- Valladolid Project Coordinator
- Professor of Archaeology- UNO UNIVERSITY / Valladolid Mexico
- Adjunct Professor -University of North Carolina/ Chapel Hill
Dr. Batún Alpuche holds a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology specializing in Archaeology from the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY), a Master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Florida, and a PhD in Archaeology specializing in the management and administration of cultural resources from the University of Florida in Gainesville, with a postdoctoral degree from the Dumbarton Oaks Institute of Harvard University.
His training in the area of cultural heritage protection has developed as a Principal Investigator and consultant in the Management of Cultural Resources in Florida and Georgia, as Director of Architectural Cultural Heritage for the government of the State of Yucatán, and as Director of the General Archives of the State of Yucatán (AGEY).
As a professor, he has taught classes in Archaeology and Culture at the University of Florida in Gainesville and is currently a Professor B at the Universidad de Oriente in Valladolid and an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Batún is a member of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), the American Anthropological Association (AAA), and the Florida Archaeology Council (FAC). In Yucatán, he is an active member of the Yucatecan Association of Specialists in Restoration and Conservation of Built Heritage A. C. (AYERAC). Since 2011, he has been co-director of the Collaborative Archaeological Project of Eastern Yucatán (PACOY), and since 2018, co-director of the Cultural Heritage, Ecology, and Conservation of Yucatecan Cenotes (