Category
page 1American Mesoamericanists

Benjamin Lee Whorf
American linguist (1897–1941)
Alfred L. Kroeber
American anthropologist (1876–1960)

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
French naturalist (1783-1840)

William Hickling Prescott
American historian and Hispanist (1796–1859)
John Lloyd Stephens
American explorer, writer, and diplomat (1805–1852)
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
American Mayanist scholar (1909-1985)
Sylvanus Morley
American archaeologist, epigrapher, Mayanist scholar, and WWI spy for the U.S. (1883–1948)
Oliver La Farge
American novelist, anthropologist (1901–1963)
Alex Hrdlicka
Czech-American anthropologist
Lyle Campbell
American Mesoamericanist
Michael D. Coe
American Mesoamericanist (1929-2019)
Edward Herbert Thompson
American mesoamericanist (1857–1935)
William Henry Holmes
American academic, painter and illustrator (1846-1933)
Daniel Garrison Brinton
American archaeologist and ethnologist (1837-1899)
Zelia Nuttall
American archaeologist and anthropologist (1857-1933)
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
American archaeologist (1840-1914)
Ronald Langacker
Professor emeritus in the field of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.
William Bright
American linguist (1928–2006)
Cyrus Thomas
American Mesoamericanist and entomologist (1825-1910)
R. H. Barlow
American anthropologist (1918–1951)
Merle Greene Robertson
American Mesoamericanist (1913-2011)
Robert Redfield
American anthropologist (1897–1958)

Matthew Stirling
American Mesoamericanist (1896–1975)

Frederic Ward Putnam
United States archaeologist, ethnologist and curator (1839–1915)
Ephraim George Squier
American archaeologist and newspaper editor (1821–1888)
Anne Chapman
American anthropologist (1922–2010)
David Stuart
American Mayanist, linguist and epigrapher
Linda Schele
American mesoamericanist
Anthony Aveni
American astronomer and anthropologist
Gordon Willey
American archaeologist (1913–2002)
George Kubler
American art historian (1912-1996)
Alfred V. Kidder
American archaeologist (1885-1963)
Floyd Lounsbury
American mesoamericanist (1914–1998)
Joyce Marcus
American archaeologist
Terrence Kaufman
American academic (1937–2022)
Karl Taube
American Mesoamericanist
John Alden Mason
American archaeological anthropologist and linguist (1885–1967)
Alfred Tozzer
American anthropologist (1877–1954)
Doris Bartholomew
American linguist
James Lockhart
American historian of Latin America (1933–2014)
Mary Miller
American art historian and Dean of Yale College

Anabel Ford
archaeologist from the United States specializing in Mayan culture, also discovered the El Pilar site
Richard Blanton
American academic
David H. Kelley
American genealogist (1924-2011)

Robert Sharer
American archaeologist (1940–2012)
Sophie D. Coe
American anthropologist, food historian and author
David Carrasco
American Mesoamericanist
Kent V. Flannery
American archaeologist
Charles Gibson
American Mesoamericanist
Stephen D. Houston
American Mesoamericanist
Susan D. Gillespie
American academic anthropologist and archaeologist; Mesoamericanist
Marshall Howard Saville
American archaeologist (1867–1935)
Elizabeth P. Benson
American Mesoamericanist
Evon Z. Vogt
American anthropologist
Elin C. Danien
American anthropologist

Victoria Bricker
American anthropologist

Pamela Munro
American linguist
Herbert Spinden
American anthropologist, archeologist and art historian
Nora England
American Mesoamericanist
Ursula Cowgill
American biologist and anthropologist