Curriculum Vita

2021

Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI (2021-22)

2020

Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and the Ancient World Proctorship, Brown University

2017

Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, Brown University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

2016

Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2016-2021)
Outstanding Interdisciplinary Scholar Award, Department of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
Outstanding Senior Award, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University
Undergraduate Achievement Award, Theta Alpha Kappa
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Epsilon of Michigan Chapter

2015

Beinecke Scholarship, The Sperry Fund (1 of 20 national recipients)
Jane C. Waldbaum Award, Archaeological Institute of America

Peer-Reviewed

Schnell, Joshua T., and Andrew K. Scherer.
2021 In press. Classic Maya Dental Interventions: Evidence for Tooth Extractions at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Accepted for publication in Bioarchaeology International, Vol. 5, No. 1.

Watson, Sarah W., Joshua T. Schnell, Shanti Morell-Hart, Andrew K. Scherer, and Lydie Dussol
Under Review Healthcare in the Marketplace: Exploring Medicinal Plants and Practices at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Under review at Ancient Mesoamerica.

Archaeological Reports

Scherer, Andrew K., Mallory Matsumoto, Joshua Schnell, Charles Golden, and Whittaker Schroder. 2019. Lacanjá Tzeltal: Operación 5B: Investigaciones de la cancha del juego de pelota. In Proyecto Arqueológico Busilhá-Chocoljá, Informe Preliminar de la Décima Temporada, edited by Andrew K. Scherer and Charles Golden, pp. 159-180. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City.

Ramiro Talavera, Moisés Yerath, Sonny Moises Ojeda González, and Joshua Schnell. 2019. Las Limas: Investigaciones preliminares. In Proyecto Arqueológico Busilhá-Chocoljá, Informe Preliminar de la Décima Temporada, edited by Andrew K. Scherer and Charles Golden, pp. 308-326. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City.

Scherer, Andrew K., Harper Dine, and Joshua Schnell. 2019. Bioarqueología: Análisis de los huesos humanos de Paso del Tigre, huesos de contextos no funerario de Lacanjá Tzeltal y resultados de investigaciones de isotopos estables de Rancho Búfalo, Budsilha, y El Infiernito. In Proyecto Arqueológico Busilhá-Chocoljá, Informe Preliminar de la Décima Temporada, edited by Andrew K. Scherer and Charles Golden, pp. 381-395. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City.

Schnell, Joshua T. and Andrew K. Scherer. 2018. Análisis de Huesos Humanos de Budsilha y Infiernito. In Proyecto Arqueológico Busilhá-Chocoljá, Informe Preliminar de la Novena Temporada, edited by Charles Golden and Andrew K. Scherer. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City.

Rodas, Ricardo, Joshua T. Schnell, and Andrew K. Scherer. 2018. Bioarqueología de Macabilero. In Proyecto Paisaje Piedras Negras – Yaxchilan, Informe de la Tercera Temporada de Investigación, edited by Omar A. Alcover and Mónica Urquizú, pp. 80-91. Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala City.

Morrell-Hart, Shanti, Sarah Newman, Joshua T. Schnell, Meghan McLeod, Sarah Watson, Harper Dine, Mallory Matsumoto. 2018. Budsilha: Operacíon 1: Investigaciones en el Grupo Principal. In Proyecto Arqueológico Busilhá-Chocoljá, Informe Preliminar de la Novena Temporada, edited by Charles Golden and Andrew K. Scherer. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City.

Schnell, Joshua T., Sarah Newman, and Andrew K. Scherer. 2017. Analisis óseos de Operación 15 de Piedras Negras. In Proyecto Paisaje Piedras Negras – Yaxchilan, Informe de la Segunda Temporada, edited by Mónica Urquizú, Andrew K. Scherer, and Charles Golden, pp. 200-228. Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala City.

Schnell, Joshua T., and Andrew K. Scherer. 2017. Analisis de huesos humanos de Operación 74 de Piedras Negras. In Proyecto Paisaje Piedras Negras – Yaxchilan, Informe de la Segunda Temporada, edited by Mónica Urquizú, Andrew K. Scherer, and Charles Golden, pp. 229-234. Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala City.

Blog Posts and Online Articles

Houston, Stephen, and Joshua T. Schnell. 2018. Tubing. Blog post, Ancient Maya Decipherment: Ideas on Ancient Maya Writing and Decipherment. https://decipherment.wordpress.com/2018/05/12/tubing/

Manuscripts in Preparation

Scherer, Andrew K. & Joshua T. Schnell. Maya Bioarchaeology. Forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology, edited by Vera Tiesler. Routledge, London.

Scherer, Andrew K., Ricardo Rodas, Joshua T. Schnell, Mónica Urquizú, and Omar Alcover Firpi. The Man of Macabilero: An Osteobiography of Perseverance. In The Lives and Deaths of Ancient Mesoamerican Individuals, edited by Gabriel Wrobel and Andrea Cucina. Forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

February 26th, 2021

"My teeth are my finery": An Experimental Approach to Investigating Ancient Maya Oral Care Practices. Brown University Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series.

