Adriana Fabiola Sanchez Balderas

I am an anthropological archaeologist with a focus on Mesoamerica and a primary research interest in the Maya area and the Huastecas region and the Pacific Northwest Coast. My research interests are in household and everyday life, symbolism, identity, gender, foodways and cuisine, craft production, textile production, space and place. Co-Director of the Mensabak Archaeological Project in Chiapas, Mexico.

In the past years I have been working in the areas of visual and multimodal anthropology. I use drawing as a research method and as a means of communicating with varied audiences, including the research participants. I have studied with Dr. Andrea Walsh as a student in the Visual Stories Lab. At the end of 2024 I completed my master’s degree in Anthropology and I’m embarking on my PhD. as of January 2025, in the Department of Anthropology, Visual and Materiality theme speciality.

My current research focuses on fire technologies (function, cooking and lightening, technology, symbolism, and interpretation) and explores how anthropological approaches to knowledge from oral stories can be understood through graphic narratives with a sensory approach.

https://universityofvictoria.academia.edu/AFabiolaSanchezB