Assistant Professor of Art History, Museum Studies

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Research Interests:

Art, propaganda, cultural property and national identity in Spain, modern Spanish and Latin American art, and the reception of Latin American art in the United States.

Fellowships/Honors:

Centro de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, Fundación Carolina Travel Grant - 2003 Institute of Fine Arts, Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship 1994 - 1998; 1999 - 2001. Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for Minorities - Honorable Mention List, 1999 - 2000. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship - for dissertation research in Spain 1998- 1999. Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and US Universities Grant 1998. NYU King Juan Carlos I Center-Coca Cola Summer Grant - for Research in Spain 1998. Rockefeller Foundation/College Art Association Travel Grant 1995. Institute of Fine Arts, Levy Travel Fellowship 1994.

Selected Works:

Selected Publications

"Esto lo vió Goya, esto lo vemos nosotros: Goya en la Guerra Civil Española." In Actas (forthcoming, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2007).

“Catalans! Catalunya. Posters and Propaganda in Spanish Civil War Barcelona," in Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudi to Dali (Cleveland Museum of Art and New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, forthcoming 2006).

“Neo-Expressionism," “Identity Politics" and “Activist Art," (short entries) in Kantor, Jordan. Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, forthcoming).

“Neo-Concrete," “Otra Figuracion" and “Pandemonium" (short entries) in Garrels, Gary. Drawing from the Modern 1945-1970 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005).

“Field Notes from a 'Native Informant,'" in None of the Above, Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists (Hartford: Real Art Ways in collaboration with the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, 2005).

“Satiric Line" (short entry) in Hoptman, Jodi. Drawing from the Modern 1880-1945 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004).

“The Alcazar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Franco's Spain, 1936-1940," in Architecture and Tourism: Spectacle, Performance, and Space. D. Medina Lasansky, Brian McLaren, eds. (Oxford: Berg, 2004).

“Reflecting on a History of Collecting and Exhibiting," in Miriam Basilio, Deborah Cullen, Fatima Bercht, Gary Garrels and Luis Enrique Perez-Oramas, eds. Latin American and Caribbean Art: MoMA at El Museo (New York: El Museo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art, 2004): 52-68.

“Genealogies for a New State: Painting and Propaganda in Franco's Spain, 1936-1940," in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 24:3 (Nov. 2003).

With Paulo Herkenhoff and Roxana Marcoci, “A Tempo Lexicon," Tempo, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.

"Re-inventing Spain: Images of the Nation in Painting and Propaganda." Ph.D. Dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2002.

Courses:
Topics in Museum Studies: Exhibiting Latin American Art in the United States, 1931-present (G49.3330)
Topics in Museum Studies: Blockbusters and Building Booms (G49.3330)
Topics in Museum Studies: Curating as Collaboration (G49.3330
Research Seminar (G49.3991)

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