I am the Curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collections of the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas. On the faculty of the Rare Book School of the University of Virginia I teach the history and structure of the Masoamerican Codex. Interested in the intersection of computation and cultural heritage preservation, I have also taught seminars in computer vision & computational morphometrics at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Italy. I am the founder of the BIO-COMP Lab (BCL), where our philosophy is to apply advanced mathematics and computation to challenging problems in archaeology and cultural heritage preservation. Our research focuses on the application computer vision and machine learning to the reconstruction of ceramic assemblages from archaeological contexts, and to the extraction of Maya hieroglyphs from damaged inscriptions. The author of more than one hundred articles and books, including the New York Times bestseller, MAP: Exploring the World, my writing and work has been featured in many national media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Discover Magazine, WIRED, CITYLAB, the BBC, CBS News and most recently on NPR’s All Things Considered, Bloomberg News and MAPLAB.
Most Recent Posts
- Excavating Early Archaeology: Preserving the Calendar Stone February 9th, 2021
- Mesoamerican Artifacts from the Jay I. Kislak Collection Now Online January 12th, 2021
- Digging up the Truth: Studying Ancient West Mexican House Models March 2nd, 2020
- For Women Who Know No Boundaries April 24th, 2019
- Rising to the First: An Interview with Dr. Paulette Hasier March 22nd, 2019
- For Love, War, and Tribute: Featherwork in the Early Americas March 8th, 2019
- Society of Woman Geographers Coming to the Library of Congress March 1st, 2019
- From Ethnography to Feathers: Investigating Collections at the Library February 13th, 2019
- Mapping the Way to Nirvana: a Burmese Theravada Buddhist Carving October 4th, 2018
- Investigating Collections: Science Meets Archaeology at the Library of Congress September 6th, 2018