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	Michael E. Smith <mesmith9@asu.edu> Arizona State University My interests in relation to H-Net focus on premodern urbanism. I am an archaeologist with a focus on ancient cities and urbanization, and I am interested in comparative preindustrial urbanism, including comparisons with modern cities. I also have wider interests in the political and social dynamics of ancient states and empires. My field research focuses on Aztec sites in central Mexico. Professional blog: "Publishing Archaeology" http://publishingarchaeology.blogspot.com/ Professional blog: "Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Project" http://calixtlahuaca.blogspot.com/ Research project web site: "Urban Organization Through the Ages: Neighborhoods, Open Spaces, and Urban Life" http://latelessons.asu.edu/urban

Address:	School of Human Evolution & Social Change Arizona State University Box 872402 Tempe, Arizona 85287 United States

Primary Phone:	480-727-9520

Fax Number:	480-965-7671

Web Page:	http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/

List Affiliations:	Review Editor for H-Urban

Interests:	Anthropology Urban History / Studies

Bio: Michael E. Smith Summary Curriculum Vitae, May, 2009 BA, 1975, Brandeis University PhD, 1983, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign prior positions: University at Albany, State University of New York (1991-2005), Loyola University of Chicago, 1982-1990 Books: • Aztec City-State Capitals. University Press of Florida, 2008. • The Postclassic Mesoamerican World, book co-edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2003. • The Aztecs. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford (1st ed,1996; revised 2nd ed, 2003). • The Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica: A Reader, collection co-edited by M.E. Smith and Marilyn Masson. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford (2000). • Aztec Imperial Strategies, book co-authored by Frances Berdan, Richard Blanton, Elizabeth Boone, Mary Hodge, M.E. Smith, Emily Umberger. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC (1996). • Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm, book co-edited by Mary G. Hodge and M.E. Smith. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, Albany (1994). • Archaeological Research at Aztec-Period Rural Sites in Morelos, Mexico. Volume 1, Excavations and Architecture / Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Sitios Rurales de la Epoca Azteca en Morelos, Tomo 1: Excavaciones y Arquitectura (bilingual, English/Spanish). Univ. Pittsburgh, L. Am. monogr. (1992). Selected Professional Activities • Co-editor of book series, “New World Cities,” University Press of Florida. • Book Review Editor, Latin American Antiquity, 1999-2002. • Journal Editorial Boards: Ancient Mesoamerica; Reviews in Anthropology; Anales del Museo de América (Madrid); Virtual Mesoamerican Archive (Univ. Oregon). • Director, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, 1994-1998, 2004-2005. • Member, Soc. Am. Archaeology, Am. Anthropological Assoc, Am. Assoc. Adv. Science. Selected Recent Articles: • 2009 Editorial: Just How Comparative is Comparative Urban Geography?: A Perspective from Archaeology. Urban Geography 30:113-117. • 2007 Form and Meaning in the Earliest Cities: A New Approach to Ancient Urban Planning. Journal of Planning History 6: 3-47. Winner of the Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize for the “Best Scholarly Article on American Planning History,” Society for American City & Regional Planning History. • 2006 How do Archaeologists Compare Early States? Book Review Essay on Bruce Trigger and Adam T. Smith. Reviews in Anthropology 35:5-35. • 2005 City Size in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica. Journal of Urban History 31: 403-434. • 2004 The Archaeology of Ancient State Economies. Annual Review of Anthropology 33: 73-102. • 2004 Los hogares de Morelos en el sistema mundial mesoamericano postclásico. Relaciones 25 (99): 79-113 (El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico). • 2003 (M.E. Smith, J. Wharton & M. McCarron) Las ofrendas de Calixtlahuaca. Expresión Antropológica 19:35-53 • 2003 A Quarter-Century of Aztec Studies. Mexicon 25:1-10 (solicited article). • 2002 The Earliest Cities. In Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology, edited by George Gmelch and Walter Zenner, pp. 3-19. 4th ed. Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL. • 2001 (M.E. Smith and Lisa Montiel) The Archaeological Study of Empires and Imperialism in Prehispanic Central Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 20:245-284. • 2001 The Aztec World of Gary Jennings. In Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other), edited by Mark C. Carnes, pp. 95-105. Simon and Schuster, New York. • 2001 Braudel's Temporal Rhythms and Chronology Theory in Archaeology. In Annales, Archaeology, and Ethnohistory, edited by A. Bernard Knapp, pp. 25-36. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.