[Aztlan] William Sanders as an undergrad

[Michael Smith]

I am looking for information on the development of William Sanders's
ideas about urbanism when he was an undergraduate at Harvard. His senior
thesis applied Gordon Childe's model of the urban revolution to the
Aztecs:  (Sanders, William T.  (1949)  The "Urban Revolution" in Central
Mexico. Undergraduate Honors Thesis Dissertation, Department of
Anthropology, Harvard University). One fact I am trying to track down is
who his advisor was on the thesis; this was before Gordon Willey arrived
at Harvard (this information is not provided in his thesis). I am trying
to assess, among other things, the influence of Childe's ideas on
Sanders's thinking. This is partly for a paper I'm writing about
Childe's urban revolution model, and partly for a more general interest
in the history of ideas about urbanism in Mesoamerican archaeology.

 

If anyone happens to know anything about this, I'd appreciate any
information.

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

 

Dr. Michael E. Smith

Professor of Anthropology

School of Human Evolution & Social Change

Arizona State University

www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/