by Dr.Luis Alonso Schoekel.
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2003
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The
Indio Ladino as a Cultural Mediator in the Mexican Colonial Society.
Estudios de Cultura
Nahuatl. Vol 33, May 2003. Mexico: UNAM.
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2003
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Etnomedicina en Mesoamerica. Arqueología Mexicana. Vol. X, No. 59,
January-February 2003 (Bilingual edition).
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2002-2003
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The
Mesoamerican Ballgame as a portal to the Underworld. Pre-Columbian
Art Research Institute (PARI) Journal. San Francisco. Vol. III, Nos. 2 and 3,
2002-2003.
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2002
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The
Stelae of Xochicalco
and Quetzalcoatl. Mexicon.
Vol. XXIV, No. 6, December 2002.
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2002
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Cultural
Encounters in Mexico: Identity and Religion. Praesidium.
Interdisciplinary Journal of the University
of San Diego. Introductory Vol.,
November 2002.
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2002
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“Semblanza del Ejercito
Azteca.” Proceedings of the First International Symposium of
Military History of Mexico
(2001). Gral. Clever A. Chávez
Marín (Ed.). Guadalajara: Asociación
Internacional de Historia
Militar.
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2001
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The
Tequitqui Baroque of the State of Jalisco, Mexico.
Ventana Interior, Year 3, V. III,
13, September-October 2001. Mexico:
National Council for Culture and Art of Mexico (CONACULTA).
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2001
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Documentos Coloniales Mexicanos resguardados en La
Universidad de Texas en Austin. Memorias de la Benemérita Sociedad de
Geografía y Estadística del Estado de Jalisco. Guadalajara.
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2001
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The
Skeleton that Eats Maize: The Day of the Dead among the Ancient and Classic
Maya. Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute (PARI) Journal. San Francisco. Vol.II,
No.3, Summer 2001.
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1999
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Tequitqui Art of Sixteenth Century Mexico: An
Expression of Transculturation. (Doctoral
Dissertation). Supervised by Dr. Karl Butzer, University
of Texas at Austin. (December, 1999).
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1999
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El Misterio de
Kinich Kak Mo en Izamal. Guadalajara: Sociedad de Geografia y
Estadistica. (See same article in 2004-2005)
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1999
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El Venerable
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza: Santo o Villano?. Guadalajara: Sociedad de
Geografia y Estadistica. (See same article in 2003)
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1998
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Tequitqui Art
in Mexico. Guadalajara: Sociedad de Geografia y Estadistica.
(See 1999 Dissertation)
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1998
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Translation from Spanish to English of the book El Mapa de Teozacoalco by
Alfonso Caso. Austin:
Texas
Mesoamerican Meetings Editions. (See Notebook for the Mixtec Pictograph Writing article in 2003)
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1998
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The
Cult of the Dead in Mexico: Continuity of a Millenial
Tradition. Austin: Mexic-Arte
Museum Publications. Presentation
and Book Signing in Mexic-Arte Museum,
Austin, Tex.
October 31, 1998.
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1997
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The
Olmec Humboldt Axe and the Aztec symbol Atl-Tlachinolli. In U Mut
Maya, Vol.VI. Tom and Carolyn Jones (Eds.). Arcata, CA.
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1997
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Nahualism and Ethnomedicine
in Latin America. In U Mut Maya, Vol.
VI. Tom and Carolyn Jones (Eds.). Arcata,
CA.
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1997
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El
Panteón de Belén y el Culto a los Muertos in
Mexico: Una Búsqueda de
lo Sobrenatural. Architecture and
History of funerary art in Guadalajara and
in several regions of Mexico.
Edition sponsored by the Government of the City of Guadalajara. Foreword by Lic. Efraín González Morfín, Minister of Education of the State of Jalisco.
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1997
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Architecture and Ideology in Sixteenth-Century Mexico:
Religious Power and Tequitqui Art (Master
Thesis). Supervised by Dr.Linda Schele and Dr.Karl Butzer, University
of Texas at Austin. (See 1999 Dissertation)
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1995
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Quest
for the Atlquiahuitl: Historical and Cultural
study of the town of Cajititlan. Cajititlan: Parish Publications.
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1994
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El
Sentido de la Biblia
(The Meaning of the Bible). A Study of the Historiography and
Literary Genres. Foreword by Dr.Luis Alonso Schoekel. Guadalajara: ITESO University
Press.
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1993
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The
Cemetery of Belen.
The Sacred Land of Silence.
Guadalajara: Unidad
Editorial del
Estado de Jalisco. An architectural and historical study about
one of the finest buildings in Guadalajara.
The book was released with a ceremony in the cemetery, words by the former
Mayor of Guadalajara Don Gabriel Covarrubias, a lecture by the author
and a contemporary dance show.
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APPEARANCES IN MAGAZINES & TELEVISION
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2006
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Appearance in Muy Interesante
Magazine from Spain,
September 2006. I am quoted there by my work in the Ulama Project about the study of the survival of the
pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico.
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2006
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Participation in a T.V. program for the History
Channel with the theme: “Engineering an Empire: The Aztecs.” The
program was produced by Jim Gaffey of KPITV of
New York, and the interviews were filmed in the Anahuacalli Museum
in Mexico City.
