Miguel Astor-Aguilera is an Arizona State University associate professor whose scholarship concentrates on ethnography, material culture, socio-religious theory, and archaeology focusing on Latin America. He specializes in Mesoamerican cosmovisions and their historical traditions, that is, pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary. His work specializes on Maya ritual specialists in the Yucatán peninsula and their ecological environment. Astor-Aguilera teaches courses in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies that are cross-listed with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the School of Transborder Studies. He has been faculty head of Religious Studies and is currently director of graduate studies for religious studies and associate director of graduate studies for the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies.