Frances F. Berdan
Frances F. Berdan is an American archaeologist specializing in the Aztecs and professor emerita of anthropology at California [State University, San Bernardino].
Berdan has authored many influential books about the Aztec civilization. In 1983, she received an "Outstanding Professor" award from California State University. In 1986, she was a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks with Michael E. Smith and other prominent Mesoamerican scholars. The result of that stay was the book Aztec Imperial Strategies.