Frances Berdan

Frances F. Berdan (born May 31, 1944) is an American archaeologist specializing in the Aztecs and professor emerita of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. She also got her PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin back in 1975.

Berdan has authored many influential books about the Aztec civilization. In 1983, she received an "Outstanding Professor" award from California State University. In 1986, she was a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks with Michael E. Smith and other prominent Mesoamerican scholars. The result of that stay was the book Aztec Imperial Strategies (1986). Apart, from her in-Mesoamerican studies she also explored ethnic identity and ceramic collections in Kenya and northern Tanzania.

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