CHRISTINA BUENO is Assistant Professor of Latin American History and Latino-Latin American Studies. Her research interests include: Mexico, indigenous peoples, race and ethnicity, and nation- and state-building. She is currently writing a book manuscript, "Excavating Identity: Archeology and the Making of Modern Mexico," which examines how the Mexican state has used archaeology to forge a national identity based on the pre-Hispanic past. Her forthcoming chapter in an edited volume, Holiday in Mexico (Duke University Press), examines archaeological tourism and the creation of Mexico’s first official archaeological site at Teotihuacan in the early twentieth century. She has presented papers at Stanford University, the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, and the Latin American Studies Association International Congress.