Join us for a brown bag lecture on Friday, April 27, at 2:00 pm, by Dr. Thomas G. Garrison, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ithaca College. Bring your own lunch; drinks and refreshments provided.

This lunchtime discussion is presented as part of 7000 Fragments: Maya Murals from San Bartolo, Guatemala, a project of the Skidmore Faculty Scholar-in-Residence Heather Hurst, Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology.

The project is supported by the Office of the Dean of Special Programs; The Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning; the Tang Teaching Museum; and the Dean of the Faculty/Vice President for Academic Affairs office.

This event is free and open to the public.

About Dr. Garrison

Dr. Thomas G. Garrison previously taught at the University of Southern California, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Brown University and Umeå Universitet, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2007, writing his dissertation on the application of remote sensing technologies to the settlement investigations at San Bartolo, Guatemala. He has collaborated with the Marshall Space and Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Lab, and the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping to develop applications of remote sensing technologies in archaeology. Since 2012, he has served as the Director of the Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, following three years of regional investigations around the site. He is a co-author of Temple of the Night Sun: A Royal Tomb at El Diablo (2015) and co-editor of the forthcoming volume An Inconstant Landscape: The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala (2018). Since 2016, he has served as an advisor to the PACUNAM LiDAR Initiative, the largest remote sensing and GIS project ever established in Mesoamerica.