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First Name
Kristi
Last Name
Peterson
Country
United States
State
NY New York
Affiliation
Skidmore College
Website URL
https://www.skidmore.edu/arthistory/faculty/peterson.php
Keywords
history of art, visual culture, Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, indigenous studies, the visual cultures of the Americas, history of collecting, museums, early modern history, global modernisms, material culture, Latin America, religion
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PhD
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About Me

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Skidmore College

Ph.D., 2017, Florida State University

Dissertation:  “Consumption and Construction:  Devotional Images and the Place of Empire in Postclassic Mexico, 1325-1521” (2017)

I teach courses on the art and culture of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica; the visual cultures of the Americas; how Pre-Columbian visual culture is collected and displayed; the Americas as a cultural construct; Latin American film, and modern art in a global context.

Research interests include:  The sacred image and devotional objects in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the visual cultures of the Americas, Colonial and European representations of New World sacra and ritual, global modernisms, theories of representation, and the construction of narratives of place and cultural identity through the art object.

Recent Publications

(In Press) “The Sculptural Presence: Aztec Incensarios, Animacy, Agency, and Materiality.” In, Mesoamerican Ceramics: Form, Function, and Meaning, edited by Michael D. Carrasco and Maline D. Werness-Rude. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2018.

(2017) “The Global Art of Zao Wou-ki,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 21:1. Co-Author: Laura Lee, Ph.D.

(2014) “Discourses of Power: Andean Colonial Literacies and The Virgin Mary of the Mountain,” Athanor XXXII.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Mexico
Expertise by Geography
Latin America
Expertise by Chronology
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History