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William L. Fash, Jr. (born 1954) is one of the founders of The Copan Association, which he describes as "charged with research on and preservation of the Copan Archaeological Site, and other archaeological, cultural and natural resources of Honduras."Fash 2009, p. 2 and 23. The other founder is Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle.Fash 2009, p. 23.Asociacion Copan 2008. Fash currently holds the position of Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard and was previously Chair of the Anthropology Department and the Director of the Peabody Museum.Fash 2009, p. 1-2. He has been awarded the highest civilian honor of the Government of Honduras, The Order of Jose Cecilio del Valle.Fash 2009, p. 3. Also, in 2008, he was given the Hoja de Laurel de Oro by the Government of Honduras for 30-plus years of "preserving and documenting Honduras' cultural heritage." He describes his research interests as "the rise and fall of complex society and civilizations; ideology and political symbolism; settlement pattern studies; archaeology and ethnology of Mesoamerica; and archaeological conservation."Fash 2009, p. 1.
Fash is corresponding fellow of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia since March 2017.
Proyecto Arqueologico Copan – Fash had four different positions during this project over seven years. He worked as an archaeologist, Director of Settlement Surveys and Excavations, Excavations Director, and Research and Museums Consultant.
Copan Temples Project – Fash began work on this project the same year as the Copan Mosaics Project, it functioned as an international field school. He directed it for four years (1985–1990).
Copan Mosaics Project (1985–present) – William Fash initiated (with Barbara Fash and Rudy Larios) and directs this project, which started in 1985 but is currently unfinished.Williamson 1996, p. 1. In 1987, Fash was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship for this project, whose purpose is "to record and protect Copan’s hundreds of stone mosaic sculptures." To give an idea of the extent of the project, involves all of Copan's Principle group and preservation of its Hieroglyphic Stairway.
Copan Acropolis Archaeological Project (1988–1997) – Fash directed this project for 8 years (1988–1996), it involved the excavation of temples, courts, and tombs at Copan. Like the Copan Mosaics Project, this project also aided the architecturalFash 2003, p. 11. sculpture cataloguing process. Other researchers that assisted this project include Robert Sharer and Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle.
Harvard Field School in Maya Archaeology at Copan, Honduras – Fash directed this project for 6 years.Canuto 2009, p. 1.
From 2000 to 2003 he co-directed Xalla Palace Project at Teotihuacan, Mexico, with Leonardo López Luján and Linda Manzanilla.
From 2007 to 2013 Fash directed the Rastrojón Archaeological Project (, PARACOPAN), a programme of Rescue archaeology and conservation at El Rastrojon, a Classical Maya site close to Copán.
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