2018
Received the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFs) awards for the “Anthropogenic soils of the Amazon” project
2017
Elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2016
Keynote Presentation: Germination workshop. Speaker and group facilitator. National Science Foundation, Division of Engineering Education. Washington, DC.
2014
Keynote Address (in Spanish) La metalurgia guerrerense en el contexto mesoamericano y mundial. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Taxco, Guerrero, México.
2005
Conferencia Magistral: National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City: Presentation of book, Los Sonidos y Colores del Poder. Colegio Mexiquense.
2001
Conferencia Magistral: La tecnología Metalurgica Americana: National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City Symposium in Honor of Pina Chan, México City, México.
2001
(Distinguished Lecture) La Producción Metalurgica en Mexico; Nuevos natos del Manchόn, Guerrero. Colegio de Michoacán, Michoacán, México.
2001
(Distinguished Lecture) La Producción de Cobre en el Antiguo Mesoamerica. Archaeological Lecture Series Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, Toluca, México.
1998
Named to Hennebach Chair. Professor in the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines
1998
Conferencia Magistral: Tecnología y Orígines de la Antigua Metalurgia. Mexican National Academy of Engineering, CONACYT (National Council on Science and Technology), Mexico City, México.
1997
Conferencia Magistral Los Origines y Vínculos Sudamericanos de la Metalurgia Mesoamericana. Banco de la República, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia.
1997
Conferencia Magistral: La Metalurgia Mexicana: Recursos, Metales y Aleaciones y Contexto Social. International Conference on Ancient Mining, San Luis Potosí, México.
1997
Conferencia Magistral: La Metalurgia Americana. Session on Ancient American Metallurgy, 45th International Conference of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador.
1997
Ancient American Metallurgy. Distinguished Spring Lecture, Dumbarton Oaks Research Libraries and Collections (Harvard University), Washington, DC.
1996
Named Professor of Mesoamerica Studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris
1990
Esther and Harold Edgerton Fellow: three year joint appointment (Anthropology Program and the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ancient Technology) MIT