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Name: Adriana Zavala
Title: Assistant Professor
Departmental Affiliation: Art & Art History Department
Degrees: Ph.D., M.A. - Brown University; B.A. - University of Cincinnati
Expertise: Modern and contemporary Latin American art and visual culture
Major Awards: Awarded Research Fellowship for 2004-05, National Endowment for the Humanities; Awarded Tufts University Mellon Faculty Research Fellowship for 2004-05, declined; Marie J. Langloise Prize, Best Dissertation, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University; Robert Gale Noyes Fellowship, Brown University; Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid; Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellowship; FLAS Fellowship, The U.S. Department of Education and Center for Latin American studies, Brown University.
E-mail: adriana.zavala@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Art and visual culture in Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries, cultural nationalism, indigenism, representation of race, gender, relations between pictorial and literary modernism, surrealism, film genres in Mexico, and representation of Latinos in Hollywood.

Book (in progress)
"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

Essays
"María Izquierdo," in Mary Kay Vaughan and Steven Lewis, eds. "The Virgin and the Eagle: National Identity, Memory and Utopia in Mexico, 1920-1940," Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, forthcoming, September 2005.

Catalogue entries: "José Clemente Orozco," and "María Izquierdo," in Gabriel Perez-Barreiro and Courtney Gilbert, eds., "Latin American Art in the Collection of the Jack S. Blanton Museum," University of Texas Press, forthcoming, 2005.

"From Santa to the India Bonita and Back Again," in María Fernández Aceves, Susie Porter and Carmen Ramos Escandón, eds., "Historia de Mujeres y de Género en México," Guadalajara, Mexico: CIESAS OCCIDENTE, forthcoming, 2005.

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

Book Reviews
Tina Modotti. Letizia Argentieri, Yale University Press, 2004. The Italian American Review, forthcoming, 2005.

The Effects of the Nation. Mexican Art in an Age of Globalization. Carl Good and John V. Waldron, eds. Temple University Press, 2001, Hispanic American Historical Review, 83.3 (2003) 590-591.

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