These institutions offer opportunities for pursuing a Ph.D. and/or M.A. in Latin American art history.
The list is organized alphabetically by institution and currently emphasizes programs in the United States; where not specified, the program offers a Ph.D. in art history.

This guide is intended as a bare-bones directory and does not generally include faculty in related fields (history, Spanish, anthropology, literature, Latin American and/or Iberian Studies, etc.). Students interested in certain Latin American countries whose artistic forms are strongly influenced by African traditions (e.g. Cuba , Brazil) might also consider programs with faculty interested in the Diaspora.

Academic Programs

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
School of Art
Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol, Pre-Columbian and Early Colonial Art

Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 
History of Art and Architecture
Ana María Reyes, Modern and Contemporary Latin America

California State University, Fullerton, California
History of Art, M.A. only
Elisa C. Mandell, Pre-Columbian and Latin American Art

California State University, Long Beach, California
Art Department, M.A. only
Catha Paquette, Pre-Columbian art and 19th & 20th Century Latin American

California State University, Los Angeles, California
Art Department, M.A. only
Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Mesoamerica

City College of New York, New York, New York
Art Department, M.A. Only
Anna Indych-López, Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art History

CUNY The Graduate Center, (City University of New York), New York, New York
Art Department
Anna Indych-López, Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art History
Katherine Manthorne, Art of the Americas, Modern Latin American, Latino Art
Judy Sund, Art of the Americas (Pre-Columbian to Modern)
Amanda Wunder, 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish Art

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Department of Art History
M.A. and Ph.D., American Studies

Columbia University, New York, New York
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Kellie Jones, African American, African Disapora, Latin American
Alessandra Russo, Colonial Latin America (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese)
Lisa Trever, Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Department of History of Art and Visual Studies
María Fernández, Modern and Contemporary Latin America
Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America
Ella Maria Diaz, Chicana/o art and visual culture (Department of English; Latina/o Studies Program)

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Esther Gabara, 20th Century Latin American Visual Culture and Literature (joint appointment in Romance Studies)

Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Art History Department
Megan E. O’Neil, Art of the Ancient Americas

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance

Michael Carrasco, Mesoamerica, Maya and Mayan epigraphy
Paul Niell, Colonial Latin American, Caribbean, and Early Modern Atlantic World Art History and Material Culture
Robinson Herrera, Colonial Latin American (Department of History)
Brendan Weaver, Colonial Latin American and Afro-Andean Historical Archaeology

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Department of History and Art History, M.A. only
Michele Greet, Modern Latin American Art History

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dept. of History of Art and Architecture
Thomas Cummins, Pre-Columbian and Latin American Art
Patricio del Real, Modern Latin American Architecture
Felipe Pereda, Late Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Art and Architecture

Hunter College, City University of New York
Art Department, M.A. only
Lynda Klich, Viceregal, Modern, and Contemporary Latin American Art
Harper Montgomery, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
History of Art
Lisa Deleonardis, Ancient archaeology and art of the Americas 
Aaron M. Hyman, Art of the Spanish Empire

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
School of Art, M.A. only
Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, Colonial Latin American Art

New York University, New York
Institute of Fine Arts

Jens Andermann, Contemporary Latin American and Brazilian literature, film, visual arts and architecture; material culture, museums and exhibitions; critical geography and landscape studies; postnatural aesthetics and theory (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese)
Miriam Basilio, Modern Spanish and Latin American Art
Anthony Meyer, Ancient Americas
Edward J. Sullivan, Modern Latin American and Caribbean Art

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Department of Art History
Jesús Escobar, Architecture and urbanism of the Spanish Habsburg world
Krista Thompson, Art of the African Diaspora

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Department of History of Art
Carlos Rivas, Ancient and Colonial Latin American Art and Architecture, U.S. Contemporary Latinx Art

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
Department of Art
Cristina Cruz González, Pre-Columbian and Colonial New Spain, Art of the Early Modern Spanish World

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Department of Art History
Amara Solari, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art and Architecture

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
Graduate School, Department of Humanities
M.A. only, Masters in Art History and Curating 
Cécile Michaud, European baroque art, viceregal arte, ties between European and Viceregal art
Fernando Villegas, Peruvian and Latin American art in the 19^th and 20^th centuries
Juan Carlos Estenssoro, Baroque art
Krzysztof Makowski, Prehispanic iconography and Ancient art of Europe

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Department of Art and Archaeology
Irene Small, Modern and Contemporary Art in a transnational context; Brazilian art

Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
Department of Art History, M.A. only
Patrice Giasson, Latin American and Pre-Columbian Art 

Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Department of Art History and Art Conservation
Gauvin Alexander Bailey, 16th-18th century Southern and Central European arts and their international diffusion in Latin America and Asia

Rice University, Houston, Texas
Department of Art History
Fabiola Lopez-Duran, Modern Latin American Art

