Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Greensboro
439 Graham Building, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, North Carolina, 27402-6170
Email: djnash@uncg.edu
Anthro Office: 336-334-5132
Fax: 336-334-5674
Early states and empires; political economy; household archaeology; linking the household with the state; use of space and the dialectics of the built environment; archeological theory and excavation methodology; women and gender studies; ceramic and lithic technology; the archaeology of ethnicity; culture contact and change; Andes, Wari, Tiwanaku, and the Middle Horizon Interaction Sphere.
2007 Lic. Arqueología, Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima
2002 Ph. D. Anthropology, University of Florida
1996 M.A. Anthropology; Interdisciplinary focus in Architecture, University of Florida
1993 B.A. Anthropology; minor in Classical Studies, University of Florida
2010-present Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Greensboro 2006-2010 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago
2008 Visiting Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
2005 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northeastern Illinois University
2002-2004 Postdoctoral Research Associate, America’s Project Content Specialist, Field Museum, Chicago
2011-present UNCG Archaeology Program Faculty
2003-present Adjunct Curator of South American Archaeology, Field Museum, Chicago
2003-present Institute for Andean Studies, Elected Member
Peer Reviewed Works
Journal Articles
2011 Fiestas y la Economía Política Wari en Moquegua, Perú. Chungara 43(2):221-242.
2009 Household Archaeology in the Andes. Journal of Archaeological Research 17(3):205-261.
Non Peer Reviewed Works
Book chapters
2012 Williams, P. Ryan, Laure Dussubieux, & Donna J. Nash Provenance of Peruvian Wari Obsidian: Comparing INAA, LA-ICP-MS, and portable XRF. In The Dating and Provenance of Obsidian and Ancient Manufactured Glasses edited by Chris Stevenson & Ioannis Liritzis, pp. 75-96. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque (in press).
2010 Christensen, M., Donna J. Nash, and C. Townsend Women, In Encyclopedia of Latin America, Vol. 1, Amerindians through Foreign Colonization, edited by J. Michael Francis, Facts on File, Washington, DC.
2010 Meggars, Betty, and Donna J. Nash South America. In Handbook of Latin American Studies, edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Austin: University of Texas Press, Volume 65.
2010 Fine Dining and Fabulous Atmosphere: Feasting Facilities and Political Interaction in the Wari Realm, In Inside Ancient Kitchens: New Directions in the Study of Daily Meals and Feasting Events, edited by Elizabeth Klarich, 83-110. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.
2010 Wari, In Encyclopedia of Latin America, Vol. 1, Amerindians through Foreign Colonization, edited by J. Michael Francis, Facts on File, Washington, DC.
2008 Williams, P. Ryan, Donna J. Nash, Michael Moseley, Susan deFrance, Mario Ruales, Ana Miranda, & David Goldstein. Encuentros en el Reino Wari. In Encuentros: Identidad, Poder y Agencia de Espacios Publicos, edited by Peter Kaulicke, Boletín de Arqueología Pontifica Universidad Católica Peruana No. 9, Lima.
Book Reviews
2012 The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615. Ethnohistory 59(1): 202-205.
2004 El Senorio de Chiribaya en la Costa sur del Perú, a Review (by Maria Cecilia Lozada & Jane E. Buikstra). Journal of Anthropological Research 60(1): 114-116.
Project Reports
2011 Nash, Donna J., and Sophia Chacaltana Informe- Proyecto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Asentamiento Wari en Moquegua. Report submitted in Spanish to the Ministerio de Cultura, Peru.
2008 Nash, Donna J., and R. Monika Barrionuevo Informe-Proyecto Arqueológico Asentamientos en Cerro Mejía 2008 (ACME). Report submitted in Spanish to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Peru.
Nash, Donna J.
2007 Unidades 40 y 41. In Informe Final- Proyecto Arqueologico Cerro Baúl-2006 and 2007. Edited by P.R. Williams, pp. 13-33. Report submitted in Spanish to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Peru.
Nash, Donna J.
2004 Unidad 40. In Informe Final- Proyecto Arqueologico Cerro Baíl-2004. Edited by P.R. Williams, Mario Ruales M., and Anna Miranda Q., pp. 34-46. Report submitted in Spanish to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Peru.
Nash, Donna J.
