David Lee Carrasco is an American academic historian of religion, anthropologist, and Mesoamericanist scholar.
15 Facts About David Carrasco
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David Carrasco has made statements about Latino contributions to US democracy in public dialogues with Cornel West, Toni Morrison, and Samuel P Huntington.
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David Carrasco's work is known primarily for his writings on the ways human societies orient themselves with sacred places.
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David Carrasco descends from several generations of El Paso, Texas educators.
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David Carrasco's father founded and directed the El Paso Job Corps Center in El Paso, Texas, which was renamed the David L Carrasco Job Corps Center in 1991 The younger Carrasco received his BA at Western Maryland College with a major in English Literature, and attended the University of Chicago where he earned three degrees in nine years: a Master of Theology, MA in History of Religions, and a Ph.
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In 1978, David Carrasco was invited by the Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma to participate in the interpretation of the discoveries made at the excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City.
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One general result of the collaborations between Matos and David Carrasco is the more than three decades of seminars and over 30 book publications on Mesoamerican history and religion which have emerged from the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project.
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One of the foremost scholars of Mesoamerican religions and cultures, David Carrasco has contributed particularly to the study of history, religion and symbolism of the Aztec and Teotihuacan cultures.
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In 2006, David Carrasco received the Mircea Eliade Jubilee medal, presented in absentia by the President of Romania, Traian Basescu.
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In 2014 David Carrasco was chosen as the Alumnus of the Year at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
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David Carrasco was present at the research seminar on Eranos held in the fall of 2000 on the Monte Verita.
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The Proceedings of the seminar were published, to which David Carrasco contributed a recollection.
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David Carrasco worked closely with the writer Toni Morrison and escorted her to Mexico City on two occasions to visit archaeological sites, Frida Kahlo's home, and to meet Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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David Carrasco was the prime mover in publishing one of Morrison's final works while she was alive, Goodness and the Literary Imagination, co-edited with Stephanie Paulsell and Mara Willard.
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David Carrasco is foreign member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia.