Gerardo Guti茅rrez is an Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director, and Associate Chair in the Anthropology Department at the 乐播传媒 Boulder. Professor Guti茅rrez鈥檚 research is multidisciplinary with a strong emphasis on political and economic processes and how these are materialized on landscapes. He uses multiple sources of information including archaeology, epigraphy, indigenous writing systems, primary historical documents in archives, modern and historical cartography, and ethnography.鈥疍r. Guti茅rrez's research focuses on a group of interlocking interests related to the anthropological study of spatial arrangements created and transformed by human agency. He has conducted research on topics including territorial organization, ancient settlement patterns, landscape archaeology, and urbanism; ethnohistory; geographic information systems and disaster and risk reduction based on the anthropological study of vulnerability and ancient disasters; and demography and migrations. In his work, many of these overlapping themes have been framed within the context of key moments of societal transformation, including the 鈥渂efore鈥� and 鈥渁fter鈥� of European contact in the New World and the anthropological study of disasters.聽