Pagán-Jiménez has more than 25 years of experience in Caribbean archaeology and has undertaken fieldwork or analyzed microbotanical materials from numerous sites on the islands of Puerto Rico, St. His doctoral dissertation has received the Alfonso Caso Medal to University Merit, 2005, the highest university level prize given in an individual basis to the most distinguished student and the best doctoral dissertation from all branches of anthropology, including archaeology.ĭr. Pagán-Jiménez holds a Doctorate in Anthropology (2005) with special emphasis on archaeology and palaeoethnobotany from the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). The aim of this eff ort is t o expose and acknowledge the poorly unknown contributions of Caribbean's Amerindian societies to history's most dramatic food shift. The mentioned methods, together with the different contextual scales and theoretical scenarios under scrutiny, forms the foundations of Pagán-Jiménez' research within Nexus 1492. An interesting set of theoretical constructs derived from human behavior ecology, experiential philosophy and phenomenology integrates the heuristic approach to ancient foodways employed by Pagán-Jiménez. He is currently performing paleoethnobotanical studies at various Caribbean archaeological sites through the study of ancient starches and phytoliths retrieved from processing, cooking, serving and “chewing” tools, and from archaeological soils and environmental sediments as well. Pagán-Jiménez was appointed to serve as a Senior Researcher in paleoethnobotany and Caribbean archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, within the ERC synergy project Nexus 1492. In 2016 Corinne was appointed elected member of Academia Europaea. She was appointed Dean of the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology in September 2013. She is member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences since 2015. She has been awarded several prestigious subsidies and in 2013 she won the KNAW MERIAN prize for excellent women scientists. Hofman has an extensive international network and collaboration agreements with local partners. In addition, she has always been committed to protecting the cultural heritage and endangered archaeological record of the islands. Hofman’s main aim with NEXUS 1492 is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the social relationships and transformations in the region prior and after the European encounters through the adoption of a multidisciplinary approach that combines traditional archaeological research in the Greater and Lesser Antilles with the most up-to-date research methods from the humanities and the social and natural sciences. One of her focusses has been working on Caribbean ceramics. This interaction can be measured on the basis of people’s mobility and the exchange of goods and ideas. Her primary interests are the communication systems and interaction networks of the indigenous Amerindian population in the period before and after the colonisation of the New World in 1492. Hofman has carried out archaeological research in the Caribbean since the 1980s. She also directs the archaeological project at Leiden and is head of a large international research group. Hofman is the CPI (Corresponding Principal Investigator) of NEXUS 1492.
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