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 state- and nation-building.  She has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, and the Fulbright Institute.  She is currently writing a book manuscript which examines the ways in which the Mexican government used archaeology for the purposes of nation-building during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1877-1911).