| Ruben G. Mendoza Ruben G. Mendoza is a founding faculty member and professor of CSU Monterey Bay's Center for Social and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Institute for Archaeological Science, Technology, and Visualization. Dr. Mendoza completed his undergraduate degree at the California State University Bakersfield (1978), and his Master of Arts (1980) and Doctor of Philosophy (1992) degrees at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Though trained as an anthropologist and archaeologist with a Mesoamerican archaeology emphasis, he has extensive experience in visual anthropology, documentary photography, virtual reality and digital imaging; and has presented professional papers and talks before groups throughout the US, Europe, and Mexico. |
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He has collaborated on a number of recent
multimedia and educational courseware development projects, including
project efforts and publications with Scholastic Inc., Prentice-Hall,
McGraw-Hill, Salem Press, and Terra Associates of New York. Accordingly,
Dr. Mendoza is the featured Literacy Place Mentor for Scholastic’s popular
Time Detectives grade school curriculum and its Solares
Spanish language programs currently in use throughout the nation.
In addition, his projects have been featured on CNN Headline News
(CNN) on two separate occasions, Fox News, and in the Associated
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His current efforts include multimedia
and community network resource development with the Carl Luck Museum and
Old Mission San Juan Bautista -- where he is the principal investigator
and project archaeologist. His ongoing archaeological efforts at
Old Mission San Juan Bautista (SBN1H) are intended to provide a cultural
reconstruction, re-mapping, and virtual reconstruction of that site’s
architectural and cultural history. Past projects include his work
as principal investigator of the Crescent Rockshelter (5JF148) on the
Colorado Front Range and the Caribou Ranch pedestrian survey. Collaborative
investigations in Mesoamerica include the excavation and mapping of the
main pyramid complex at Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, the excavation of the
16th Century Ex-convento de la Concepcion in the city of Puebla, Puebla,
Mexico, excavations at the ancient civic-ceremonial complex of Cañada
de la Virgen, Guanajuato, Mexico, and excavations and contract archaeology
on the Monterey Bay and in the Southern San Joaquin Valley of California. |
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His publications have been featured in
Antiquity, World Archaeology, American Antiquity,
Journal de la Societe des Americanistes, America’s Historic
Sites, McGill’s Guide to Military History, Handbook of Hispanic
Cultures in the United States, The Latino Encyclopedia, Oxford
Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, Encyclopedia of North American
History, and in the Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology,
and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. His recent works include
book chapters in the American Anthropological Association’s Cultural
Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader (2001), U.S.
Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives (2000),
and Emerging Technologies in Teaching Languages and Cultures (2001). |
He is past president of the Association
of Latina and Latino Anthropologists, and was recently named to the charter
Board of Director's of the California Missions Foundation and to the Committee
for Human Rights of the American Anthropological Association. |
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