Nicole Jozwik is a student in the joint Art History and Latin American Studies Ph.D. program. She studies the religious art of the colonial Andes, with a current focus in Cuzco, Lima, Huancavelica and Potosí. Her research investigates how post-contact religious and cultural interchange impacted the formation of religious identities for both Indigenous peoples and their descendants. Her additional research interests include apparitional imagery, hagiographic artwork, pigment materiality and circulation, and religious studies. She earned her M.A. in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University and has received Quechua instruction through Centro Tinku, Cuzco, and Ohio State University.

Xena is a second-year Ph.D. student in Art History and Latin American Studies. She received her B.A. in Art History from Grinnell College and her M.A. in Art History from SMU. Her research addresses the intersections of visual art and performance in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with a focus on the Society of Jesus.

Tara Yanez is originally from Houston, Texas. After receiving her B.A. in English and Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin, she developed as an educator with the Teach for America program in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Fulbright ETA program in Cali, Colombia. She received her M.A. from Columbia University in Latin American studies while interning with International Center for Transitional Justice and writing a thesis on Colombian victim reparation laws. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American Studies at Tulane University and a fellow with the Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged Scholarship. Her dissertation research aims to understand how women in the urban periphery of Cali, Colombia create informal networks of resistance, security, and justice creation in environments with high rates of criminal violence. She works in collaboration with 

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Coleman's research looks broadly at Cuban and Caribbean art history, with a focused lens towards the intersections of cultural production and political resistance. She works currently as a Fellow with Open Channels, Canales Abiertos a global learning community of Caribbean popular theater artists, producers, scholars, students and enthusiasts based in New Orleans (USA) and Santiago de Cuba alongside her work as a Research Project Associate with the Latin American Writers Series program, housed in the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. Ms. Coleman holds a double BA from Seattle University in Interdisciplinary Arts (dual emphasis in Visual Art and Theatre) and Art History, and is currently continuing her studies in Latin American Studies and Art History.

Originally from Fairfax, Virginia, Michael Bromberg received a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s in linguistics from Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. Prior to studying in Colombia, he volunteered with a community development and conservation organization in Saraqiqui, Costa Rica, and worked for a financial services firm in Valparaiso, Chile. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University, where his research focuses on improvised poetic performance in the Andean region of Colombia.

Chassidy Simmons, a native of Mobile, Alabama, received her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Spanish from the University of South Alabama. For the gap-year between her undergraduate and master's studies, she taught English as a second language in Cuenca, Spain, with the Aprende Lenguas program at the Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha. Chassidy was awarded her M.A. in Hispanic Studies from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge after completing her thesis, “Redefining the Image of the Afro Puerto Rican Woman in Recent Narrative by Mayra Santos-Febres.” Since receiving her M.A. she has taught Spanish in K-12 and undergraduate programs. Her research interests include Afro-Latinidad and the Africana Diasporic studies, social movements, postcolonial theory, and intersectionality theory.