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Charles S. Spencer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charles S. Spencer

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Dr. Charles S. Spencer is Chair of the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He is also Curator of Mexican and Central American Archaeology.

"Dr. Spencer is an internationally renowned anthropological archaeologist specializing in the origins of hierarchical societies and the rise of the first political states in Mesoamerica, where he has been conducting fieldwork for more than 25 years. His focus is the Oaxaca Valley and surrounding regions, a mountainous part of southern Mexico that is home to the Zapotec people. He is also widely recognized as a leader in the application of evolutionary theory and socio-political concepts to the study of prehistoric cultural change and has formulated a mathematical model of pristine state formation."[1]

Dr. Spencer received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, where he wrote a dissertation entitled "The Cuicatlán Cañada and Monte Albán: Interregional Processes and Primary State Formation in Central Oaxaca." He has over ninety publications to date, including books, chapters, and articles. Since the 1970s, Spencer has conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork in Mexico and Venezuela and has supervised many dissertation projects of his graduate students. Prior to his appointment at the AMNH in 1991, he was Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut.[2]

In 2007, Dr. Spencer was elected by his peers to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the highest honor a scientist can receive from a U.S.-based organization. At his induction ceremony in April 2008, NAS President Ralph Cicerone lauded Dr. Spencer as "the leading evolutionary archaeologist of his generation." The citation continues: "His fieldwork has documented the rise of entrepreneurial rank societies, the origin of the stratified militaristic state, and the strategies of imperial colonization. His work combines empirical data with evolutionary concepts like tempo, mode, biased transmission, and adaptive peaks."[3]

Dr. Spencer is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with his wife and research collaborator, Elsa M. Redmond, Ph.D. They reside in the Connecticut suburbs of New York City.[4]

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