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Recent Courses

Cultural Anthropology
Independent Study Ethngraphic Research
Independent Study Quechua Rituals Past And Present
Indians Of North America
Language And Culture
Origins Of Civilization And State
People'S Of The North
Peoples & Culture Of Mexico
The Developing World: Culture,Conflict,Change
The Developing World: Culture Conflict And Change

Teaching Specializations / Interests

Mesoamerican archaeology
Maya archaeology and ethnohistory
Native Americans
Modern multicultural Mexico
Development and globalization issues

Grants / Sponsored Research

Funded for 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University faculty, June 13-July 12, 2010 to be held on-site in British Columbia and Western Alaska. Co-directed by Laraine Fletcher and George Scheper

2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty June 29-July 26, 2008 to be held on-site in Peru, SA. Co-directed by Laraine Fletcher and George Scheper


2007 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar 2007 “Oaxaca: Crossroads of a Continent”
July 1- Aug. 1, 2007 On-site in Oaxaca, Mexico. Project co-directors Laraine Fletcher and George Scheper

2006 National Endowment for the Humanities for Summer Institute 2006: Maya Worlds of Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize June18-July 29, 2006
Project Co-directors: Laraine Fletcher and George Scheper

Mar2005 National Endowment for the Humanities
five-week Summer Institute: “Andean World: New
Directions in Scholarship and Teaching June 26-July 31
2005. On-site in Peru and Bolivia\ Project Co-Directors Laraine Fletcher and George Scheper.


Mar2004 National Endowment of the Humanities for summer 2004 Title: Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land”.
Project Co-Directors: George Scheper and Laraine Fletcher
On-site in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest

2002 National Endowment for the Humanities award Project Co Director The Maya World: Cultural Continuities and Change in Guatemala, Honduras, Chiapas and Yucatan. June 23-Aug 3, 2002.
Project Co-Directors: Laraine Fletcher and George Scheper

2002 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant – The Maya World: Cultural Traditions in Continuity and June 18-July 29,2000. Summer Institute
Project Cordinator and Co-Director: Laraine Fletcher and George Scheper

2003 Contingency grant $2400 from Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI) for publication costs of
Calakmul manuscript

Summer NEH Summer Program Award – Participant in 6-week program
1995 Center and Periphery: The 16th and 17th centuries and the impact of the conquest on the cultures of the Basin of Mexico and the American southwest in Mexico City and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

May 1993- Fulbright Research Award for continued archaeological work in
The northern sector of Nicaragua – Survey and Mapping Project

1992 National Geographic Society Committee for Research and
Exploration Award for archaeological work in Nicaragua.

1993 Recipient of funding from an NSF grant to Dr. Fred Lange to
attend the Conferencia de Cuajinquil-Cultura Sin Fronteras
May 23-29, 1993 at Cuajinquil, Costa Rica.

Summer 1991
Partial funding from an Organization of the Americas grant given
to the Museo Nacional de Nicaragua for the archaeological survey
in the northern provinces of Madriz and Somoto, Nicaragua.

Summer l990 American Philosophical Society Grant for f ieldwork in Nicaragua
$3,200

Summer l 1989 Adelphi University Small travel grant from $500