Brandon Agosto

Brandon Agosto

Brandon Agosto specializes in the early art history and archaeology of what is today Latin America. For his MA thesis, Brandon conducted an iconographic and epigraphic study of a Maya ceramic vessel, illustrating a war scene that took place between 603–811 CE and manufactured in the Mexican state of Chiapas. He is now particularly interested in Mesoamerican intercultural exchange and an intermedial study of portable objects, monumental sculpture, and wall paintings of the Late Formative and Early Classic periods.

Brandon has assisted with exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Yale University Art Gallery, and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is also a trained field archaeologist and has completed projects in Peru, Guatemala, and Miami. In 2022 and 2023, Brandon was awarded FLAS Fellowships by Duke and Columbia University to study Yucatec Maya with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his MA in Archaeological Studies from Yale University in 2017 and a BA in Anthropology (summa cum laude) from Florida International University in 2014.