May 27, 2006
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2006
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Appearance in Smithsonian Magazine, April 2006. I am
quoted there by my work in the Ulama Project
about the study of the survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico
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2004
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Appearance in The
Chronicle of Higher Education, December 10, 2004, in the article
“Saving a Mayan Game of Sacrifice” by Marion Lloyd in the section Notes
from Academe. Quoted there by my work in the Ulama
Project about the study of the survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico.
December 10, 2004
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2004
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Appearance in the newspaper Houston
Chronicle, November 14, 2004, in the article “Mexico’s ‘original’ sport faces
threat of extinction” by Jo Tuckman. Quoted
there by our work in the Ulama Project about the
study of the survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico. November 14, 2004
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2004
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Appearance in Abenteuer Archaeologie
Magazine, May 24th-30th 2004, in the article “Take me out to the
ballgame” in the section Science and Technology. I am quoted there by
my work in the Ulama Project about the study of
the survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico. May 2004, Germany.
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2004
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Appearance in The
Economist Magazine, April 24th-30th 2004, in the article
“Take me out to the ballgame” in the section Science and Technology.
I am quoted there by my work in the Ulama Project
about the study of the survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico.
April, 2004.
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2004
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Participation in a T.V. program for the History
Channel with the theme: “Deep Sea Detectives: Secret Underwater
Caves” The program was produced by Rocky Collins of Lone Wolf
Documentary Group, and the interviews were filmed in Cal State LA.
March 12, 2004.
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2003
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Appearance in Archaeology
Magazine, September-October 2003, in the article “Extreme Sport. Mexico’s
Ancient Ballgame” by Colleen Popson. I am
quoted there by my work in the Ulama Project
about the study of the survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico.
Sep-Oct, 2003.
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2002
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Participation in a T.V. program about "The
Encounter of Two Worlds: Spaniards and Indians in the American
Continent", with the noted Mexican historian José María
Muriá. Channel 4, Guadalajara, México. October 14, 2002
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2002
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I was quoted in the book The
Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works, by Roger Highfield, Viking Press, October 2002, pgs. 33-34 and
37-38. The author quotes me regarding the relationship of the
Mesoamerican ballgame with the consumption of hallucinogenic substances and
the links with Shamanism since 1500 B.C. This theorizes that Harry
Potter’s Quidditch sport was probably inspired in
the Mesoamerican ballgame that had magic-religious connotations.
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2002
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Appearance in Science
News, V.161, No. 20, in the article “Openings to the
Underworld” by Bruce Bower. I am quoted there by my work on the
finding of a man-made Chicomoztoc, the seven
caves of origin of the Nahua people. May
18, 2002
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2001
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Participation in a T.V. program for the History
Channel with the theme: “A Day in the Life of a Conquistador”.
The program was produced by Dr. John Pohl of the Fowler Museum of Cultural
History at UCLA. December 13, 2001
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1995
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Participation in a T.V. program about "The Painting
of Clemente Orozco", discussing the book “Orozco el Mito” with famous
Mexican scholars like Augusto Orea Marín (author of the book), Guillermo García Oropeza and Magdalena González Casillas. Channel 6, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1995
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1995
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Participation in culture and history oriented T.V.
programs about “The Shroud of Christ” and “The Monster of Loch Ness”. Channel 6, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1995
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Latin American Studies: Art, History and Anthropology.
Dissertation: "The Tequitqui Art of Sixteenth
Century Mexico:
An Expression of Transculturation. 1999
 University
of Texas at Austin
M.A. Art History of Latin America.
1997
University
of Texas at Austin
DIPLOMA in History of Mexico.
1995
Colegio de Jalisco
Guadalajara, Mex.
Certificate in Education. 1994
ITESO,
Jesuit University
Guadalajara,
Mex.
B.S. Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 1983
ITESO,
Jesuit University
Guadalajara,
Mex.
Mesoamerican
Art Slide Collection
Colonial
Mexican Art Slide Collection
COURSE SYLLABI
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ART 101B
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World Art (Byzantine, Islamic, Romanesque, Gothic,
Indian and Cambodian)
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ART 101C
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World Art (Renaissance to Neoclassic)
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ART 421
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Baroque Art of Europe
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ART 436
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Renaissance Art
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ART 476
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Early Christian and Byzantine Art
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ART
446
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Art of Latin America
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ART 447
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Art of Mesoamerica and
the Southwest
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ART 450
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Colonial Art of Mexico: Tequitqui,
Baroque and Churrigueresque
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ART 457
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Mexican Muralists and Frida
Kahlo
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ART 456
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Art of the Andes
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ART
454L
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Art in Latin American Cinema
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ART
453
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Aztec Art and Culture
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ART
501B-1
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Graduate Seminar: Colonial Art of Latin America (Guatemala, Ecuador,
Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay)
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SPRING 2012 SCHEDULE
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Course
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Sect. No.
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Title
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Units
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Day & Time
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Room
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ART 456
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1
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Art of the Andes
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4
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MW 1:30pm – 3:10pm
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FA223
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ART 447
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1
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Art of
Mesoamerica and the SW
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4
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MW 4:20pm – 6:00pm
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FA223
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ART 492A
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1
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Undergraduate
Seminar: Senior Project
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4
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T 11:40pm –
3:30pm
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FA347
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OFFICE HOURS
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Time
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Monday –Wednesday
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11:30pm - 1:25pm
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