Ph.D. Northwestern University 2021
M.A. Louisiana State University 2011
B.A. University of Yucatan, Mexico 2006

Specialties

Indigenous persistence and sustainability, decolonization, community and public archaeology, materiality, the politics of cultural heritage, Mesoamerica, Yucatan peninsula

Roberto Rosado-Ramirez has a long-standing interest in how Indigenous peoples of the Americas have built sustainable communities in the face of political collapse, environmental stress, and colonialism. He is a Yucatec anthropologist specializing in the archaeology of the Indigenous cultures of Mexico and Central America. He joined the University of Virginia faculty in 2023.

Rosado-Ramirez’s teaching and research is shaped by an orientation to the enduring power of the past, and the persistence and transformations of Indigenous communities. His current research is a community-based project focusing on the meaningful practices performed by Indigenous communities in the ruins of ancient cities in the Yucatan peninsula. His work aims to decolonize Indigenous history by demonstrating how some ancient heritage sites in Yucatan have been vibrant places of community life throughout time, and not just abandoned ruins. One of the main goals of his work is to create an infrastructure for Indigenous people to revitalize and reassess Indigenous knowledge in the Americas. He maintains long-term collaborations with colleagues and Indigenous communities in his home state of Yucatan, Mexico. Rosado-Ramirez is at work on a book based on his doctoral dissertation “Living with Ruins: Community Regeneration after Political Collapse at the Ancient Maya City of Ake, Yucatan, Mexico.”