Karl James Lorenzen, Ph.D.

40000 Tinderbox WayMurrieta, CA 92562

Phone: 951.696.1061Email: karljameslorenzen@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Anthropology, 2003 – Specializing in Mesoamerican Art and Archaeology, University of California, Riverside (worked with Karl Taube).

Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University, 1999 – 2000 – One year pre-doctoral fellowship in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Pre-Columbian Studies Program, Trustees of Harvard University (worked with Jeff Quilter).

M.A. Anthropology, 1997 – Specializing in Mesoamerican, Southwest, and Southern California Archaeology, University of California, Riverside (worked with Karl Taube).

B.S. Anthropology, 1992 – Specializing in CRM and Southern California Archaeology, University of California, Riverside (worked with Phil Wilke).

Upper-Division Honors Program, 1991 – 1992 – Senior Thesis and Graduation with Upper-Division Honors. University of California, Riverside.

A.A. Business Administration Major and Anthropology Minor, 1990 – Saddleback Community College (worked with Patricia Martz).

EDUCATION ABROAD PROGRAM

Graduate Program, 1995 – 1996 – Academic year at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Instituto Investigaciones Antropologicas (IIA), Mexico City, Mexico.

Graduate Program, Summer 1995 – Intensive Spanish language and history program at the Centro Ensenanza Para Extranjeros (CEPE), UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.

Undergraduate Program, Summer 1992 – Intensive Spanish language and history program, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicholas de Hidalgo (UMSNH), Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Spanish – very conversational to fluent

EMPLOYMENT

Undergraduate Research Program, 2005 – 2006 – UC Merced, one-year temporary position. Served as an Administrative Specialist supporting 26 tenured faculty teaching required undergraduate courses and

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assisting in the development of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities, Freshman Seminar Program, and Undergraduate Research Journal.

Undergraduate Research Center and Center for Academic Research Excellence, 2002 – 2004 – UCLA contract position serving as Assistant Director responsible for administrating the Student Research Program, Freshman Seminar Program, CityLab High School Science Outreach Program, UCLA Undergraduate Science Journal, and coordinated the annual UCLA Science Poster Day event.

Laboratory for Historical Research, 1997 – 1999 – UC Riverside, served as an Administrative Assistant II for the Editor of the journal Historical Methods, handling all aspects related to article solicitation, submission, editing, and coordinating with Heldref Publications (Washington, D.C.) for it’s quarterly publication.

Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program and Department of Entomology, 1996 – 1997 – UC Riverside, served as Assistant to the Chair for the Department of Entomology and Contracts and Grants Coordinator for the Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program.

Archaeological Research Unit, Department of Anthropology, 1991 – 1995 – UC Riverside, served as a part-time student employee (Field and Lab Archaeologist) involved in all aspects of CRM contract archaeology for the ARU.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

CityLab: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology 194, UCLA – Fall, Winter, Spring 2003 – 2004, Faculty Advisor and Course Instructor for teaching practicum.

Undergraduate Science Journal: Honors 101B, UCLA – Fall and Winter 2003 – 2004, Faculty Advisor and Course Instructor for teaching practicum.

Unearthing Ancient Maya History and Religion: Honors 98, Sec 38 UCLA Freshman Seminar – Winter 2003, Fiat Lux Freshman Seminar Course Instructor.

World Prehistory: Anthropology 3, UCR – Spring 1995, Teaching Assistant for Karl Taube (Course Instructor).

Archaeology of Eastern Mesoamerica: Anthropology 118B, UCR – Winter 1994, Teaching Assistant for Karl Taube (Course Instructor).

Introduction to Archaeology, Anthropology 5, UCR – Fall 1993, Teaching Assistant for Scott Fedick (Course Instructor).

Archaeology of Western Mesoamerica: Anthropology 118A, UCR – Winter 1994, Research Assistant for Karl Taube (Course Instructor).

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Proyecto El Naranjal II, 2001 – Principal Investigator and Field Director of Dissertation Field Project funded by Earthwatch Institute International.

Proyecto El Narajal I, 1999 - Principal Investigator and Field Director of Dissertation Field Project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Foundation for Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI), UC Mexus Dissertation Grant Program, and UCR Graduate Program.

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Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project II, 1996 – Field Supervisor (co-Director) of UC Riverside field project directed by Scott Fedick.

Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project I, 1993 – Project Student Archaeologist with UC Riverside field project co-directed by Karl Taube and Scott Fedick.

