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Richard Jacques

Sensory Perception and Religious Experience in the Devotional Works of Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664)

Adviser: Andrew Beresford

In progress
Durham University

Early Modern

Whitney Dennis

Very Old and Very Modern: The collecting practices of Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th duke of Alba

Advisers: Antonio Urquízar, José Antonio Vigara Zafra and José Miguel Hernández Barral

In progress
UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)

Modern and Contemporary

#History of Collecting#Court Studies

Elizabeth Caris

Cultural Convergence: Moche-Wari Style Textiles and Ceramics as Tinku

Advisers: Rebecca Stone and Megan O'Neil

In progress
Emory University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#Material Culture

Louise Deglin

Repetition, Recreation, Reinvention: Wari Artists and the Empire

Adviser: Stella Nair

In progress
UCLA

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#Material Culture

Gaby Greenlee

Threshold Objects: Inka Textiles as Mediators of Time, Space, and Conquest from the 16th to 18th centuries

Adviser: Carolyn Dean

In progress
UC Santa Cruz

Early Modern

#Ancient Americas#Material Culture

Anabelle Rodriguez

Curating Xunantunich: Conserving Ancient Maya Art and Architecture & Preserving Natural Heritage in an Urban Cultural Landscape of Western Central Belize

Adviser: Sarah Brett-Smith

In progress
Rutgers University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#History of Collecting

Elena Pasionaria Rodríguez Pazmiño

Iconographie et iconicité dans les sceaux de l’Équateur précolombien

Advisers: Louise Vigneault and Christina Halperin

In progress
Université de Montréal

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas

Carlos Rivas

Decolonizing Aeriality in the Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala, 1768–1770

Adviser: Charlene Villaseñor Black

In progress
UCLA

18th / 19th Centuries

Macarena Deij Prado

Public Performance and Display in Spanish America 1570–1630

Adviser: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi

In progress
University of Florida

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Megan Flattley

Out of the Fragments, New Worlds: Perspective and Spatiality in the Work of Diego Rivera, 1913–1933

Adviser: Adrian Anagnost

In progress
Tulane University

Modern and Contemporary

Caroline Gillaspie

Delicious Libations: Slavery and Environment in the Visual Culture of the Brazil-U.S. Coffee Trade

Adviser: Katherine Manthorne

In progress
City University of New York

Early Modern

#Race Studies#Colonial and Viceregal#Material Culture

Horacio Ramos

Performances of Race: The Making of an Experimental Arte Popular in Peru, 1979-1990

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez

In progress
City University of New York

Modern and Contemporary

#Race Studies

María Paula Varela

Goddesses and Monsters: Maria Martins’ Paradoxical Modernism

Adviser: Kaira Cabañas

In progress
University of Florida

Modern and Contemporary

Agnieszka Ficek

From Allegory to Revolution: The Inca Empire in the Eighteenth-Century French Imagination

Adviser: Judy Sund

In progress
City University of New York

18th / 19th Centuries

#Ancient Americas

Elvis Fuentes

Bowling for Moscow: The Relationship between Soviet Visual Culture and Cuban Art, 1972-1994

Adviser: Jane Ashton Sharp

In progress
Rutgers University

Modern and Contemporary

Sonja Elena Gandert

La resolana: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez

In progress
City University of New York

Modern and Contemporary

Risa Puleo

Reorienting Land and Sky: Mexica and Diné Maps from the 16th through the 21st Century (Working Title)

Advisers: Rebecca Zorach and Hannah Feldman

In progress
Northwestern University

Modern and Contemporary

#Ancient Americas#Colonial and Viceregal#Works on Paper

Alyson Cluck

Forms of Encounter: Zilia Sánchez’s ‘Erotic Topologies’ in 1960s New York

Adviser: Abigail McEwen

In progress
University of Maryland

Modern and Contemporary

Laura Freitas Almeida

Resisting Memory: Anti-Imperialist Tactics of Forgetting in Latin American Contemporary Art

Adviser: Sarah K. Rich

In progress
Penn State University

Modern and Contemporary

Ionit Behar

Intimate Space and the Public Sphere: Margarita Paksa in Argentina’s Military Dictatorship

Advisers: Hannah B. Higgins and Ömür Harmanşah

In progress
University of Illinois at Chicago

Modern and Contemporary