Convo: David Carrasco October 7, 2005

Davíd Carrasco, the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School, will present a convocation, titled ?Latinos Remaking America: Immigration, Imagination and Baseball,? at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 7, at the Carleton College Skinner Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Carrasco is a historian of religion with a special emphasis on the religious dimensions of the Latino experience. Using his 20 years of research in the excavations and archives associated with the sites of Teotihuacan and Mexico-Tenochtitian, Carrasco has published works on ritual violence and sacred space, the Great Aztec Temple, the myth of Quetzalcoatl the Feathered Serpent, and the history of religions in Mesoamerica.

Recently, he has been leading a two-year project that has brought together scholars from the U.S. and Mexico to decipher a 16th century codex, the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan from the Puebla region of Mexico. In 2004, Carrasco was awarded the highest honor the Mexican government can bestow on a foreign national, the Order of the Aztec Eagle.

Carrasco received his B.A. from Western Maryland College and his Th.M., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Colorado from 1977 until 1993, when he moved to Princeton University, remaining there until taking his current position in 2001. Carrasco holds a joint appointment with the department of anthropology in the faculty of arts and sciences and also directs the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project. He is the editor-in-chief of the award-winning ?Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures? and co-produced the film ?Alambrista: The Director?s Cut,? which puts a human face on the life and struggles of undocumented Mexican farm workers in the U.S.

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