Angelica Afanador Pujol

Biography

Ang�lica J. Afanador-Pujol (Ph.D., UCLA, 2009) specializes in the art, material culture, and architecture of the indigenous people of Latin America in the Pre-Columbian and Colonial periods. Professor Afanador-Pujols research interests include indigenous agency and the social function of art as it intersects with race and ethnic relations, justice, political interests, and consumption in early sixteenth-century Mexico. Her first book, The Relaci�n de Michoac�n (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico (UT Press, 2015), examines the relationship between text and images in the representation of political, factional, land and judicial conflicts in the images of the sixteenth-century manuscript Relaci�n de Michoac�n. Some of her other publications in English and Spanish include the essays entitled The Tree of Jesse and the Relaci�n de Michoac�n: Mimicry and Identity in Colonial Mexico (Art Bulletin, December 2010); J. Benedict Warren y su impacto en estudios michoacanos en Estados Unidos (In Abriendo Caminos: El legado de J. Benedict Warren a la historia y a la lengua de Michoac�n, 2012); and Let the Waters and the Pigments Flow on These Pages: Making and Emending Landscape in the Relaci�n de Michoac�n (In Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru: New Questions and Approaches, 2014). Prior to joining the School of Art at ASU, Professor Afanador-Pujol served as Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota (2008-2014); held an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University (2009-2010); and was a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Art History, UCLA (2005); an Associate Instructor, Department of the History of Art, UC, Riverside (2002-2003); and Adjunct Faculty, at the School of Art, University of Arizona (2001). She is also the recipient of several research grants, including an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2007-2008); and a UC MEXUS, Dissertation Research Grant (2005-2007). 

Research Interest

Pre-Columbian and Early Colonial Art of the Americas