American Studies Faculty and Staff

"I was born in Mexico City but grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, two places that couldn't be more different. After a brief stint studying architecture and interior design, I finished my undergraduate degree in art history, with the intention of pursuing art conservation. I trained as a book and paper conservator and then managed the conservation of the general collections at the Rockefeller Library at Brown University. After working at "the Rock" for two years, I decided to return to art history to pursue my interest in 20th-century Mexican Art, an interest motivated by my love for the city and country of her birth. I haven't looked back since. Aside from Mexican art, I love movies, the beach and all kinds of cooking."

“Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender and Representation in Mexican Art and Culture,” examines the relationship between images of women, nationalism and modernism in Mexico City between 1900-1950,” (under review)

“Imaginative Geographies: Mexico City in the Artistic Imagination,” examines the images of Mexico City produced from the 1940s through the present in art, literature, and cinema (in progress)

“Mexico City: Immanent Violence in O’Gorman, Alÿs and Smith.” (in progress)

“Mexico City: Context and Resonance,” in Art New England, October-November 2006, 9, 59.

“Los cuerpos de María Izquierdo y los debates culturales de los años 30,” in Miradas disidentes: géneros y sexo en la historia del arte: XXIX Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte, Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, forthcoming.

Exhibition catalog essay, “Tamayo’s Women,” in Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, Diana C. du Pont, editor. Santa Barbara/Mexico City: Santa Barbara and the Tamayo Museum, forthcoming 2007.

“De Santa a la India Bonita,” in María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Carmen Ramos Escandón and Susie Porter, (eds.), Orden social e identidad de género. México siglos XIX y XX, Guadalajara, CIESAS-Universidad de Guadalajara, 2006.

Catalog entries: “José Clemente Orozco,” and “María Izquierdo,” in Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, ed. Blanton Museum of Art: Latin American Collection, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.

“The India Bonita Beauty Contest: Gender, Modernity and Tradition in Mexico City, 1921,” in Seeing and Beyond: Essays on 18th-21st Century Art in Honor of Kermit S. Champa, Deborah Johnson and David Ogawa, eds. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2005.