2002 Unidad 24. In Informe Final- Proyecto Arqueologico Cerro Baúl-2002. Edited by P.R. Williams and Mario Ruales M., pp. 21-30. Report submitted in Spanish to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Peru.
Nash, Donna J.
2001 Unidades 7, 9, 17, y 21. In Informe Final- Proyecto Arqueologico Cerro Baúl-2001. Edited by P.R. Williams and Mario Ruales M., pp. 16-31, 54-58. Report submitted in Spanish to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Peru.
Popular Works
2000 Williams, P. Ryan, Michael E. Moseley, & Donna J. Nash Empires of the Andes. Discovering Archaeology March/April 2000, pp 68-73.
Submitted Manuscripts
Under Review Meggars, Betty, and Donna J. Nash South America. In Handbook of Latin American Studies, edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Austin: University of Texas Press, Volume 67 (2012).
Under Review Art and Elite Political Machinations in the Middle Horizon Andes. In Religion and Representation in the Development of Southern Andean Civilization: Tiwanaku, Wari and Transcultural Art of the SAIS (Southern Andean Iconographic Series 800 BC to AD 1000), edited by William Isbell & Mauricio Uribe. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.
Under Review El establecimiento de relaciones de poder a través del uso del espacio residencial en la provincia Wari de Moquegua. Manuscript submitted to IFEA, a peer reviewed journal published by the French Institute of Andean Studies, Lima, Peru.
Under Review Huánuco Pampa y Cerro Baúl: Centros de genuino diseño imperial. En Homenaje a Craig Morris: Los Inkas y la Interacción de Sociedades, Paisajes y Territorios en los Andes. Volumen II.
Under Review The Art of Feasting: Building an Empire with Food and Drink. In The Realm ofthe Condor: Wari, the Art of a Pre-Inca Empire, edited by S. Burgh. Cleveland Museum of Art.
Invited Lectures
2010 Excavating the Wari Empire: Determining the Nature of Political Relations using Material Culture. Invited paper presented at the Department of Anthropology Guest Lecture Series, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, February.
Conferences
2011 Daily Life and Identity in the Wari Realm: The Multi-ethnic community in Moquegua, Peru Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, April.
2010 Huánuco Pampa y Cerro Baúl: Centros de genuino diseño imperial. Coloquio en Homenaje a Craig Morris: Los Inkas y la Interacción de Sociedades, Paisajes y Territorios en los Andes. June 14-18, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima.
2010 What was a tenon head doing on Cerro Baúl? Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, January.
2009 Wari Imperial Demography: Origins of Cerro Mejía settlers in Moquegua. Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, April.
2008 Fiestas en Cerro Mejía y Cerro Baúl. Paper presented at the Congreso de Aqueologia-25 Años de Investigación Arqueológica de Contisuyo, Moquegua, Peru, July.
2008 Williams, P. Ryan, Laure Dussubieux, & Donna J. Nash Provenance of Peruvian Wari Obsidian: Comparing INAA, LA-ICP-MS, and portable XRF. Paper presented at the International Specialized Workshop-The Dating and Provenance of Obsidain and Ancient Manufactured Glasses hosted by the University of the Aegean, Delphi, Greece, February.
2007 Barríonuevo, R. Monika, & Donna J. Nash Los Acllahuasi: explotación o poder de género en el Imperio Incaico? Paper presented at the 15th Annual Congreso Peruano del Hombre y La Cultura Andina y Amazonica, Universidad Católica de Santa María, Arequipa, Perú, October.
2007 deFrance, Susan, & Donna J. Nash. A Final Feast: Surf and Turf at the Wari Site of Cerro Baúl, Perú. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, November.
2006 Garbage or Goodies? The Archaeological Study of Residential Remains in Moquegua. Paper presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April. N (presenter and symposium organizer)
2005 Attached Specialists or Elite Specialists? Production of Ceramic Wares on Cerro Baúl. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, January.
2004 Fine Dining and Fabulous Atmosphere: Feasting Facilities and Political Interaction in the Wari Realm. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, April.
2003 Building a Province: Modeling Wari and Inka Institutionalized Space. Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archeology and Ethnology. Cambridge, Ma., November.
2003 Wari Political Organization on the Southern Periphery. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwakee, April.
2003 A Speculative Hypothesis of Wari Southern Administration. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Midwest Conference of Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Chicago, February.
1999 Military Might or Natural Right: The Nature of the Wari Fortress at Cerro Baúl.
Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, March.
1999 Williams, P. Ryan & Donna J. Nash Wari Imperialism on the Southern Periphery: Results of Excavations at Cerro Baúl. Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, March.
1998 Williams, P. Ryan, Donna J. Nash, Johny Isla C., & Robert Feldman A Wari Offering Context at Cerro Baúl. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory. Binghamton, October.
1997 Williams, P. Ryan & Donna J. Nash Burning Down the House: Differential Patterns of Construction and Abandonment on Cerro Baúl. Paper presented at the 16th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory. Orono, Maine, October.
External Awards
2011 Feasting, Chicha Production and the Balance of Power in the Wari Empire, National Endowment for the Humanities, $130,379 (Submitted Dec 2011, pending).
2011 Power from a Palatial Perspective: Exploring Wari Provincial Palaces in Southern Peru, National Geographic Society, $20,000 (granted, June 2011-April 2012).
2010 Early State Organization from a Palatial Perspective: Power, Prestige, and Production in Three Wari Provincial Palaces, National Endowment for the Humanities, $99,149 (Submitted Nov 2010, unfunded).
2010 Expansion and Control: Investigating Migration between the Chuquibamba and Moquegua Provinces of the Expansive Wari State, Peru, Franklin Award, American Philosophical Society, $4,000.00 (granted, May-August 2010).
2007 Demographic Management on an Archaic State Frontier: Wari at Cerro Mejia, National Science Foundation, $78,417.00 and REU Supplements, $8,000.00 (granted, April 2007-March 2010).
2007 Palatial Pottery Production and the Political Economy on Cerro Baúl, Howard Heinz Endowment for Latin American Archaeology, $10,000.00 (granted, March 2007-February 2009).
2006 Wari Residential Site Survey in the Upper Moquegua Drainage, Curtiss T. & Mary G. Brennan Foundation, $5,000.00 (granted, January-December 2006).
1999 Wari Administration and Residential Space in the Osmore Drainage, National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, $11,974.00 (granted, July 1999-June 2001).
1999 Wari Administration and Residential Space in the Osmore Drainage, Asociación Contisuyo, $2500.00 (granted, July 1999-January 2000)
1998 Wari Residential Mapping Project, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, $1,000.00 (granted, May 1998-August 1998).
Internal Awards
2012 Nash, Donna and Joshua Macdonald URA: Social Inequality and Stone Bead Production at Cerro Baúl and Cerro Mejía (granted).
2012 Nash, Donna and Jennifer Grenier URA: Defining the Ritual and Dietary Use of Animals at the Tiwanaku Site of Tumilaca La Chimba, Moquegua, Peru (granted).
2011 Regular Faculty Research Grant: Testing a Model of Imperial Expansion and Culture Change: Identifying the Research Site (granted).
2011 Nash, Donna and Emma Thomas URA: The Taphonomy of Animal Bone at Cerro Mejia (granted).
2011 Principal Investigator, Power from a Palatial Perspective: Exploring Wari Provincial Palaces in Southern Peru. Excavations of palace residences on Cerro Mejía and archaeological field school, Moquegua, Peru.
2006-present Principal Investigator, Analysis of Ritually Smashed Pottery from the Palace on Cerro Baúl. Reconstruction and analysis of ceramic materials with student participants.
2011 Research Advisor and Participant, The Taphonomy of Animal Bone at Cerro Mejía. Ethnographic and Experimental Archaeology of the use of animals in Moquegua, Peru
2010 Principal Investigator, Expansion and Control: Investigating Migration between the Chuquibamba and Moquegua Provinces of the Expansive Wari State, Peru, Lab Analysis of Ceramics, Lithics, and Botanical Remains from Cerro Mejía and Cerro Baúl, Museo Contisuyo, Moquegua, Peru.
2010 Co- Principal Investigator (with Ann Laffey, Graduate Student UF) Ethnoarchaeology and Experimental Archaeology of Corn and Molle Chicha Production in the South-Central Andes. Video documentation, interviews, and participant observation of the chicha making process, chemical sampling of modern ceramic exemplars (Laffey), excavation of experimental area to collect comparative reference samples.
2008-2009 Principal Investigator, Demographic Management at Cerro Mejía, Residential excavations and archaeological field school, Moquegua, Peru.
