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Dr Rosamund Fitzmaurice

  • British Academy Postdoctoral & LKAS Fellow (History)

Biography

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow. My research is interdisciplinary, using sources and methodologies from history,
archaeology and art history.

My current project is entitled 'Labour, power, and control in Precolonial Mesoamerica, 600-1521 CE'.

  • PhD, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
    Thesis: Precolumbian Mesoamerican Dependency and Forced Labour in Maya, Nahua, and Mixtec Cultures, CE 600-1521. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189574
  • M.A., Institute of Archaeology, University College London
    Dissertation: Pre-Columbian Maya Graffiti: New Insights from Xunantunich, Belize. 
  • M.A., Classical Studies, University of Edinburgh

Research interests

  • Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
  • Labour management 
  • Dependency
  • Maya Archaeology
  • Architectural Energetics
  • Museum collections
  • Indigenous Codices

Publications

Prior publications

Article

Rosamund E. Fitzmaurice (2023) Malintzin’s Origins: Slave? Or Cultural Confusion? Ethnohistory Rosamund Fitzmaurice. ISSN 1527-5477 (doi: 10.1215/00141801-10443447)

Rosamund E. Fitzmaurice (2022) Review of Whittaker G. 2021. Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Guide to Nahuatl Writing Papers from the Institute of Archaeology Rosamund Fitzmaurice. ISSN 2041-9015 (doi: 10.14324/111.444.2041-9015.1445)

Conference Proceedings

(2021) Play and Purpose: The Relationship Between Patolli and Graffiti at Xunantunich, Belize Timeless Spaces 2019 Conference Proceedings Rosamund Fitzmaurice. (doi: 10.14324/111.444.2041-9015.1286)