CRM Field Projects, 1988 – 1995 – Project Archaeologist for the various CRM contracting firms in Orange and Riverside Counties and Student Project Archaeologist for numerous CRM contracts through the Archaeological Research Unit (ARU) at UC Riverside.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Submitted – Ritual Cave Use and Miniature Masonry Water Shrines: Late Postclassic Religion in the Northern Maya Lowlands – submitted summer 2006 to Latin American Archaeology.

2005 - Ancestor Deification in Ancient Maya Ritual and Religion: Late Postclassic Community Shrines and Family Oratories – Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences: Vol. 91(4):25-47, Winter 2005.

1999 – New Discoveries at El Naranjal: Late Postclassic Architectural Reuse and the Ritual Recycling of Cultural Geography – MEXICON XXI:98-107.

1995 – Late Postclassic Reuse of Early Classic Monumental Architecture at El Naranjal – In The View from Yalahau: 1993 Archaeological Investigations in Northern Quintana Roo, Mexico. Karl Taube and Scott Fedick eds., pp: 57-77. Latin American Studies Program, Field Report Series, No. 2, UC Riverside.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

2003 – Miniature Masonry Shrines of the Yucatan Peninsula: Ancestor Deification in Late Postclassic Maya Ritual and Religion – Doctoral Thesis, Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside. Dissertation Committee: Karl Taube (Chair), Phil Wilke (UCR), Scott Fedick (UCR), Francis Berdan (CSUSB).

TECHNICAL REPORTS

2001 – Unearthing Maya History: Expedition Brief – Earthwatch Institute International.

1998 – Excavaciones el las sascaberas de El Naranjal – In El proycto Yalahau: Informe tecnico final sobre las investigaciones arqueologicas de 1996 – 1997 en el norte de Quintana Roo, Mexico : pp. 84 – 108.

1997 – Excavations in Sascabera Pits at El Naranjal – In The Yalahau Project: Preliminary Technical Report on the 1996 Archaeological Investigations in Northern Quintana Roo, Mexico: pp. 21 – 31.

1991b – Cultural Resources Assessment: Tentative Parcel 26826, City of Indio, Riverside, Californa – CRM final report prepared for Donald Stratton, Coachella Masonic Temple Association. Report UCRARU #1163, on file at the Eastern Information Center, Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside.

1991a – Historic Building Survey, Tract 22100-1: Mockingbird Canyon Area of Riverside County, California – CRM final report prepared for Sandy Throop, Director of Planning and Acuisitions, CalProp Corporation, Los Angeles. Report UCARU #1128, on file at the Eastern Information Center, Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside.

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PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

2001b – 66 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA – Invited paper (Postclassic Yucatec Water Shrines and Ritual Cave Use) presented in symposium Pre-columbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power.

2001a – 66 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA – Invited paper (Miniature Masonry Shrines of the Yucatan Peninsula) presented by co-author Darcy Wiewall in symposium 1999 – 2000 Field Investigations in the Northern Maya Lowlands.

2000 – Dumbarton Oaks Research Library – Final report (Ancestral Deity Veneration: A Functional Interpretation of Late Postclassic Shrine Complexes at El Naranjal, Quintana Roo, Mexico) to research fellows and junior fellows.

1999b – Bowditch Roundtable Research Series, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University – Invited paper (Late Postclassic Shrine Complexes at El Naranjal, Mexico) presented to the department of Anthropology and Peabody Museum staff.

1999a – Dumbarton Oaks Research Library – Required research report (1999 Field Excavations at El Naranjal, Quintana Roo, Mexico) to Pre-columbian Studies fellow and junior fellows.

1998 – 63 rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA – Invited paper (Sascabera Midden Excavations at El Naranjal: Evidence of Late Postclassic Residential Reoccupation) presented in symposium 1996 – 1997 Field Results of the Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Progject.

1994 – 59 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anahiem, CA – Invited paper (Late Postclassic Reuse of Early Classic Monumental Architecture at El Naranjal, Quintana Roo, Mexico) presented in symposium The Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project: Ancient Maya Political Structure and Resource Management in the Northern Maya Lowlands.

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATIONS

2001 – 21 st Symposium in Plant and Animal Biology, UC Riverside, CA – Invited research poster (Small Game Trapping in a Yucatec Maya Community) co-authored with Dominique Rissolo, Kevin Hovey, and Chuck Buscaren.

1998 – 18 th Annual James C. Young Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside – Research poster presented titled Chaak Roads: Ritual Procession in Ancient Maya Rain Ceremonies.

1997 – Annual UC Riverside Research Day – Research poster presented titled Traditional Maya Tsu’Tsui Traps: Contemporary Maya Bird Trapping Technology. Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS

Society of American Archaeology (SAA)

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

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