CURRICULUM VITAE
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CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
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Assistant Curator of Historical & Contemporary Archaeology, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
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Academic Board, Institute for Field Research
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Consulting Scholar, Penn Museum
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University Society of Fellows, 2019-2022
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Lecturer, Department of Anthropology & Humanities Council, Princeton University, 2019-2022
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DEGREES
​2019 PhD Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
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​2011 MA (co-terminal) Anthropology, Stanford University
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2011 BA with Honors, Archaeology, Stanford University
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PUBLICATIONS
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​Edited Collections
Fryer, Tiffany C. and Maia Dedrick, eds. 2023. "Special Section: Reckoning with Violence." American Anthropologist 125 (2--June).
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Diserens Morgan, Kasey and Tiffany C. Fryer, eds. 2022. Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands: Archaeological Perspectives. First title in Global Colonialisms Series, University Press of Colorado.
Fryer, Tiffany C. and Teresa P. Raczek, eds. 2020. “Engendering Heritage: Contemporary Feminist Approaches to Archaeological Heritage Practice.” Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (AP3A). Volume 31.
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
Montgomery, Lindsay M. and Tiffany C. Fryer. 2023. "The Future of Archaeology Is (Still) Community Collaboration." Antiquity 97 (394): 795-809. (Open Access)
Fryer, Tiffany C. 2023. "Heritage as Liberation." American Anthropologist 125 (2): 420-434. (Open Access)
Fryer, Tiffany C. and Maia Dedrick. 2023. "Let's Reckon, Then." Special Section Introduction. American Anthropologist 125 (2): 334-345. (Open Access)
​Fryer, Tiffany C. 2022. "Periodizing Things." Colonial Latin American Review 31 (4): 580-590.​
​Fryer, Tiffany C. 2020. “Reflecting on Positionality: Archaeological Heritage Praxis in Quintana Roo, Mexico.” AP3A 31: 26-40. (Open Access)
Fryer, Tiffany C. and Teresa P. Raczek. 2020. “Introduction: Toward an Engaged Feminist Heritage Praxis.” AP3A 31: 7-25. (Open Access)
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Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
​Fryer, Tiffany C. 2022. "Confronting Violence in the Layered Landscapes of East-Central Quintana Roo." In Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands: Archaeological Perspectives.
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Diserens Morgan, Kasey and Tiffany C. Fryer. 2022. "Characterizing an Archaeology of the Recent Past in the Maya Region." In Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands: Archaeological Perspectives.
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Fryer, Tiffany C. and Kasey Diserens Morgan. 2021. “Heritage Activism in Quintana Roo, Mexico: Assembling New Futures through an Umbrella Heritage Practice.” In Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism, edited by Christopher P. Barton. University Press of Florida.
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Cain, Tiffany C. and Richard M. Leventhal. 2017. “Questioning the Status of Land as Commodity in Maya Quintana Roo and Belize.” In The Value of Things: Commodities in the Maya Region, edited by Jennifer P. Mathews and Thomas H. Guderjan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
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Special Publications
Fryer, Tiffany C., La Vaughn Belle, Nicholas Galanin, Dell Upton, and Tsione Wolde-Michael. 2021. "As the Statues Fall: An (Abridged) Conversation about Monuments and the Power of Memory." Published Interview, Current Anthropology 62 (3): 374-384.
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Book Reviews
Fryer, Tiffany C. 2022. Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege, edited by Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley D. Phillippi. American Antiquity 87(4): 855-856.
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Fryer, Tiffany C. 2021. Violence and the Caste War of Yucatan, by Wolfgang Gabbert. Hispanic American Historical Review 101 (1): 159-161.
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Fryer, Tiffany C. 2020. Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion: Archaeological Perspectives, by Rani T. Alexander, ed. Historical Archaeology, 54 (2): 510–512.
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Cain, Tiffany C. 2018. Critical Theory and the Anthropology of Heritage Landscapes by Melissa F. Baird. Historical Archaeology, 50 (2): 524.
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Cain, Tiffany C. 2016. The Archaeology of Ancestors: Death, Memory, and Veneration, by Erica Hill and Jon B. Hageman, eds. Historical Archaeology, 50 (4): 159-161.
