Brandon Agosto

Brandon Agosto specializes in the early art history and archaeology of Mesoamerica. 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. His dissertation considers the manufacture and reception of mural painting from the ninth through twelfth centuries in the Gulf Coast of Veracruz.

Brandon assisted with the Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has also completed exhibition and collections research with Columbia University Art Properties, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Yale University Art Gallery, and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. As a trained field archaeologist, he has completed projects in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and Miami. Brandon was awarded FLAS fellowships by Duke University (2022) and Columbia (2023) to study Yucatec Maya. His research has also been supported by the Kislak Family Foundation (2025), Robert Stigler Fund for Archaeological Fieldwork (2024–2025), and Provost’s Office at Columbia (2023–2024). He received his MA in Archaeological Studies from Yale University (2017) and BA in Anthropology from Florida International University (2014).