Dr. Michael Love holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (1989). He is Associate Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Northridge.
His research interests focus on Mesoamerica, early social complexity, ceramic analysis, and household archaeology. Most recently, he has conducted research on political cycling and state formation on the Pacific coast of Guatemala, working at the sites of La Blanca and El Ujuxte through the examination of changes in household economy and ritual. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the National Geographic Society, the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, among others. His major publications include “Early Complex Society in Pacific Guatemala: Early Settlements and Chronology of the Río Naranjo, Guatemala,” and “Incidents of Archaeology in Central America and Yucatán,” (edited with Marion Popenoe de Hatch and Héctor Escobedo.)