Recent Alumni 2025 Mia Villarreal, MA Associate Academic Advisor, School of Social Work, UT Austin “Online and Offline Solidarities: Dignidad Rebelde’s Multi-Platform Art-Activism on Palestinian Liberation” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) 2024 Nicole Smythe-Johnson, PhD Assistant Professor, Art History, Boston University “In Pursuit of a Subaltern Modernism: The Life and Work of John Dunkley” (Suerpvisor: Eddie Chambers) 2023 Julia Detchon, PhD Curatorial Assistant, Department of Prints and Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York “Working Around: Lea Lublin, Marie Orensanz, Mirtha Dirmisache, Margarita Paksa and the Active Spectator, 1968-1983” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) Eva Caston, MA Curatorial Assistant, Department of Prints and Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York “Waste/land/scape: Regina Vater, Cecilia Vicuña, and the Aesthetics of Garbage” (Supervisor: Adele Nelson) Victoria McCausland, MA Graduate Program Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University “The Species of Subversion: Three Paintings by Cecilia Vicuña” (Co-supervisors: Adele Nelson and George Flaherty) 2022 Sara Carrillo, MA JD Student, Stanford University Law School Thesis: “Altered Space: On the Altar-Installation Works of Patssi Valdez, 1990-1996” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) María Emilia Fernández Nadurille, MA Editorial and Research Associate, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City Thesis: “Reimagined Family Ties: Redressing Memory through Photography in the Work of Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Aline Motta and Juliana dos Santos” (Supervisor: Adele Nelson) Alexann Sushultz, MA Artist Liaison, Tina Kim Gallery Thesis: “The Brown Project: rafa esparza: Adobe, Land, and Body” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) 2021 Karina Salcido, MA Assistant Curator and Communications Coordinator, Chinati Foundation Thesis: “Embracing the (un) Desired: Disability, Environment, and Citizenship in Laura Aguilar’s Photographs” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) Alexandra Mendez, MA Curatorial Assistant, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan Thesis: “‘Sketches of Resistance and Liberation’: Juan Carlos Alom’s Periodo Especial, Havana Solo, and the Imaginary of the Special Period” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) 2019 Cristóbal Jácome Moreno, PhD Independent Curator & Faculty, Graduate Program in Art History, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City Dissertation: “Built Over Volcanic Lands: Architecture in El Pedregal 1943-1952″ (Co-Supervisors: George Flaherty and Andrea Giunta) Dorota Biczel, PhD Term Assistant Professor, Art History, Barnard College, New York Dissertation: “Ready-made Subjects: Non-object Art, Migration, and Democratic Transition in Peru, 1979-1981” (Co-Supervisors: George Flaherty and Andrea Giunta) Emily Butts, MA Director, Pitzer College Art Galleries Thesis: “Tracing Cultural Memory in the Work of Adriana Corral” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) Rachel Remick, MA Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York Thesis: “Archival Practice and the Art of Roser Bru: Processes of History and Memory in 1970s Chile” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) Sofia Retta, MA Training and Reports Specialist, Gallery Systems Thesis: “The Public Poetics of Celia Alvarez Muñoz” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) Lilia Taboada, MA Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance, Museum of Modern Art, New York Thesis: (Co-Supervisors: Eddie Chambers and Cherise Smith) 2018 Rose Salseda, PhD Assistant Professor, Art History, Stanford University Dissertation: “The Visual Art Legacy of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots” (Supervisor: Cherise Smith) 2017 Mari Binnie Rodríguez, PhD Associate Professor, Art History, Williams College Dissertation: “The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde. Art, Collaboration, and Print Media, 1970-1985” (Co-supervisors George Flaherty and Andrea Giunta) Patricia Ortega Miranda, MA PhD Student, University of Maryland at College Park & Lecturer of Art History, Catholic Museum of America Thesis: “Decentering Revolutionary Visions: The Politics and Poetics of Representation in Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s Coffea Arabiga” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) 2016 Tatiana Reinoza, PhD Associate Professor, Art History, University of Notre Dame Dissertation: “Latino Print Cultures in the U.S., 1970-2008” (Supervisor: Cherise Smith) 2015 Luis Vargas Santiago, PhD Professor-Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City Dissertation: “Uncontainable Zapata: Iconicity, Religiosity, and Visual Diaspora” (Supervisor: George Flaherty) Sebastian Vidal, PhD Professor, Art History, Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Director, Fundación Cultural CEdA, Santiago, Chile Dissertation: “Small Town, Incredible Hell: Visual Arts, Advertising and Mass Media in the Early Democratic Transition in Chile, 1988-1994” (Co-Supervisors: George Flaherty and Andrea Giunta) Abigail Winograd, PhD Co-director and Chief Curator, Pueblo Unido Gallery, Centro Romero, Chicago Commissioner and Curator, US Pavilion 2024 Venice Biannale Dissertation: “Reframing Latin America: Curatorial Practice and Latin American Art since 1992” (Co-Supervisors: Eddie Chambers and Andrea Giunta) Doris Bravo, PhD Content Program Manager, Hogarth Worldwide Dissertation: “Adventures on Paper and in Travesía: The School of Valparaíso Visualizes America, 1965-1984″ (Co-Supervisors: Ann Reynolds and Andrea Giunta) Cynthia Francica, PhD, Comparative Literature Associate Professor, Literature, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile Dissertation: “Distant Intimacies: Queer Literature and the Visual in the U.S. and Argentina” (Co-Supervisors: Ann Cvetkovich and Andrea Giunta) 2012 Michael Wellen, PhD Senior Curator, International Art, Tate Modern, London Dissertation: “Pan-American Dreams : Art, Politics, and Museum-making at the OAS, 1948-1976” (Supervisor: Andrea Giunta) 2011 Amethyst Rey Beaver, MA User Experience Designer, ModMed Thesis: “Los muros nos hablan: Graffiti in Valparaíso, Chile” (Supervisor: Andrea Giunta) Paula Bossa, MA Curator, Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá Thesis: “A Revision of Antonio Caro’s Formative Period, 1970-1976” (Supervisor: Andrea Giunta)
