
Alex Badillo
Ph.D. Candidate
Badillo investigates people who lived in proximity to trade roads during times of conquest in the Nejapa region of Oaxaca, Mexico. His research spans the Late Postclassic period and the Colonial period and focuses on settlement patterns throughout the region. Research interests: Archaeology and social context, colonization, anthropology of violence, landscape, settlement patterns, trade and commerce, archaeological survey methods, GIS, dialect geography, archival research. Geographical areas of specialization: Mesoamerica, Oaxaca, Mexico.