Lawrence G. Desmond received a PhD in anthropology and archaeology from the University of Colorado-Boulder; an MA in anthropology from the Universidad de las Americas in Cholula, Mexico, and has carried-out ethnographic and archaeological research in Mexico and Guatemala for more than 50 years. He taught at the University of Minnesota, San Francisco State University, and College of San Mateo. Desmond has carried out ethnographic fieldwork at Santo Tomas Jalieza, Oaxaca, and archeological fieldwork including excavations, ground penetrating radar surveys , close range photogrammetry recording at Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, Labna, Dzbilchaltun, Pyramid of Izamal, and Balankanche Cave. Desmond's books, A Dream of Maya and Yucatán through her eyes are about the photography, writings and field work of Alice Dixon and Augustus Le Plongeon. Desmond's photos of Mexico are archived by Harvard's Peabody Museum, and of the Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project at the Getty Research Institute.