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Davíd Carrasco is a historian of religions specializing in hermeneutics
in the study of religion, Mesoamerican cities and religions, and the Mexican-American borderlands.
He is director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, which was founded at
the University of Colorado, where he taught from 1977 to 1993. He then moved to Princeton University,
where he taught from 1993 to 2001, when he came to Harvard. His work has been focused on the symbolic
nature of cities in comparative perspective, utilizing his 20 years of research in the excavations
and archives associated with the sites of Teotihuacan and Mexico-Tenochtitlan. This has resulted
in publications on ritual violence and sacred space; the Great Aztec Temple, the myth of Quetzalcoatl,
the Feathered Serpent; and the history of religions in Mesoamerica. Recent collaborative publications
include Breaking Through Mexico's Past: Digging the Aztecs With Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (2007)
and Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 (2007;
gold winner of the 2008 PubWest Book Design Award in the academic book/nontrade category).
His work has included a special emphasis on the religious dimensions of Latino experience:
mestizaje, the myth of Aztlan, transculturation, and La Virgen de Guadalupe. He is co-producer of
the film Alambrista: The Director's Cut, which puts a human face on the life and struggles of
undocumented Mexican farm workers in the United States, and he edited Alambrista
and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants
(University of New Mexico Press). He is editor-in-chief of the award-winning three-volume
Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. His most recent publication is a new abridgement
of Bernal Díaz del Castillo's memoir of the conquest of Mexico, History of the Conquest of
New Spain (University of New Mexico Press). Carrasco has received the Mexican Order
of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor the Mexican government gives to a foreign national.
On leave academic year 2008-09.
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