Participant Info
- First Name
- Savannah
- Last Name
- Esquivel
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- savannae@ucr.edu
- Affiliation
- University of California, Riverside
- Website URL
- https://arthistory.ucr.edu/faculty/savannah-esquivel/
- Keywords
- Art, Architecture, Material Culture, Visual Culture, Hispanic Americas, Colonial Mexico, Indigenous Communities, Nahuas, Catholicism, Monasteries, Missions
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a specialist in the architectural, material, visual, and religious culture of Latin America, with a special emphasis on Mexico and its Indigenous communities during the era of Spanish colonialism and its aftermath (ca. 1492-1920). In my writing and teaching, I combine an object-based framework to center Indigenous ways of knowing with the goal of disrupting unmarked forms of Euro-American knowledge production. I have a long-standing interest in the reclamation of spiritual objects and built spaces, with a particular focus on the material culture of Catholic missions in Mexico, California, and the Southwest United States. My research has been supported by the UC-Huntington Program for the Advancement of the Humanities Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Mexico
- Expertise by Geography
- Latin America, Spain
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Indigenous Peoples