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Cain, Tiffany C. 2016. Returning to the Study of Things: A Review of Ruin Memories: Materialities, Aesthetics, and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, by Bjørnar Olsen and Þóra Pétursdóttir, eds. Expedition Magazine, 58 (1): 46.
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Cain, Tiffany C. 2013. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, 2nd Edition, by Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 44 (3): 342-343.
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Public Scholarship
2022. "Decolonizing Heritage and Curation," on SAPIENS TalkBack. RadioCIAMS. Listen here.
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2020. "As the Statues Fall: A Conversation on Monuments and the Power of Memory." Webinar moderator. Watch here.
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2020. "The Tihosuco Heritage Preservation & Community Development Project: An Introduction." DigNation Festival.​
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2019. "#30: Bringing Your Heart Home," with Ian Pollock on The Familiar Strange Podcast. Listen here.
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2016. “Activating and Deactivating Heritage Symbols: On the Tubman $20 and Other Symbolic Controversies.” Anthropology News. May Issue.
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2015. "On Writing and Productivity." UPenn Anthropology Graduate Blog. November.
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2014. “Social Media, Racial Violence, and Confronting the Ensemble of Michael Brown.” Anthropology News, September Issue.​
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RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“Practicing Heritage as Liberation to Collaborate against Coloniality.” Von Hess Residency Program Symposium on Monuments and Public Art, Lancaster, PA, March 25th, 2022.
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“Casting Segregation as Autonomy: Revisiting the Origins of the Caste War of Yucatan.” Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop Colloquium, University of Chicago, May 20th, 2021.
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“From Critical to Substantive Heritage Practice.” Society for American Archaeology, April 15th, 2021.
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“An Archaeology of Violence and Coloniality in the Yucatan.” Archaeology and Biological Anthropology Lunch Talk, UC Santa Cruz, April 7th, 2021.
“Recovery: Critical Approaches to Heritage, Monuments, and Memory in the Academy.” Virtual Panel Discussion. University of South Florida, February 3rd, 2021.
“Infrastructures of Race and War: An Indigenous Archaeology of Insurrection.” Cotsen Institute of Archaeology “Pizza Talk”, UCLA, January 27th, 2021.
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“Collaborating against Coloniality: Insights from Maya Historical Archaeologies.” Anthropology Lecture Series, University of Texas at Austin, November 23rd, 2020.
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“Political Violence, Periodization, and an Indigenous Archaeology of the Caste War of Yucatan.” Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, November 6th, 2020.
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“Against the “Workmen” Model (and Other Mechanisms of Injustice in Archaeology).” John T. J. Ho Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology, Florida State University, October 27th, 2020.
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“Race, War, and Roads: An Indigenous Archaeology of a Maya Insurrection.” Faculty and Graduate Student Guest-led Seminar. Florida State University, October 26th, 2020.
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“Dissent, Community Stratification, and Small but Meaningful Successes.” Co-authored with Bartolomé Poot Moo, and Lucia Chan Tuz. 41st Annual Ethnography in Education Forum. University of Pennsylvania, February 21-22, 2020.
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"Heritage as Liberation?" Society for Historical Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11th, 2020.
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“Métodos Colaborativos para la Arqueología de la Guerra Social Maya: Reflexiones de Tihosuco, Quintana Roo.” XI Congreso Internacional de Mayistas: Tradiciones y Reelaboraciones, June 23-29, 2019.
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AWARDS
Fellowships
2018-2019 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
2012-2019 Louis J. Kolb Society Junior Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
2012-2017 F. S. Pepper/William Fontaine Society Fellowship for Graduate Education, University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences.
2009-2011 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) and Graduate Initiatives Program (2012-2019), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Select Grants & Awards
2018 Sylvia Forman Graduate Paper Prize Honorable Mention, Association of Feminist Anthropologists.
​2016 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation. “The Effect of Violence on Domestic Social Organization.”
2015 Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Grant, Duke University Consortium for Latin American Studies. For the UNC Yucatec Maya Summer Institute, Level 1.
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