I graduated in Archaeology from Université Toulouse II - Le Mirail (France) after completing a BA dissertation on the Classic period (AD 200-900) Lowlands Maya stelae.
Following my interest in Maya studies, and more particularly iconography, I decided to focus on the Early Classic period (AD 200-566) which had been barely investigated.
Later in 2002, I received an MA in Archaeology from the Institute of Art and Archaeology, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. My topic of research was the iconography of Early Classic ceramics from the Maya Lowlands. Envisioned as an introduction to a Ph.D., the MA dissertation addressed methodological issues related to the study of the iconography depicted on these ceramics.
The iconographic study itself was carried out with a Ph.D. in Anthropology / Archaeology, which I obtained in 2008 from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The aim of my Ph.D. dissertation has been to provide stylistic and iconographic analysis as well as to place this data into its socio-cultural, ideological, political, and environmental contexts.
This work was awarded the highest merits by a committee composed of R.A. Joyce (U.C. Berkeley), M.-C. Arnauld (CNRS - UMR 8096), A. Lacadena Garcia Gallo (Universidad Complutense Madrid), C.-F. Baudez (CNRS - UMR 8096) and D. Michelet (CNRS - UMR 8096).
My actual research interests focus on the Preclassic to Classic transition and the emergence of Classic Maya civilisation during the Early Classic (2nd to 6th centuries AD). Barely studied, poorly understood, this period has been a time of profound changes and great innovations.
To understand the dynamics through which change occurred, I explore various topics such as Maya iconography and worldviews, Material culture and innovations, Environmental stress, crisis and socio-cultural adaptation, Networks of contact and exchange, Semiotics, and Design and communication.
Following my interest in Maya studies, and more particularly iconography, I decided to focus on the Early Classic period (AD 200-566) which had been barely investigated.
Later in 2002, I received an MA in Archaeology from the Institute of Art and Archaeology, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. My topic of research was the iconography of Early Classic ceramics from the Maya Lowlands. Envisioned as an introduction to a Ph.D., the MA dissertation addressed methodological issues related to the study of the iconography depicted on these ceramics.
The iconographic study itself was carried out with a Ph.D. in Anthropology / Archaeology, which I obtained in 2008 from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The aim of my Ph.D. dissertation has been to provide stylistic and iconographic analysis as well as to place this data into its socio-cultural, ideological, political, and environmental contexts.
This work was awarded the highest merits by a committee composed of R.A. Joyce (U.C. Berkeley), M.-C. Arnauld (CNRS - UMR 8096), A. Lacadena Garcia Gallo (Universidad Complutense Madrid), C.-F. Baudez (CNRS - UMR 8096) and D. Michelet (CNRS - UMR 8096).
My actual research interests focus on the Preclassic to Classic transition and the emergence of Classic Maya civilisation during the Early Classic (2nd to 6th centuries AD). Barely studied, poorly understood, this period has been a time of profound changes and great innovations.
To understand the dynamics through which change occurred, I explore various topics such as Maya iconography and worldviews, Material culture and innovations, Environmental stress, crisis and socio-cultural adaptation, Networks of contact and exchange, Semiotics, and Design and communication.