Members

Membership

The Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA) is made up of members from a wide variety of scholarly backgrounds whose work engages with the material culture of Iberia and its global communities.

The SIGA Listserv

SIGA fosters an international community of scholars who engage with the material culture of Iberia and its global communities. We maintain an active listserv through the Gaggle Mail where participants can share news and items of interest to the community.

SIGA briefs

Susan Deans-Smith: Review of "Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America"

Publication 2/3/2025

Susan Deans-Smith recently published a review of Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America co-edited by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi and Margarita Vargas-Betancourt.

David Pullins: Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez

Announcement 1/24/2025

David Pullins will present the hybrid lecture “Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez” sponsored by the Center for Visual Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 20, 2025.

Infamy within Sight: Making and Unmaking Sambenitos in the Early Modern Iberian World

Publication 1/17/2025

Cloe Cavero de Carondelet and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan published “Infamy within Sight: Making and Unmaking Sambenitos in the Early Modern Iberian World” in Renaissance Quarterly 77:2.

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Dissertations

The Givers of Things: Tlamacazqueh and the Art of Religious Making in the Mexica and Early Transatlantic Worlds

By Anthony Meyer, UCLA, 2023

Facing Pilgrimage: Tenon Head Sculptures at the Ceremonial Center of Chavín de Huántar, Peru

By Patricia Lagarde, Tulane University, 2022

Artifex. Architectural Reasoning, Drawing and Rhetoric in the Oeuvre of Friar Juan Ricci de Guevara (1600-1681)

By Martijn van Beek, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2021

Images of the Immaculate Conception and the Rhetorics of Purity in Golden Age Spain

By Rebecca Teresi, Johns Hopkins University, 2021

Francisco de Zurbarán and his Workshop’s Painting Production for the Americas: Trade, Collections and Reception

By Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, University of Cambridge, 2021

Fertile Terrain: Botany, Art, and Power in Cuba’s Nineteenth Century

By Emily Sessions, Yale University, 2020

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