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Lorena Mihok

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., applied anthropology, University of South Florida
  • M.A., Latin American and Latino studies, University of South Florida
  • B.A., art history, Columbia University

Credentials

Teaching

  • Professor of liberal arts, 2022–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Instructor of anthropology, 2020–22
    Visiting assistant professor of anthropology, 2019–20
    Instructor of anthropology, 2018–19
    Visiting assistant professor of anthropology, 2016–18, Eckerd College
  • Instructor, 2015–21, University of Arizona Global Campus (formerly Ashford)
  • Adjunct instructor, 2015–16, Department of Art, University of Tampa
  • Instructor of anthropology, 2014–16, Eckerd College
  • Adjunct instructor, 2012–18, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
  • Visiting assistant professor of anthropology, 2013–14
    Continuing part-time assistant professor of anthropology, 2012–13
    Adjunct instructor, 2010–12, Department of Anthropology, Eckerd College
  • Adjunct instructor, 2008–12, Department of Art, University of Tampa
  • Graduate teaching assistant, 2008–12, Department of Anthropology
    Graduate assistant, 2007–08, Department of Anthropology
    Graduate teaching assistant, 2003–05, Department of Humanities, University of South Florida, Tampa

Professional

  • Assistant curator of education for public programs, 2006–07, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
  • Volunteer coordinator, 1999–2002, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
  • Gallery assistant, 1997–98, Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • ISLAC Research Travel Grant, 2010
  • Travel award, American Society for Ethnohistory, 2004
  • University of South Florida Graduate Fellowship, 2002–03

Publications and presentations

Journal articles and book chapters

  • "The Royalization of Roatán," in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Indigenous Interaction, Resilience and Change, eds. W.A. Goodwin, E. Johnson, and A.J. Figueroa, University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2021.
  • "Landscape of Royalization: A British Military Outpost on Roatán Island, Honduras," in Archaeologies of the British in Latin America, ed. Charles E. Orser, Jr., Springer, New York, 2018.
  • "Miskitu Labor and English Royalization at Augusta, Roatán Island, Honduras," with E.C. Wells, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 18(1):100‐121, 2014.
  • "Ancient Maya Perceptions of Soil, Land, and Earth," in Soil and Culture, eds. E. R. Landa and C. Feller. Springer, New York, 2010.

Professional commentary

  • "Project Roatán," with E.C. Wells, SAA Current Research 117:1‐6, 2013.

Newsletter articles

  • With E.C. Wells, "Unearthing Augusta – an 18th Century English/Miskitu Settlement on Roatán Island, Honduras," The Current: Newsletter of the Island & Coastal Archaeology Interest Group 1(2): 5-6, 2013.

Analytical reports

  • With E.C. Wells, "Proyecto Roatán:Informe preliminar, tercera temporada," report submitted to the Instituto Hondureño de Antropologíae Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2012.
  • With E.C. Wells, "Proyecto Roatán: Informe preliminar, segunda temporada," report submitted to the Instituto Hondureño de Antropologíae Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2011.

Presentations at professional meetings

  • "Tools of Royalization: British Ceramics at a Military Outpost on Roatán Island, Honduras," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, 2017.
  • "Landscape of Royalization: An English Military Outpost on Roatán Island, Honduras," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, 2016.
  • "The Royalization of Northern Honduras, 1502–1788: Trajectories of the Pech, Miskitu, and Tolupan," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, 2014.
  • "English/Miskitu Interaction at Augusta, an 18th Century Settlement on Roatán Island, Honduras," poster presented at the Chacmool Annual Archaeology Conference," Trading Spaces: The Archaeology of Interaction, Migration and Exchange," University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2013.
  • "Geochemical Analysis of Occupational Surfaces at Augusta, an 18th Century English/Miskitu Settlement on Roatá" Island, Honduras," paper presented at the 234th Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2013.
  • "Geoarchaeological Prospection of an 18th Century English Settlement on Roatán Island, Honduras," public display at the 5th Annual College and Sciences Oktoberfest. University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, sponsored by the Office of Research and Innovation, University of South Florida, 2012.
  • "Geochemical Prospection at Augusta, an 18th century British Settlement on Roatán Island, Honduras," poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, 2012.
  • "The Back and Front Yards of the Neighborhood of Driftwood," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Austin, 2011.
  • "Puritan Acquisition at Rich Island," poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, 2010.
  • "Cognitive Dissonance in Early Colonial Pictorial Manuscripts from Central Mexico," paper presented at Sacred Leaves, First Annual Graduate Symposium and Public Lecture: The Book between Manuscript and Print, University of South Florida, Tampa, 2007.