Wednesday April 15, 2026
3:00pm – 4:00pm
American Geographical Society Library (AGSL)
UWM Libraries, 3rd floor east wing

This talk is part of the LACUSL Speaker Series: Join us to learn about the many topics you can study through UWM’s interdisciplinary LACUSL major (Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx Studies).

Discovering Ancient Casmeños in Peru

In this talk, Professor David Pacifico will share about his current research and the journey that brought him to studying the ancient society of Peru’s Casma Valley.

Professor David Pacifico is Associate Professor of Art History at UW-Milwaukee, where he researches and regularly teaches courses on the material culture of South America and Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago, and has conducted archaeological fieldwork in the Casma Valley region of Peru for many years, where he is currently Director of the Casma Hinterland Archaeological Project. Professor Pacifico’s work also promotes public engagement with archaeological heritage, both locally in Peru and here in Milwaukee; at UWM he is on the Museum Studies Advisory Board and Director of the Milwaukee Community Archaeology Project.