Natalie Bruno

Graduate Student

Mesoamerican archaeology, GIS, archaeometry, K’iche’, State formation 

Natalie entered the Anthropology PhD program in the Fall of 2023. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Art History and Anthropology in the Spring of 2023. She has done archaeological research in both Texas and Guatemala.

Her research focuses on early political formations and perceived identities in the archaeological record in Mesoamerica. She is also interested in contemporary indigenous languages in the Americas, specifically Mayan K’iche’, and it can inform our understanding of culture in the past and present. She is currently a Research Assistant at Vanderbilt’s particle analysis lab.