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Davíd Carrasco is a historian of religions specializing in
hermeneutics in the study of religion, Mesoamerican 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). 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 has recently 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. Carrasco has received the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle,
the highest honor the Mexican government gives to a foreign national.
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