Ronald Spores

Ronald M. Spores (born January 25, 1931) is an American academic anthropologist, archaeologist and ethnohistorian, whose research career has centered on the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica.

He is Professor Emeritus of anthropology at Vanderbilt University's College of Arts and Science, where he has been a faculty member for over four decades.

Spores is most renowned for his scholarship conducted on the cultural history of the Oaxacan region in southwestern Mexico.

In particular, he has made many contributions on the Mixtec culture, investigating its archaeological sites, ethnohistorical documents, political economies, and ethnohistory in both the pre-Columbian and Colonial eras.

His graduate studies were undertaken at the Universidad de las Américas in Cholula, Mexico, where he obtained an M.A.