Rosemary Joyce

Rosemary Joyce is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. She defines her research as concerning how things make people as people make things, attending to human and non-human agency. Her books Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (University of Texas Press, 2001) and Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives (Thames and Hudson, 2008) expanded theoretical work on sex in archaeology beyond the gender binary. Her latest book, The Future of Nuclear Waste (Oxford University Press, 2020), examines how ideas about monuments serve to guide planning for US nuclear waste. A recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, in 2022 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Leiden University; the "Premio Jesús Núñez Chinchilla" by the Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, and the A. V. Kidder Award for Eminence in American Archaeology of the American Anthropological Association.