Education

PhD in Anthropology
May 2019
University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Archaeology
May 2009
Brown University

Publications

Articles

Brown, Madeline, Whittaker Schroder, and Timothy Murtha 2022 Are Threats the Connection?: Linking Cultural and Natural Resource Conservation. Conservation and Society 20(4):313-324. https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_78_21

Brown, Madeline, Timothy Murtha, Whittaker Schroder, and Luwei Wang 2022 Defining Cultural Resources: A Case Study from the Mid-Atlantic United States. Human Organization 81(1):47-59. https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-81.1.47

Scherer, Andrew K., Charles Golden, Stephen Houston, Mallory Matsumoto, Omar Alcover Firpi, Whittaker Schroder, Alejandra Roche Recinos, Socorro Jiménez Álvarez, Mónica Urquizú, Griselda Pérez Robles, Joshua T. Schnell, and Zachary X. Hruby 2022 Chronology and the Evidence for War in the Ancient Maya Kingdom of Piedras Negras. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 66:101408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101408

Schroder, Whittaker, Timothy Murtha, Charles Golden, Andrew K. Scherer, Eben N. Broadbent, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Kelsey Herndon, and Robert Griffin 2021 UAV LiDAR Survey for Archaeological Documentation in Chiapas, Mexico. Remote Sensing 13(23):4731. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13234731

Golden, Charles, Andrew K. Scherer, Whittaker Schroder, Timothy Murtha, Shanti Morell-Hart, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, Socorro del Pilar Jiménez Álvarez, Omar Alcover Firpi, Mark Agostini, Alexandra Bazarsky, Morgan Clark, G. Van Kollias III, Mallory Matsumoto, Alejandra Roche Recinos, Joshua Schnell, and Bethany Whitlock 2021 Airborne Lidar Survey, Density-Based Clustering, and Ancient Maya Settlement in the Upper Usumacinta River Region of Mexico and Guatemala. Remote Sensing 13(20):4109. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13204109

Schroder, Whittaker, Timothy Murtha, Eben Broadbent, and Angélica Almeyda Zambrano 2021 A Confluence of Communities: Households and Land Use at the Junction of the Upper Usumacinta and Lacantún Rivers, Chiapas, Mexico. World Archaeology 53(4):688-715. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.1930135

Schroder, Whittaker 2021 Cycles of Defence on the Periphery of the Piedras Negras Kingdom: Landscape Patrimony at the Fortified Hilltop Community of El Infiernito, Chiapas. Landscape Research 46(6):793-810. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2021.1899150

Schroder, Whittaker, Timothy Murtha, Charles Golden, Armando Anaya Hernández, Andrew Scherer, Shanti Morell-Hart, Angélica Almeyda Zambrano, Eben Broadbent, and Madeline Brown 2020 The Lowland Maya Settlement Landscape: Environmental LiDAR and Ecology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102543

Magnani, Matthew, Matthew Douglass, Whittaker Schroder, Jonathan Reeves, and David Braun 2020 The Digital Revolution to Come: Photogrammetry in Contemporary Archaeological Practice. American Antiquity 85(4):737-760. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.59

Schroder, Whittaker 2020 Interpreting Cultural and Landscape Resilience Through Comparative Approaches. The SAA Archaeological Record. January 2020:26-30. link

Golden, Charles, Andrew K. Scherer, Stephen Houston, Whittaker Schroder, Shanti Morell-Hart, Socorro del Pilar Jiménez Álvarez, George Van Kollias, Moises Yerath Ramiro Talavera, Jeffrey Dobereiner, and Omar Alcover Firpi 2020 Centering the Classic Maya Kingdom of Sak Tz’i’. Journal of Field Archaeology 45(2):67-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2019.1684748

Scherer, Andrew K., Charles Golden, Omar Alcover Firpi, Whittaker Schroder, Monica Urquizú, and Edwin Román 2019 Yaxchilan from the Perspective of Guatemala: New Data on Settlement, Fortifications, and Sculptural Monuments. The PARI Journal 20(2):1-14. link

Schroder, Whittaker, Charles Golden, Andrew Scherer, Timothy Murtha, and Omar Alcover Firpi 2019 Remote Sensing and Reconnaissance Along the Lacantún River: The Lakamtuun Dynasty and the Sites of El Palma and Benemérito de las Américas, Primera Sección. Mexicon 41(6):157-167. link

Murtha, Timothy M., Eben N. Broadbent, Charles Golden, Andrew Scherer, Whittaker Schroder, Ben Wilkinson, and Angélica Almeyda Zambrano 2019 Drone-Mounted LIDAR Survey of Maya Settlement and Landscape. Latin American Antiquity 30(3):630-636. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2019.51

Schroder, Whittaker, Charles Golden, Andrew K. Scherer, Socorro del Pilar Jiménez Álvarez, Jeffrey Dobereiner, and Alan Mendez Cab 2017 At the Crossroads of Kingdoms: Recent Investigations on the Periphery of Piedras Negras and its Neighbors. PARI Journal 17(4):1-15. link

Golden, Charles, Timothy Murtha, Bruce Cook, Derek S. Shaffer, Whittaker Schroder, Elijah J. Hermitt, Omar Alcover, and Andrew K. Scherer 2016* Reanalyzing Environmental LIDAR Data for Archaeology: Mesoamerican Applications and Implications. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9:293-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.07.029

Magnani, Matthew and Whittaker Schroder 2015 New Approaches to Modeling Volumetric and Energetic Costs of Earthen Archaeological Features: A Case-Study from the Hopewell Culture Mounds. Journal of Archaeological Science 64:12-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.09.001

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Golden, Charles, Andrew K. Scherer, Whittaker Schroder, Clive Vella, and Alejandra Roche Recinos 2020 “Decentralizing the Economies of the Maya West.” In The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies: From Farmers’ Fields to Rulers’ Realms (edited by M. Masson, D. Freidel, and A. Demarest). Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Teaching