Dr. Monica Dominguez Torres
Geology and Earth Science
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Canada
Biography
Dr. Torres is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware. She has published extensively on the art of the early modern Iberian world, with a particular focus on the cross-cultural exchanges that took place across Spain and the Americas during the period 1500-10. Her current book project, Pearls for the Crown: European Courtly Art and the Rise of the Atlantic Pearl Trade, 1498-1720,examines a selection of images and collectibles related to the Atlantic pearl industry, paying particular attention to the interplay between materialism, labor, and consumption that drove their production.
Research Interest
Geology and Earth Science
