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Edited Books and Catalogues

2017                with Joanne Pillsbury and Timothy F. Potts (eds.) Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas. Los Angeles: Getty Publications.

Awards:

Award for Excellence in the 2018 PROSE Art Exhibitions Category
2017 Foreward INDIES Finalist, Art (Adult Nonfiction)

 

2015                with Katherine A. Faust (eds.). The Huasteca: Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

 

Book Chapters

Forthcoming   “Las volutas entrelazadas de Tamtoc: La relación artística entre la Huasteca y el Veracruz central durante el periodo Clásico.” In Tamtoc: Ritualidad y organización social, edited by Estela Martínez Mora, Guillermo Córdova Tello, Patricia Olga Hernández Espinoza. (chapter in edited volume).

 

2017                “Sculpting Huastec Social and Gender Identity.” In Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas, edited by Sarahh E. M. Scher and Billie Follensbee. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

 

2017                “Bright Kingdoms: Art Production, Royal Courts, and Trade Networks in Postclassic Mesoamerica.” In Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas, edited by Joanne Pillsbury, Timothy F. Potts, and Kim N. Richter, 99–110. Los Angeles: Getty Publications.

 

2017                “Monte Albán.” In Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas, edited by Joanne Pillsbury, Timothy F. Potts, and Kim N. Richter, 105. Los Angeles: Getty Publications.

 

2017                “Intercambio interregional y materialidad del arte huasteco.” In Arqueología de                                   la Costa del Golfo. Dinámicas de la Interacción Política, Económica e Ideológica,                               edited by Lourdes Budar, Marcie L. Venter y Sara Ladrón de Guevara. Jalapa:                                    Universidad Veracruzana.

 

2015                with Katherine A. Faust. “Introduction: The Huasteca as Heartland in the Hinterlands.” In The Huasteca: Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange, edited by Katherine A. Faust and Kim N. Richter, 3‒18. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

 

2015                “Postclassic Huastec Sculpture: Constructing International Elite Identity in the Huasteca.” In The Huasteca: Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange, edited by Katherine A. Faust and Kim N. Richter, 75‒97. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

 

2008                “A Chronology of Pineda’s Hallmarks.” In Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda, 79–81. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA.

 

2008                with Betsy Quick. “Silver of the Taxco School.” In Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda, 83–179. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA.

 

Other Publications and Media

2017                “Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas.” Art + Ideas podcast with Getty president Jim Cuno.
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/audio-golden-kingdoms-luxury-arts-in-the-ancient-americas/

 

2013                “Getty Voices: Encounters with Indigenous Mexico,” The Iris: Behind the Scenes                               at the Getty.

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/encounters-with-indigenous-mexico-getty-voices/

 

2010                Contributor to “No. 69. Sculpture of Huastec Goddess.” In A History of the World                                in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor. London: Penguin Books.
The British Museum and BBC Radio 4

                        http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/nhxe3gAeQ3KW5746ILnGmA

Media Coverage

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ktjxvtgm6jtqnwv/AABVJgBy2Q8T4rCPsrB0EDsra?dl=0

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Country Focus

Mexico

Expertise by Geography

Central America, North America

Expertise by Chronology

Ancient

Expertise by Topic

Book History, Colonialism, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Material Culture, Slavery, Women