October 15th, 2019

Dentists in the Market? Bioarchaeological Research and the Identification of Human Tooth Extractions in an Ancient Maya Marketplace. Guest lecture given in ANTH 102: Introduction to Archaeology, taught by Dr. Amélie Allard. Rhode Island College.

March 22nd, 2019

Royal Courts and Palatial Life among the Classic Maya. Guest lecture given in ARCH 0760: Palaces: Built to Impress, taught by Dr. Carl Walsh. Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University.

2021

Schnell, Joshua T. Exploring Transatlantic Sources of Botanical Dental Treatment Described in the Early Colonial Manuscripts of Mesoamerica. Lightning talk presented at the 2021 American Association for the History of Medicine virtual meetings.

Schnell, Joshua T. Ancient Maya Dentistry: New Evidence for Therapeutic Dental Interventions and Dental Care Practices. Paper presented at the 2021 Virtual Society for American Archaeology meetings.

 2020

Schnell, Joshua T. “Thy Teeth Will Have To Come Out:” Identifying Ancient Maya Dental Treatments in the Archaeological Record. Paper presented at the Brown University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Symposium, Providence, RI.

 2019

Schnell, Joshua T. Patients and Practitioners: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Approaches to Ancient Medicine and Healing Practices in the Americas. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings, Albuquerque, NM.

Watson, Sarah, Joshua T. Schnell, Shanti Morell-Hart, and Andrew K. Scherer. Health Care in the Marketplace: Exploring Medicinal Plants and Practices at Piedras Negras. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings, Albuquerque, NM.

2018

Schnell, Joshua T., Sarah Newman, and Andrew K. Scherer. The Animal, Human, and Worked Bone of the S-Sector at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings, Washington, D.C.

 2017

Schnell, Joshua T. Dead Bodies for the Living: The Politics of Ancient Maya Mortuary Practices. Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion Meetings, Boston, MA.

 2016

Schnell, Joshua T. The Buried Lotuses of Karnataka: An Anthropological Examination of the Mortuary Program of Southwestern India’s Virasaiva Tradition. Paper presented at the Midwest American Academy of Religion Meetings, Muncie, IN.

 2015

Schnell, Joshua T., and Gabriel Wrobel. Three-dimensional Osteometry: A Comparative Study of 3D Model Generation Techniques and their Relative Accuracy for Digital Cranial Osteometry. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, San Francisco, CA.

2021

Human Evolution (Introduction to Biological Anthropology), Brown University, Teaching Assistant

 2018

The Human Skeleton (Introduction to Human Osteology), Brown University, Instructor

Human Evolution (Introduction to Biological Anthropology), Brown University, Teaching Assistant

 2017

The Human Skeleton (Introduction to Human Osteology), Brown University, Teaching Assistant

 2016

Sufism: Mysticism in Islam, Michigan State University, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

 2015

Religion and the Senses, Michigan State University, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Ongoing

Public Education Committee, Society for American Archaeology, Student Member (2021-24)

STEM Outreach through the Skype A Scientist program

STEM Outreach in local public schools. Organizing archaeology teaching material and learning activities for elementary-age students

Osteology Coordinator for Brown University’s International Archaeology Day activities at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

2018

Co-Organizer, Brown University Department of Anthropology Admitted Students Weekend

2016-17

Graduate Mentor, Brown University Department of Anthropology

2015-16

Undergraduate Research Ambassador, Michigan State University Undergraduate Research Office

2014-15

President, Michigan State University Undergraduate Anthropology Club

Ongoing

Proyecto Arqueológico Busilhá-Chocoljá (PABC), Project Bioarchaeologist and Field Director. Brown University. http://usumacinta-archaeology.blogspot.com/

Proyecto Paisaje Piedras Negras – Yaxchilan (PPPNY), Project Bioarchaeologist and Field Director. Brown University. http://usumacinta-archaeology.blogspot.com/

 2013-16

MSU Campus Archaeology Program, Survey Team Member, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. CRM, Salvage/Rescue Excavation, Survey.

MSU Bioarchaeology Lab, Student Researcher. Digital osteometry, 3D scanning and photogrammetry, and body modification research. Founded the pilot study that has since become the Maya Cranial Photogrammetry Project. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

 2015

Central Belize Archaeological Survey, Belmopan, Belize. Excavating Complex Burial Contexts at Caves Branch Rockshelter, Excavating Civic-ceremonial Monumental Architecture at Tipan Chen Uitz, Documenting Ritual Cave Deposits in Actun Kabul.

 2013-14

MSU Campus Archaeology Program, Intern, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. GIS Analysis, Database Management, Map Production.

Society for American Archaeology

American Anthropological Association

American Society for Ethnohistory

American Academy for the History of Dentistry

Paleopathology Association

American Association for the History of Medicine

Dental Anthropology Association

Theta Alpha Kappa, Religious Studies Honors Society

Phi Beta Kappa, Epsilon of Michigan Chapter