2022
Thesis: “Altered Space: On the Altar-Installation Works of Patssi Valdez, 1990-1996” (Supervisor: George Flaherty)
María Emilia Fernández Nadurille, MA
Assistant Curator, Visual Arts Center, UT Austin
Thesis: “Reimagined Family Ties: Redressing Memory through Photography in the Work of Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Aline Motta and Juliana dos Santos” (Supervisor: Adele Nelson)
2021
Curatorial Assistant/Communications Coordinator, Chinati Foundation
Thesis: “Embracing the (un) Desired: Disability, Environment, and Citizenship in Laura Aguilar’s Photographs” (Supervisor: George Flaherty)
Linde Family Foundation Coordinator of Academic Access, Colby College Museum of Art
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
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Université de Nantes
Dissertation: “Built Over Volcanic Lands: Architecture in El Pedregal 1943-1952″ (Co-Supervisors: George Flaherty and Andrea Giunta)
Executive Director and Curator, Houston Center for Photography
Assistant Curator, Mercosur Biennial 12 (2020)
Dissertation: “Ready-made Subjects: Non-object Art, Migration, and Democratic Transition in Peru, 1979-1981” (Co-Supervisors: George Flaherty and Andrea Giunta)
Executive Assistant to Deputy Director/Chief Curator, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles
Thesis: “Tracing Cultural Memory in the Work of Adriana Corral” (Supervisor: George Flaherty)
Assistant Curator, Americas Society, New York
Thesis: “Archival Practice and the Art of Roser Bru: Processes of History and Memory in 1970s Chile” (Supervisor: George Flaherty)
Curatorial Assistant, David Winton Bell Gallery / Brown Arts Institute, Brown University
Thesis: “The Public Poetics of Celia Alvarez Muñoz” (Supervisor: George Flaherty)
Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Studio Museum in Harlem and The Museum of Modern Art Joint Curatorial Fellowship, New York (2019-2021)
Thesis: (Co-Supervisors: Eddie Chambers and Cherise Smith)
2018
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Dissertation: “The Visual Art Legacy of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots” (Supervisor: Cherise Smith)
2017
Assistant Professor, Williams College
Dissertation: “The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde. Art, Collaboration, and Print Media, 1970-1985” (Co-supervisors George Flaherty and Andrea Giunta)
PhD Student, University of Maryland at College Park
Thesis: “Decentering Revolutionary Visions: The Politics and Poetics of Representation in Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s Coffea Arabiga” (Supervisor: George Flaherty)
2016
Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: “Latino Print Cultures in the U.S., 1970-2008” (Supervisor: Cherise Smith)
2015
Professor-Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
Dissertation: “Uncontainable Zapata: Iconicity, Religiosity, and Visual Diaspora” (Supervisor: George Flaherty)
Professor, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile
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)
Dissertation: “Reframing Latin America: Curatorial Practice and Latin American Art since 1992” (Co-Supervisors: Eddie Chambers and Andrea Giunta)
Project Manager, Bravo Construction and Remodeling
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, 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
International Curator, Tate Modern, London
Dissertation: “Pan-American Dreams : Art, Politics, and Museum-making at the OAS, 1948-1976” (Supervisor: Andrea Giunta)
2011
Assistant Curator, 21c Museum Hotels, Louisville
Thesis: “Los muros nos hablan: Graffiti in Valparaíso, Chile” (Supervisor: Andrea Giunta)
Curator, Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá
Thesis: “A Revision of Antonio Caro’s Formative Period, 1970-1976” (Supervisor: Andrea Giunta)