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Department of Art History
Sarah Brett-Smith, African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art
Tatiana Flores, Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Art History, Theory and Criticism, M.A. only
Daniel Quiles, Latin American Art

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Art History Department
Beatriz Balanta, 19th-century Latin America
Roberto Conduru, Modern and Contemporary art and architecture in Brazil, Afro-Brazilian art
Adam Herring, Ancient Americas and Colonial Latin American
Adam Jasienski, Early Modern Latin America and Spain

Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
Art History Department, M.A. only
Lori Diel, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American

Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art History Department
Mariola V. Alvarez, Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
School of Art, M.A. only
Lesley A. Wolff, Latinx and Latin American art and critical theory

Tufts University, Medford/Boston, Massachusetts
Dept. of Art and Art History, M.A. only
Adriana Zavala, Modern and Contemporary Mexican, Latin America, Chicanx  and Latinx Art and Visual Culture

Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Art Department
MA in art history; PhD joint degree in Art History and Latin American Studies
Adrian Anagnost, Modern and Contemporary Latin America, Brazil
Mia Bagneris, African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora, Caribbean
Barbara Mundy, Ancient Americas, Colonial Latin America, Ethnohistory, Mexico
Stephanie Porras, Early Modern Prints and Material Culture, Spanish World
Carol M. Reese, Modern Architecture, Urban Design, Mexico, Argentina, Panama
Thomas F. Reese, Colonial Latin American Architecture, Iberian World
Elizabeth H. Boone, Professor Emerita, Pre-Columbian, Colonial, Mesoamerica

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Department of the History and Theory of Art
Luisa Elena Alcalá, Iberian and Colonial Latin American Art

Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Department of Art History
Graduate School of Arts and Humanities
MA program only 
Ana M. Franco, Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
Juan Carlos Guerrero, Contemporary Latin American Art
Maria Clara Bernal, Contemporary Latin American Art
Verónica Uribe, 18th and 19th Centuries Latin American Art
Olga Acosta, Colonial/Viceregal Latin American Art

Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
Department of Art, PhD in the History and Critical Theory of Art
Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández, Viceregal Art of Mexico
Ana María Torres Arroyo, Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art
Olga María Rodríguez Bolufé, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Art
Dina Comisarenco Mirkin, History and Historiography of 20^th-Century Mexican Art and Design
José Luis Barrios Lara, Contemporary Mexican Art

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Department of Art History, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas
Pablo Francisco Amador Marrero, Art of New Spain
Clara Bargellini Cioni, Colonial Art of New Spain
Jaime Genaro Cuadreillo Aguilar, Viceregal Art of New Spain
A complete list of other faculty can be found at this website: http://www.esteticas.unam.mx/directorio_investigadores

University College of London, England
Department of History of Art
Emily Floyd, Pre-Contact and Colonial Andes

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Department of Art and Design
MA in Department of Art and Design; Interdisciplinary PhD
Odile Cisneros, Modernism and the Avant-Gardes, especially Mexico and Brazil (Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies/Comparative Literature)
Ann de Leon, Colonial Literatures and Cultural Studies (Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies)

University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Department of Art
Stacie G. Widdifield, Late Colonial and Modern Mexico

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
School of Art, M.A. only
Alexis Salas, Endowed Assistant Professor of Arts of the Americas, contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art, specialization in queer, trans, and feminist art
Ana Pulido Rull, Endowed Associate Professor

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
History of Art Department
Todd Olson, Early Modern Art of Europe and Latin America

University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
Department of Art History
MA in Art History; PhD in Visual Studies
Abigail Lapin Dardashti, Modern & Contemporary Latin American, African Diasporic, and Latina/o/x Art

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California
Department of Art History
Tiffany Barber, Modern/ Contemporary African Diasporic/ Atlantic world art
Charlene Villaseñor Black, Colonial and Modern Latin America, Chicano art
Zirwat Chowdhury,  18th/19th Century Atlantic world art
Stella Nair,  Ancient to Early Modern Americas Art, Architecture, and Urbanism
Thiago Sevilhano Puglierii, Brazil and Cultural Heritage/ Conservation studies

University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California
Department of Art History
Aleca Le Blanc, Modern & Contemporary Latin America
Karl Taube, Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Dept. of Anthropology)

University of California, San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, California
Department of Visual Arts

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, California
Dept. of History of Art & Architecture
Gerardo Aldana (art historian in Chicano Studies Dept), Pre-Columbian, esp. Mayan
Alicia Boswell, Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology

University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, California
Program in Visual Studies
Carolyn Dean, Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Latin America

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Dept. of Art History
Claudia Brittenham, Pre-Columbian and Colonial
Megan Sullivan, Contemporary Latin American Art

University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, M.A. in Art History; PhD in Arts of the Americas
Dept. of Art History
James Cordova, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art

University of Connecticut
Dept. of Art and Art History, M.A. only
Robin Greeley, Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art