2007 Principal Investigator, Palace Pottery Production and the Political Economy on Cerro Baúl& Field Director of the larger, Cerro Baúl Excavation Project, Principle Investigators Michael Moseley & Ryan Williams.
2006 Principal Investigator, Wari Residential Site Survey in the Upper Moquegua Drainage, Archaeological Survey and Lab Analysis, Moquegua, Peru.
2005 Principal Investigator, Lithic Technology of Expedient Tools from Cerro Mejía, Lab Analysis, Museo Contisuyo, Moquegua, Perú.
2004 Field Director, Cerro Baúl Excavation Project, Excavations & Lab Analysis, Principal Investigators Ryan Williams & Michael Moseley, Moquegua, Peru
2002 Field Director, Cerro Baúl Excavation Project, Excavations & Lab Analysis, Principal Investigators Ryan Williams & Michael Moseley, Moquegua, Peru
2001 Field Director, Cerro Baúl Excavation Project, Excavations & Lab Analysis, Principal Investigators Ryan Williams & Michael Moseley, Moquegua, Peru
1999-2000, Principal Investigator, Wari Administration and Residential Space in the Osmore Drainage, Excavations & Lab Analysis, Thesis Advisor Michael Moseley, Moquegua, Peru.
1999 Principal Investigator, Cerro Baúl Ceramic Reconstruction Project, Lab Analysis, Moquegua, Peru.
1998, Field Supervisor, Cerro Baúl Excavation Project, Principal Investigator Ryan Williams, Moquegua, Peru.
1998, Principal Investigator, Wari Residential Mapping Project, Thesis Advisor Michael Moseley, Moquegua, Peru.
1997, Field & Lab Supervisor, Cerro Baúl Excavation Project, Principal Investigator Ryan Williams, Moquegua, Peru.
1995&1996, Field Archaeologist, Moquegua Ancient Agriculture Project, Principal Investigators Ryan Williams & Michael Moseley, Moquegua, Peru.
1994, Principal Investigator, Cerro Petroglifo Mapping Project, Thesis Advisor Michael Moseley, Moquegua, Peru.
1993, Field Archaeologist, Ilo Preceramic Project, Principal Investigator Karen Wise, Ilo, Peru.
1992, Field Archaeologist, Year of the Indian Project 2, Principal Investigator, William Marquardt, Pineland, Florida.
Courses
2010-Present | University of North Carolina Greensboro
Anthropology 258: Introduction to World Prehistory
Anthropology 308: Lost Tribes and Sunken Lands (Web)
Anthropology 334: Latin American
Anthropology 360: Methods in Archaeology
Anthropology 478: Field Methods in Archaeology*
Anthropology 479: Analysis of Archaeological Data*
* Courses offered as part of an IPC Faculty Led Study Abroad Program in Moquegua, Peru
2006-2010 | University of Illinois Chicago
Anthropology 102: Introduction to Archaeology
Anthropology 228: South American Civilization
Anthropology 309: Writing About Culture
Anthropology 320: Women in Prehistory
Anthropology 423: Andean Prehistory
Anthropology 425: Field Techniques in Archaeology*
Anthropology 426: Laboratory Techniques in Archaeology*
Anthropology 494: Archaeology of Empires
Anthropology 494: Archaeological Research of Gender
* Courses offered as part of UIC Study Abroad Program in Moquegua, Peru
2008 | University of Chicago
Anthropology36200: Ceramic Analysis for the Archaeologist
2005 | Northeastern Illinois University
Anthropology 352: Introduction to Archaeological Lab Analysis
Doctoral Dissertation Committee/Research Advisor
2005-2011 Nicola Sharratt, UIC, Social Identities and State Collapse: A Diachronic Study of Tiwanaku Burials in the Moquegua Valley, Peru, Committee Member and Professional Reference.
2004-present Sofía Chacaltana Cortez, UIC,Inka resource management in the Moquegua Valley, Peru, Committee Member.
2007-present Caleb Kestle, UIC, Informal Market Exchange between Conquered and Unconquered Maya in the Early Colonial Period (modern day Belise), Committee member.
2009-present Emily Baca Marroquin, UIC, The Inka occupation of the Asia Valley, Peru, Committee Member.
