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faculty
jeanette favrot peterson, associate professor
curriculum vitae
specialization
Precolumbian and Colonial Latin American art; Marian imagery; Early Modern Spain
office
Arts 1224
phone
805 893 7578
B.A. Wellesley College
M.A. Columbia University
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Jeanette Peterson has received grants from the Kress Foundation and the California Council for the Humanities and a University of California President's Research Fellowship. Her book publications include The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-century Mexico (University of Texas Press 1993) winner of the 1995 CAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award; and Precolumbian Flora and Fauna (Mingei Museum of International Art 1990). Her primary interest focuses on the complex interchange between the pre-conquest and European Renaissance worlds in the sixteenth
century, including the hybridity evident in pictorial
manuscripts as European alphabetic script replaced indigenous image-based
sign systems. Of her studies on the Florentine Codex by Bernardino
de Sahagún, the most recent is an essay titled “Crafting the
Self: Identity and the Mimetic Tradition in the Florentine Codex” (2003).
Currently, she is focusing on the imaging of women and the transferal and
transformation of Marian cults from Spain to the Americas. A particular
focus is the Mexican devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe resulting in several
articles, one in Art Journal (1992) and most
recently, an article, “Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe:
The Cloth,
Artist and Sources in 16th century New Spain” (The
Americas, 2005).
A book project is underway analyzing the evolving
iconography and political ramifications of both the medieval Spanish devotion
to Guadalupe, a black Madonna, and her American counterparts in South America
and Mexico.
undergraduate courses
Precolombian Arts of the Americas
Women and Power in the Precolumbian and Early Colonial Americas
The Arts of Spain and New Spain
Precolombian Art of Mexico
The Arts of Precolombian South America
Visuality and Text in the New World and the Old
Maya Art and Civilization
Art and Empire: Aztec, Inka and Spanish
graduate seminars
2001
Text and Image: Re-Representing Native Latin American Pasts
2002
Mapping the Sacred: Image, Ritual and Pilgrimage
2002
Encountering the Other, Discovering the Self: Representation and Difference in the Americas
2004
'We See and Hear': Constructing Identity in the Pictorial Histories of the Sixteenth-century Americas (with Cecelia F. Klein, UCLA, at the Getty Center).
2005
Las Tres Grandes: Women and Power in the Precolombian and Early Colonial Americas
2006
Visuality and Text in the New World and the Old
(with Ann
Jensen Adams).
