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An elegant archival workspace featuring a long, matte black desk with neatly arranged artifacts: a weathered terracotta fragment with intricate carvings, a lacquered Japanese box, a tiny Peruvian textile sample, and an ornate Islamic ceramic tile, all resting on cream-colored conservation foam. Behind them, tall bookshelves fade into a gentle blur, filled with carefully ordered volumes on global art. Cool, indirect studio lighting creates crisp but soft-edged shadows and gleaming highlights on the different textures. Captured in photographic realism from a slightly low, close-up angle with shallow depth of field, the image feels methodical, contemplative, and highly professional, emphasizing the rigor of research in global art history.

Academic Events

Explore recent courses, lectures, and workshops connecting global art histories with contemporary visual cultures worldwide today.

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Teaching global art histories

Teaching begins with close looking, dialog, and historical context. In my courses, students connect local case studies to transnational networks, challenging Eurocentric narratives while developing critical, inclusive vocabularies for interpreting images, objects, and built environments.

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A large, open research table covered with carefully arranged high-quality reproductions of artworks from different continents: a Renaissance drawing, a Mughal miniature, an Aboriginal dot painting, an Ottoman manuscript illumination, and a contemporary installation photograph. Transparent plastic sleeves, color-calibration cards, and small annotation sticky flags in muted tones suggest active scholarly work. Natural daylight from the left mixes with a desk lamp’s warm glow from the right, creating a nuanced interplay of shadows. Shot from a top-down, bird’s-eye perspective in photographic realism, with meticulous sharpness across the entire scene, the mood is analytical yet creative, highlighting the comparative and cross-cultural nature of global art history research.

Upcoming Events

2025-09-18

Graduate Seminar

Mexico City

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2025-09-23

Research Colloquium

Bogotá Colombia

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2025-09-28

Public Lecture

Santiago Chile

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2025-09-20

Curatorial Workshop

Toronto Canada

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2025-09-24

Doctoral Forum

São Paulo Brazil

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2025-09-30

Archive Visit

Berlin Germany

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2025-09-21

Museum Roundtable

Buenos Aires

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2025-09-27

Faculty Workshop

Cape Town

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2025-10-01

Online Webinar

Global Online

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