2010-present John Hicks, UIC , Settlement Patterns and Changing Landscape use in the South Central Andes, Committee Member.
Masters Thesis/Research Advisor
2010-present Ann Laffey, UF, Chemical Analysis of Chicha Residue on Wari Pottery: A Pilot Study, Field Research Supervisor
Senior Thesis/Research Advisor/ Grant Proposals/ Graduate School Applications
2011-present Jennifer Grenier, Comparing the dietary and ritual use of animals at the site of Tumilaca La Chimba, Moquegua, Peru, URA proposal (awarded), Explorers Club proposal (pending), Research Advisor.
2011-present Joshua Macdonald, Examining the production of Wari Stone Beads in Moquegua, Peru, URA proposal (awarded), AIA proposal (pending), Research Advisor.
2011-present Emma Thomas, The Taphonomy of Animal Bone at Cerro Mejia, URA proposal (awarded), AIA proposal (awarded), Gilman International Scholarship proposal (awarded), Research Advisor, Senior Thesis (in preparation).
2011-present Kristen Welch, Graduate School Application and Reference.
2010 Erik Farrell, Differentiation of Iron and Manganese in Ceramic Glazes, Senior Thesis Committee, Research Co-Advisor.
2009-2010 Lucy Burgchardt, Sourcing Obsidian Resources at the Wari Site of Cerro Mejia, Ripon College, NSF-REU 2009, Research Advisor, Senior Thesis Committee, Graduate School Application and Reference (accepted to Cambridge), Gates Fellowship (awarded).
| Term | Course | Section | Course Title | Enrollment |
| 2011/Fall | ATY 258 | 01 | Introduction to World Prehistory | No data |
| 2011/Fall | ATY 258 | 02 | Introduction to World Prehistory | No data |
| 2011/Fall | ATY 308 | 01 | Lost Tribes and Sunken Lands | No data |
| 2011/Summer | ATY 478 | 01 | Field Methods in Archaeology | 6 |
| 2011/Summer | ATY 479 | 01 | Analysis of Archaeological Data | 6 |
| 2011/Spring | ATY 258 | 01 | Introduction to World Prehistory | 27 |
| 2010/Fall | ATY 258 | 01 | Introduction to World Prehistory | 42 |
| 2010/Fall | ATY 258 | 02 | Introduction to World Prehistory | 23 |
Community
2010-present NEH Advisory Committee, Exhibition Development Consultant, The Realm of the Condor: Wari, the Art of a Pre-Inca Empire, The Cleveland Art Museum.
2004-present Advisory Board Co-director, Museo Contisuyo, Peru (2004-present)
Professional
2009-present Contributing Editor. Handbook of Latin American Studies.
2011 Peer Reviewer. Chungara: Revista de Antropología Chilena, Santoro Vargas, C. ed.
2011 Peer Reviewer. Journal of Archaeological Research, Feinman, G. ed.
2011 Grant Reviewer. National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences-Archaeology, John Yellen, Program Director
2010 Peer Reviewer. Journal of Archaeological Research, Feinman, G. ed.
2010 Peer Reviewer. Book Manuscript, University of Colorado Press.
2010 Grant Reviewer. National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences-Archaeology, John Yellen, Program Director
2010 Grant Reviewer. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2009 Grant Reviewer. National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences-Archaeology, John Yellen, Program Director
2008 Peer Reviewer. Book Manuscript, University of Colorado Press.
2008 Grant Reviewer. National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences-Archaeology, John Yellen, Program Director
2007 Grant Reviewer. National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences-Archaeology, John Yellen, Program Director
2006 Grant Reviewer. National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences-Archaeology, John Yellen, Program Director
2004 Grant Reviewer. National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences-Archaeology, John Yellen, Program Director
University
2011 Faculty Senate- Interim Representative (Spring Semester)
Departmental Service- Anthropology
2010-present Committee Chair- Kuperfer-Outwin Awards
2011 Committee- Departmental Course Curriculum Development-Archaeology Program
2011 Harriet Elliot Lecture Series- Logistical Assistance
2011 Anthropology Poster Design
2010-2011 Committee- Review and Revision of Departmental Practice and Policy of Peer Teaching Evaluation
2010 Committee- Departmental Course Curriculum Development-Archaeology Program
2010 Committee- Exploration of Learning Communities and Program Development
