Michael D. Mathiowetz obtained his doctorate in Anthropology in 2011 from the University of California, Riverside. His research and publications over the past fifteen years crosscut the archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnology, and oral traditions of Indigenous societies in the southwestern United States and north/west Mexico, including a focus on art, religion/ritual, and prehispanic interregional interaction between cultural groups in these regions. Mathiowetz’ research has been funded by fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, UC MEXUS-CONACYT, the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, and the SAA Fred Plog Award. He is co-editor (with Dr. Andrew Turner) of a new edited volume entitled Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest and co-editor (with Dr. John M. D. Pohl) of a forthcoming edited volume entitled Reassessing the Aztatlán World: Cultural Dynamics in Postclassic West Mexico.