Meaghan M. Peuramäki-Brown

Meaghan is an anthropological archaeologist who maintains an active, cross-cultural, theory-based research program, incorporating significant collaborative and cross-disciplinary pursuits. Her interests to date have focused on the built environment and exchange-consumption studies of material culture: investigating how individuals, households, and communities negotiate their integration in locally and regionally defined socio-political and economic institutions, and the impact of such negotiation on overall processes of urbanization. While her past research has focused heavily on the archaeology of households and communities, her more recent work considers larger issues related to landscape and urbanism among the ancient Maya. Her current fieldwork is focused on rapid resource-based urbanism (rapid growth communities) at Alabama, Belize, and on multiple nuclei urbanism at Yaxnohcah, Mexico. Fellow interview with Dr. Peuramäki-Brown.