Rate My Professor David Stuart

Stuart's research centers on the archaeology and epigraphy of ancient Maya civilization, encompassing Maya iconography, religion, and political history. He conducts fieldwork at sites including Copan in Honduras, Palenque in Mexico, Piedras Negras, La Corona, and San Bartolo in Guatemala, and oversees the university's Casa Herrera research center in Antigua, Guatemala. His influential publications include the books Palenque: Eternal City of the Maya (Thames and Hudson, 2008), The Order of Days (Random House, 2012), King and Cosmos: A New Interpretation of the Aztec Calendar Stone (Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, 2022), and Spearthrower Owl: A Teotihuacan Ruler in Maya History (Dumbarton Oaks, 2024). Notable scholarly works co-authored with Stephen Houston comprise The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya (University of Texas Press, 2006) and Of Gods, Glyphs and Kings: Divinity and Rulership among the Classic Maya (Antiquity, 1996). Stuart's scholarship has profoundly shaped understandings of Classic Maya rulership, texts, and representations.