Heather Hurst
{{short description|American archaeologist}}
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Heather Hurst (born 1975) is an American archaeologist and archaeological illustrator.
Career
Hurst graduated from Skidmore College in 1997{{Cite web |url=http://cms.skidmore.edu/global_skidmore/details.cfm?passID=1105 |title=Skidmore College: Global Skidmore News Details |access-date=2010-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529050852/http://cms.skidmore.edu/global_skidmore/details.cfm?passID=1105 |archive-date=2010-05-29 |url-status=dead }} and from Yale University in 2009 with a Ph.D. in anthropology. She teaches at Skidmore College.{{Cite web |url=http://cms.skidmore.edu/anthropology/faculty/heather-hurst.cfm |title=Skidmore College: Heather Hurst |access-date=2010-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100515054202/http://cms.skidmore.edu/anthropology/faculty/heather-hurst.cfm |archive-date=2010-05-15 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.popolvuh.ufm.edu/conferencias.htm |title=Conferencias |access-date=2010-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816192859/http://www.popolvuh.ufm.edu/conferencias.htm |archive-date=2010-08-16 |url-status=dead }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103102453/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-16903534.html "Two city 'genius grant' winners ponder future limited only by their imaginations"], New Haven Register, September 28, 2004 Her research is focused on art and iconography, with a focus on Maya murals and Olmec rock art. She has studied the art and architecture of Bonampak, Copan, Holmul, Oxtotitlan, Palenque, Piedras Negras, San Bartolo, and Xultun.{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Heather Hurst|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/heather-hurst/|access-date=2020-11-09|language=en-US}}
Hurst has been an archaeological illustrator at sites in Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico.{{cite web|url=http://www.mesoweb.com/palenque/dig/background/palenque_project.html|title=Palenque Current Dig: Background|work=mesoweb.com|accessdate=26 May 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.precolumbian.org/talk0502.html|title=Talk May 2002|work=precolumbian.org|accessdate=26 May 2015}}
Her illustrations have appeared in National Geographic and Arqueología Mexicana and have been exhibited at the Peabody Museum of Natural History and the National Gallery of Art,{{cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v33.n5/story1.html|title=Yale Bulletin and Calendar|work=yale.edu|accessdate=26 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911054016/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v33.n5/story1.html|archive-date=11 September 2015|url-status=dead}} as well as the Science Museum of Minnesota's 2013 exhibit on the Maya.
She gave a talk: "Tres Pintores Magníficos y Un Viajero: La Identificación de Artistas por los Pasos de Producción en Pintura Mural" at the 2010 Maya Meetings, Casa Herrera.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=344954524786&comments&ref=mf|title=Program Maya Meetings 2010|work=facebook.com|accessdate=26 May 2015}} In 2013, she gave a talk on recently discovered Maya murals.{{cite web |url=http://ias.umn.edu/2013/09/20/heather-hurst/ |title=Sept 20, 2013: The Artists of Xultun: Recent Discoveries of Maya Mural Paintings {{!}} Institute for Advanced Study |website=ias.umn.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013012729/http://ias.umn.edu/2013/09/20/heather-hurst/ |archive-date=2013-10-13}}
Awards
- 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- 2013, 2015 Site Preservation Award, Archaeological Institute of America
- 2004 MacArthur Fellows Program
References
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External links
- [http://www.mesoweb.com/palenque/dig/people/pix/hurst_z02.html Heather Hurst exploring the ruins of Temple XXVI]
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Category:American archaeologists
Category:Skidmore College alumni
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:Skidmore College faculty
Category:American Mesoamericanists
Category:Women Mesoamericanists
Category:21st-century Mesoamericanists
Category:American women archaeologists