Bakewell, Elizabeth ( - )

Genre: Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction - Scholarly

Linguistic anthropologist and author Liza Bakewell lives on the coast of Maine. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a B.A. in performing arts and anthropology (1979) and earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brown University (1991). She has been a professor at Brown since 1992 and directs The Mesolore Project, a research and educational software project on Mesoamerican writing systems, manuscripts, and history, from both the pre- and post-Corts periods. In addition, she has taught courses at Bowdoin College and Colgate University