2001-present Ph.D. program, Department of History, University of Chicago
1998-present Ph.D. program, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
2004 ABD, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
2004 ABD, Department of History, University of Chicago
2000 MA, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
1998 MA, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
1994 BA with Honors, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
2004 History Department Prize for Outstanding Dissertation Proposal 2003-4, University of Chicago
2001-2004 Mellon Fellowship in Latin American History, University of Chicago
2003 History Department Qualifying Exams: Passed With Distinction, University of Chicago
2001 Roy D. Albert Prize for MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
1999-2001 University Unendowed Scholarship, University of Chicago
1998-2001 Century Scholarship, University of Chicago
1998-present Associate Member, Sigma Xi
1996 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
1995-1998 Graduate Fellowship and Topping Award, Vanderbilt University
1994 Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University
1994 Magna Cum Laude with Honors, Brown University
1994 William Gaston Premium Scholarship for Honors Thesis Research, Brown University
1994 Moranis Prize in Art History, Brown University
2005-2006 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Individual Research Grant for dissertation: Archivo Historico Nacional and Archivo del Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain (3 months); Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico City, Mexico (5 months); Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain (3.5 months)
2005 Archivo de Instrumentos Públicos de Guadalajara, Biblioteca Pública del Estado de Jalisco, and Archivo de Arzobispado de Guadalajara, Mexico (2 weeks).
2004 Archivo Histórico Nacional and Archivo General de Indias, Spain (5 weeks), Mellon Summer Travel Grant
2003 Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Oaxaca, Mexico (2 weeks); Archivo del Reino de Valencia, Spain (5 weeks), Mellon Summer Travel Grant
2002 Archivo Histórico Nacional, Spain (4 weeks), Tinker Travel Grant
2001 Archivo Histórico Nacional and Archivo General de Indias, Spain (4 weeks), Center For Latin American Studies Travel Grant; Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico (2 weeks), Mellon Summer Travel Grant
1998 Proyecto Arqueológico San Francisco de Arriba, Mexico (1 week mapping), dir. Andrew Workinger, Vanderbilt University
1994 Proyecto Arqueológico Cholula 1994, Mexico (3 weeks excavation, 3 weeks labwork), dir. Geoff McCafferty, Brown University and Sergio Suarez Cruz, INAH
In Press Dana Leibsohn and Barbara Mundy. Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish American 1520-1820 DVD-web hybrid. Project manager Byron Hamann.
2001 Liza Bakewell and Byron Hamann. Mesolore: Exploring Mesoamerican Culture CD-ROM-web hybrid. Providence: Brown University.
2005 Liza Bakewell and Byron Hamann. "Mesolore: Teaching to Think Critically." Archaeologies 1(2):71-82.
2004 Arthur Joyce, Andrew Workinger, Byron Hamann, Peter Kroefges, Mike Oland, and Stacie King. "Lord Eight Deer 'Jaguar Claw' and the Land of the Sky: the archaeology and history of Tututepec." Latin American Antiquity 15(3):273-97.
2004 "'In the eyes of the Mixtecs/to view several pages simultaneously': seeing and the Mixtec screenfolds." Visible Language 38(1):68-123.
2003 "What did Mesoamerican commoners think about 'pre-sunrise things'? Reply." Current Anthropology 44(2).
2002 "The social life of pre-sunrise things: indigenous Mesoamerican archaeology." Current Anthropology 43(3):351-82.
1998 "First-born son of a first-born son? Discontinuous succession in the Codex Selden." Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures 13:53-58, Fall 1998.
1998 John Monaghan and Byron Hamann. "Reading as Social Practice and Cultural Construction." Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures 13:131-140, Fall 1998.
In Press "Heirlooms and Ruins: High Culture, Mesoamerican Civilization, and the Postclassic Oaxacan Tradition." Accepted for publication in After Monte Alban: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico, edited by Jeffrey Blomster. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
2006 "Child martyrs and murderous children: age and agency in sixteenth-century transatlantic religious conflict." In The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by Traci Arden and Scott Hutson. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
2004 Arthur Joyce, Andrew Workinger, and Byron Hamann."Tututepec: un centro imperial del postclásico tardio en la Costa Oaxaqueña." In Estructuras políticas en el Oaxaca antiguo: memoria de la Tercera Mesa Redonda de Monte Albán, edited by Nelly M. Robles García, 205-230. Mexico: INAH.
2002 "Writing." In The encyclopedia of historical archaeology, edited by Charles Orser, 581-84. London: Routledge.
2000 John Monaghan and Byron Hamann. "La construcción cultural de la lectura en Mesoamérica." In Codices y documentos sobre México, tercero simposio, edited by Constanza Vega, 485-492. México: INAH.
1997 "Weaving and the iconography of prestige: The royal gender symbolism of Lord 5 Flower's/Lady 4 Rabbit's family." In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by Cheryl Claassen and Rosemary Joyce, 153-172. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
2005 Review of Rabinal Achi: A Mayan drama of War and Sacrifice. Ethnohistory 52(2):496-97.
2003 Review of Searching for the Secrets of Nature and The Mexican Treasury. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17(1):124-126.
2001 Review of The Myth of Quetzalcoatl. Hispanic American Historical Review, November 2000.
1999 Review of Myths of Ancient Mexico. Hispanic American Historical Review, November 1999:740-741.
1996 Review of In the Realm of Eight Deer: The Archaeology of the Mixtec Codices. Nahua Newsletter 21:26-30.
2005 "Nahuatl Potsherds." American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington DC.
2005 "Art hysteria: social science, visual culture, fragmentation, and decipherment." 93rd College Art Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA.
2004 "The mirrors of Las Meninas: cochineal, silver, and clay." 25th Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Las Vegas, NV.
