Patricia Alexander Lagarde earned her Ph.D. in Art History and Latin American Studies in May 2022. Her dissertation, “Facing Pilgrimage: Tenon Head Sculptures at the Ceremonial Center of Chavín de Huántar, Peru,” examines how sculpture, architecture, and ritual construct a multisensory experience for pilgrims to Chavín de Huántar. She is the recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, the Donald Robertson Prize for best graduate paper in the Humanities by a Latin American Studies graduate student, and a Stone Center Graduate Summer Field Research Grant. 

Patricia earned her B.A. in Anthropology from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX in 2007, followed by an M.A. in Anthropology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, in 2009. From 2010-2014 Patricia worked as the Executive Assistant to the Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). Prior to NOMA, she also held internships with the Kimbell Art Museum, NOMA, the Middle American Research Institute, and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Patricia has also participated as a contract researcher with Randi Korn and Associates, Inc. in projects for the National Gallery of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Please Touch Museum. Most recently, Patricia was a Research Affiliate with the Centro Internacional de Investigación, Conservación y Restauración (CIICR) del Museo Nacional de Chavín in Chavín de Huántar, Peru and taught Art History and Latin American Studies at Tulane University.

Sue Inglés has been with the University since 1981 and assumed the position of Assistant Director at the Stone Center in 1991. She is responsible for the administrative operations of the Stone Center including, financial and human resource management, property, equipment and facilities administration, information and technology management.

Originally from South Texas, Gabi Hutchinson Gallo is a first year MA-Latin American Studies student here at Tulane. She graduated with a BA in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Utah in 2018 and worked as an immigration paralegal after college. Last year she was accepted as a Fulbright ETA to São Luis, Brazil but was unfortunately returned home early due to the pandemic. Gabi‘€™s academic interests are in immigration and diaspora studies and hopes to begin law school in the fall here at Tulane to become an immigration attorney. When Gabi isn‘€™t reading, she enjoys cooking and watching Colombian telenovelas, her guilty pleasure.