CANTON -- A St. Lawrence University anthropology professor recently received grant to explore the interaction between neighboring Classic-period Mayan kingdoms.

Elizabeth Paris, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, and her research colleague in Mexico were awarded the Wenner-Gren Foundation’s International Collaborative Research Grant, an award worth $35,000. The grant is awarded to collaborators of international research, where the principal investigators bring different and complementary perspectives, knowledge skills to the project, SLU said.

The project, titled “Households And Communities In Small Polity Networks: Inter-Polity Interaction In Highland Chiapas,” will investigate interaction and integration between two neighboring kingdoms in the Jovel Valley of highland Chiapas from the Late Classic period (700 AD to 900 AD) to Early Postclassic period (900 AD to 1250 AD).

Paris plans to begin fieldwork in the summer of 2015, and she plans to publish her findings after returning to the site next winter, the school said