2004 "Ñudzahui archaeology." 11th Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, NV.
2003 "Heirlooms and ruins: high culture, Mesoamerican civilization, and the Postclassic Oaxacan tradition." 68th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Milwaukee, WI.
2002 Arthur Joyce, Byron Hamann, and Andrew Workinger. "Tututepec: Centro de un imperio del Postclásico tardío en la Costa de Oaxaca." Tercera Mesa Redonda de Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2002 "How Maya Hieroglyphs Got Their Name: Alphabets and Egypt in Early Modern Europe." Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Conference, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
2002 "Reduction: Memory and the Civilizing Process in the Early Modern New Spains." Mellon Latin American History Conference, New Haven, CT.
2002 "Serpent sight/parsed pages: styles of seeing and the Mixtec screenfolds." 9th Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, NV.
2002 "How Maya hieroglyphs got their name: Western grammatology and pictographic anagogy since the 15th century." Workshop for Latin American Anthropology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2001 "Reduction: Memory and the Civilizing Process in the Early Modern New Spains." Workshop for Latin American Anthropology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2001 "Mesolore: Multimedia Mixtec Research." 8th Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, NV.
2001 Arthur Joyce, Andrew Workinger, Byron Hamann, Peter Kroefges, Mike Oland, and Stacie King. "Archaeological survey of Tututepec: a Postclassic imperial center on the Oaxaca Coast." 66th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meetings, New Orleans, LA.
2000 "Forms of Social Conflict in the Yanhuitlán Idolatry Trial." 7th Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, NV.
2000 "Indigenous Mesoamerican Archaeology: The Social Life of Pre-Sunrise Things." Colonial Latin American Representations Workshop, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1999 "Shining/Mosaics: Writing and other Mesoamerican Instruments of Seeing." Paper presented at the 65th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Chicago, IL.
1999 "Mixtec Codices as Instruments of Seeing." 6th Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, NV.
1999 "Seeing Corn in Ancient Mesoamerica." 22nd Midwest Mesoamericanist Meetings, Chicago, IL.
1999 "Shining/Mosaics: Writing and other Mesoamerican Instruments of Seeing." Colonial Latin American Representations Workshop, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1998 "Mixtec Genealogies as 'Lineage Songs/Dances/Representations': Implications for Codical Interpretation." American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA.
1998 "Some thoughts on the War of Heaven." 5th Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, NV.
1997 "First-Born Son of a First-Born Son? Rethinking Kinship and Succession in the Mixtec Codices." Symposium on Mexican Codices and Archaeology, Bloomington, IN.
1997 John Monaghan and Byron Hamann. "The Social Construction of Reading in Mesoamerica." 1997 Maya Meetings, Austin, TX.
1996 Byron Hamann, Mark King, and John Monaghan. "Metaphors of Reading in Mesoamerica." American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA.
1996 John Monaghan and Byron Hamann. "Symbolism and Metaphor of the Book in Mesoamerica." Tercero Simposio Internacional Sobre Codices y Documentos de México, Puebla, Mexico.
1994 Byron Hamann. "The Face of the Other: Politics, Propaganda, and Make-Up in the Codex Nuttall." Northeastern Anthropological Association Meetings, Geneseo, NY.
1994 Byron Hamann. "Weaving and the Iconography of Power: The Royal Gender Symbolism of Lord Five Flower's (Lady Four Rabbit's) Family." Third Archaeology and Gender Conference, Boone, NC.
1994 Geoffrey McCafferty, Sharisse D. McCafferty, and Byron Hamann. "Powerful Women of Pre-Colombian Oaxaca." American Anthropological Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA.
2004 "Seeing, blindness, and the materiality of reading: the Mixtec screenfolds." Art Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1999 "Multimedia Design and Mesoamerican Studies." Faculty Multimedia Workshop, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
1999 "History, Economy, and Politics in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica." Mesolore and Indigenous Issues Summer Institute, Latin American Studies Consortium of New England, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1999 "The Mixtecs and their Writing System." Mesolore and Indigenous Issues Summer Institute, Latin American Studies Consortium of New England, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1998 "Covenantal Relations in the Mixtec Codices." Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
2005 Byron Hamann and Kam Manahan. "Ancient Archaeologies: Reoccupation and Reuse in Mesoamerica and the Andes." Session organized for the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington DC.
1999 Monica Bellas and Byron Hamann. "Writing and other Mesoamerican Instruments of Seeing." Session organized for the 65th Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Chicago, IL.
2004 Instructor, Anthropology of writing: local scripts in colonial contexts, University of Illinois-Chicago.
2002 TA (Tamar Herzog), History of European Law, University of Chicago
1998 TA (Annabeth Headrick), Images of Culture, Vanderbilt University
1997 TA (Edward Fisher), Introduction to Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
1997 TA (Bill Fowler), Rise and Fall of Civilizations, Vanderbilt University
1996 TA (Brian Hemphill), Evolutionism and Creationism, Vanderbilt University
1996 TA (Catherine Howard), Images of Culture, Vanderbilt University
1995 TA (John Monaghan), Introduction to Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
2003-present Senior Project Consultant, The
Mesolore Project, Brown University.
2000-present Project Manager, Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America 1520-1820 DVD-web project, Smith College, Northampton, MA/Fordham College, New York, NY.
2000-2002 Research assistant for George W. Stocking, Jr., University of Chicago.
1999-2001 Graduate Student Coordinator, Workshop in the Anthropology of Latin America, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1996-2001 Co-Author, Mesolore: Exploring Mesoamerican Culture CD-ROM project, Brown University, Providence, RI
1996-1997 Editorial Assistant, Ancient Mesoamerica, Nashville, TN
1995-1998 Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
1995 Summer Graduate Fellow, PROLARTI multimedia project, Brown University, Providence, RI