University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Dept. of Art History
Monica Dominguez Torres, Renaissance and Baroque Art of Hispanic World
Janis A. Tomlinson, Art of Spain

University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
School of Art and Art History, Museum Studies, M.A. only
Annabeth Headrick, Precolumbian Art

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Department of Art History
Derek Burdette, Colonial Latin American art
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America

University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Art and Visual Culture, M.A. only
Susan Douglas, Culture and Art of Contemporary Latin America

University of Houston Clear Lake
Humanities Program, Liberal Arts Department, M.A. in Humanities with possible concentrations in Art History & Museum Studies
Beth Matusoff Merfish, Modern Latin American Art

University of Houston, Texas
Art History, M.A. only
Rex Koontz, Art of the Ancient Americas
Roberto Tejada, Modern, Contemporary, and U.S. Latina/o

University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Department of Art History
Andrew Finegold, Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas
Emmanuel Ortega, Colonial Latin America

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
School of Art and Design
Oscar Vázquez, Late Colonial and Modern Latin America and Spain

University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
Department of Fine Arts, Hite Art Institute, M.A. only
Christopher Fulton, Modern Mexican Art

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Department of Art History
Brendon McMahon, Visual and material culture of early modern Spain and the Spanish Americas

University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
School of Art, M.A. only
H. Rafael Chacón, Contemporary Latin American Art

University of Missouri-Kansas City
Department of Art and Art History, Latinx and Latin American Studies Program
M.A. in Art History and IPhD (Interdisciplinary PhD)
Joseph R. Hartman, Art of the Americas (ancient to present), Modern Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Art, Art of the African Diaspora

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Department of Art
Margaret Jackson, Ancient Americas and Visual Culture Studies
Ray Hernández-Durán, 16th- through 19th-century Latin American Art, U.S. Latinx Art, and Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora
Kency Cornejo, Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art History

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Department of Art History
Eduardo Douglas, Pre-Columbian, Colonial and Modern Latin America American Art, Latin Americans of African Descent
Lyneise Williams, Early 20th Century Latin
Laura Amrhein, [Visiting faculty], Pre-Columbian Art, Twentieth-Century Art, Maya Art

University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Department of Art Education and Art History, M.A. only
Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Colonial Latin American Art

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
Department of Art, Art History & Design, M.A. only
Michael Schreffler, Colonial New Spain & Andes

The University of Oregon
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Keith Eggener, Modern architecture of the Americas

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Jennifer Josten, Modern and Contemporary Art of the Americas and Europe; Art and Architecture of Mexico

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
Department of Art History, M.A. only
William Barnes, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America
Heather Shirey, Afro-Brazilian Art and Art of the African Diaspora

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Department of Art History
Daniela Bleichmar, Colonial/Trans-Atlantic plus faculty in Spanish and Portuguese, American Studies and Ethnicity, Cinema and Media Studies, History, and other departments

University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Dept. of Art & Art History

C. Ondine Chavoya, Chicanx Art, Latinx Visual Culture, and Contemporary Art
George Flaherty, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and U.S. Latino Art
Julia Guernsey, Mesoamerica-Preclassic
Adele Nelson, Modern and Contemporary Latin American
David Stuart, Mesoamerica/Maya Hieroglyphic Writing

University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas
Department of Art History; MAIS only (Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Art History), Certificate in Latin American Art History
Katherine McAllen, Spanish Colonial Art of Peru and Mexico

University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
Dept. of Art & Art History, M. A. only
Teresa Eckmann, Modern and Contemporary Latin America
Juliet Wiersema, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art

University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Department of Art History, M.A. only
Elena Shtromberg, 20th-century Latin American art and visual culture

University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Visual Arts Department
Cody Barteet, Precolumbian Art and Architecture, Early Modern Art and Architecture in Latin America and Europe
Alena Robin, Colonial Latin America

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virgina
Dept of Art History
James Farmer, Pre-Columbian/Ecuador & Peru, Southwest, Mesoamerica
Margaret Lindauer, Museum Studies/Frida Kahlo

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Program in Environmental Design and Planning, College of Architecture and Urban Studies
Humberto Rodríguez-Camilloni, South American Pre-Columbian & Spanish American Art & Architecture

Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 
Graduate Program in the History of Art in Collaboration with The Clark Art Institute, M.A. Only
Mari Rodriguez Binnie, Modern and Contemporary Latin American art

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Dept. of Art History
Allison Caplan, Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica
Cecile Fromont, Early Modern Africa and Latin America; Lusophone world
Catalina Ospina Jimenez, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music to join the Department of Art History in fall 2024

Last Update to Program List: August 2023 (ongoing). Efforts have been made to be as accurate as possible; if you see errors or know of a graduate program that is not listed here but should be, please email Daen Palma Huse at daen.huse.20@ucl.ac.uk.

Image: Casa Azul, Coyoacán, Mexico, photo courtesy of Jamie Ratliff