Dr. Judith Storniolo

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		Judith Storniolo, Ph.D
		Assistant Teaching Professor of Anthropology
		Office:	MacAlister 5025
		Phone:	(215) 895-2186
		Email:	jas92 @ drexel.edu
	RESEARCH INTERESTS Judith Storniolo is a historical and comparative linguist and anthropologist. She has done field work among the Maya in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala since 1985. Her research interests include continuity and change in traditional cultures, Mesoamerican languages and culture; applied anthropology and public policy; language attrition and death; imperialism and contact phenomena; myth; Mayan hieroglyphics, culture and conflict; oral traditions and narratives; ideology and ritual; Mesoamerican ethnohistory; and Pre-Columbian literature. She has been a Chimicles Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks of Harvard, and the Senior Researcher for the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project.
	CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH: Continuity and change in traditional cultures Mesoamerican languages and culture Applied anthropology and public policy Language attrition and death Imperialism and contact phenomena Mayan hieroglyphics, culture and conflict; oral traditions and narratives; ideology and ritual Mesoamerican ethnohistory; and Pre-Columbian literature.