Biography
Jocelyne M. Ponce obtained a PhD from Tulane University, where she also received her M.A. in Anthropology. She earned her Licenciatura and B.A. from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. She specializes in Maya archaeology, and through her dissertation “Lowland Maya Lifeways across the Settlement Density Continuum at La Corona", explored settlement organization through daily interactions.
Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, and Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honor Society. Ponce has also been awarded fellowships by the American Association of University Women, the Southern Regional Education Board Doctoral Scholars Program, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies Program for Kaqchikel Maya Language. Her research interests include urbanism, social inequality, gender, colonialism, and interregional relations. In addition to her Lowland Maya research, she has an active project focused on inequalities in archaeological practice.