James.Cordova@Colorado.edu
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James Cordova is Assistant Professor of Art History in Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art.

He received his Ph.D. from Tulane University (2006) and was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Art at Pomona College (2006-2008).

Dr. Cordova’s research interests include the roles and representation of gender, ethnicity, and sanctity in colonial Latin American cultures, as well as relations between text and image in colonial visual culture. His dissertation deals with these topics as they pertain to eighteenth-century Mexican portraits of nuns and the construction of Mexican-Creole religious identity, and is currently under review for publication. Recently, the journal Colonial Latin American Review accepted his article entitled, “Aztec Vestal Virgins and the Brides of Christ: The Spiritual Lineage of New Spain’s Monjas Coronadas.” Dr. Cordova has also written on colonial New Mexican religious art and representations of inebriation in colonial Mexican manuscripts and murals. At the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Cordova teaches classes in pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American art.