Faculty Committee

Thomas Cummins

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art

Pre-Columbian and Latin American Art, Harvard University

Coordinator

Thomas Cummins is The Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art at Harvard University. His research and teaching focuses on Pre-Columbian and Latin American Colonial Art. Recent research interests include the analysis of...

Alejandro de la Fuente

Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Harvard University

Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History

Coordinator

Alejandro de la Fuente is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. He is the director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins...

Larissa Brewer-García

Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Chicago

Larissa Brewer-García specializes in colonial Latin American studies, with a focus on cultural productions of the Caribbean, the Andes, and the African diaspora. Within these areas, her interests include gender studies, literature and law, genealogies of...

Roberto Conduru

Endowed Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University

Roberto Conduru is Endowed Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. A leading scholar of Afro-Brazilian art, Conduru obtained his PhD at Universidad Federal Fluminense in 2000. Before joining...

Cecile Fromont

Associate Professor of African and South Atlantic Art History at Yale University

Cecile Fromont is Associate Professor of African and South Atlantic Art History at Yale University. Her writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early modern...

Lea Geler

Researcher at CONICET, GEALA Group Member, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Lea Geler is Researcher at Argentina’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani" of the University of Buenos Aires. She got her PhD at Universitat de...

Agnes Lugo Ortiz

Associate Professor, Latin American Literature, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Gender Studies, Center for Race, Culture and Society, Project Towards a New Americas Studies, University of Chicago

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz is a specialist in nineteenth-century Latin American literature, and in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean cultural history. Her work focuses on questions concerning the relationships between cultural production and the formation...

Javier Mojica Madera

Professor of fine arts at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia

Javier Mojica Madera is a leading Afro-Colombian artist and educator. He is professor of fine arts at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. A graduate of the Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes of Cali, Mojica completed a MA degree at the...

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