University of California, San Diego

Alumna, Visual Arts

Visiting Professor

About

I am an associate professor of art history at Riverside City College and currently a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego's Visual Arts program, where I also completed my PhD in Latin American Visual Culture.  Before going to UCSD, I completed an MA degree in Pre-Columbian art history at Northern Illinois University. 

My research interests include ancient, colonial, and contemporary Mesoamerican ceremonial pageantry and public performance. I am currently conducting fieldwork in the highland Guatemala community of Momostenango concerning K'iche' Maya dance and ritual. One of my recent research topics involves the Maya response to neoliberalism, transnationalism, and globalization as enacted through community festivals and performance.