Marc Zender presents a 24 lecture series entitled "Writing and Civilization: Ancient Worlds to Modernity" where he covers the anthropologic history of language reduced to writing.[3] This The Great Courses college level course traces the origin and development of writing.
Distinctions
Peabody Museum Research Grant, Peabody Museum,
Harvard University, 2010–2011
Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction, Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund, 2002
Publications
1999 Diacritical Marks and Underspelling in the Classic Maya Script : Implications for Decipherment. M.A. Thesis, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary.
2004 On the Morphology of Intimate Possession in Mayan Languages and Classic Mayan Glyphic Nouns. In The Linguistics of Maya Writing (édited by
Søren Wichmann, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City).