Ann Cyphers

Ann Cyphers is senior research scientist at the Institute of Anthropological Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is coauthor of two Alfonso Caso Book Award winners, Retos y riesgos en la vida olmeca and Asentamiento prehispánico en San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, and five other books. She is the recipient of the 2018 National University Award in Humanities Research and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award from the National Autonomous University of Mexico; the Museum of Anthropology Medal from the University of Veracruz, Xalapa; and the Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.