Jean Pike is a New Mexico-based architect and independent researcher who focuses on the architecture and constructed landscapes of Mesoamerica and the pre-Hispanic U.S. Southwest. She has practiced in the fields of architecture, public art, sustainability and site analysis and has taught at Yale, The New York Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute, Pratt Rome and The University of New Mexico where she received the UNM Students’ Choice: Best Teacher at UNM Award. She holds degrees from The Yale School of Architecture and Barnard College, Columbia University. In 2016 she was named a New Mexico History Scholar and received funding for her research on the Classic and Coalition period architecture of the Galisteo Basin, New Mexico. She investigates ancient American architecture and its affordances of identity, social organization, power and connectivity.