Angélica Afanador-Pujol

Assistant Professor

Office: 370 Heller Hall

Office Hours - Fall 2009

On Leave

Phone: (612) 624-5595
Fax: (612) 626-8679

Angélica J. Afanador Pujol is a scholar of Pre-Columbian and Early Colonial Art of the Americas. Her courses explore a variety of media (ceramics, murals, prints, architecture and manuscript illuminations) to understand how the indigenous people of the Americas have represented themselves and been represented by others. She offers courses such as Mexico On My Mind (1500-1980s); Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas (900 B.C.-1600 A.D.); Early Colonial Art of Mexico and Peru (1600-1700); and Inca, Aztec and Maya Art.

In her current research project, The Politics of Ethnicity: Re-imagining Indigenous Identities in The Sixteenth-Century Relación de Michoacán (1538-1541), she explores how artists from Michoacán manipulated the ethnic identities of their indigenous rulers in images to maintain their social status in the new colonial order. Professor Afanador Pujol has been granted an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship for the academic year 2009-2010. Some of her forthcoming publications include the essays entitled “The Tree of Jesse in the Relación de Michoacán: Mimicry and identity in sixteenth-century Michoacán, Mexico;” and “J. Benedict Warren y su impacto en estudios michoacanos en Estados Unidos.”

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