SIGA briefs
Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón: "A true patron without any pretense of being one"
Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón has published “‘A true Patron without any pretense of being one’: William H. Stewart, His Album, and His Friends from the Modern Spanish School in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” Nineteenth Century Studies 33:1 (2021): 217-41.
Orlando Hernández Ying appointed Curatorial Associate at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library
Orlando Hernández Ying has been recently appointed Curatorial Associate at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library where he will co-curate an exhibit of José Clemente Orozco’s drawings and will continue his research on 19th-century Peruuvian watercolorist Pancho Fierro.
Laura Fernandez Gonzalez awarded Leverhume Trust fellowship
Laura Fernández González has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for 2022-2023 for her second book project on early modern city ports of the Iberian World. The project entitled: “Global Iberia: Architecture and Empire in the early modern ‘Ports of the Indies’” explores the architectural and urban development of four key city ports of the early modern Iberian world, namely, Lisbon, Old Goa, Seville and Havana.
Luisa Elena Alcala Donegani: Arte y localizacion de un culto global
Luisa Elena Alcala Donegani has recently published Arte y localizacion de un culto global. La Virgen de Loreto en Mexico. Madrid: Abada Editores, 2022.
Pamela Patton: What Did Medieval Slavery Look Like?
Pamela Patton’s article “What Did Medieval Slavery Look Like? Color, Race, and Unfreedom in Later Medieval Iberia” appears in the July 2022 special issue of Speculum entitled “Emerging Issues in Medieval Iberian Studies.”
Hugo Miguel Crespo and Annemarie Jordan Gschwend: The "Pangolin Fan"
Hugo Miguel Crespo and Annemarie Jordan Gschwend have published The “Pangolin Fan”. An Imperial Ivory Fan from Ceylon. Artistic Confluence and Global Gift Exchange between Sri Lanka and Renaissance Portugal (Montevideo, Uruguay: Jaime Eguiguren, June 2022).
Adam Jasienski promoted
Adam Jasienski was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU.
Alexandra Letvin named curator at Princeton
Alexandra Letvin has been named the inaugural Duane Wilder, Class of 1951, Associate Curator of European Art at the Princeton University Art Museum.