Barbara Mundy
Barbara Elizabeth Mundy is an American art historian specializing in pre-Columbian America, sixteenth-century Mexico, Latin America, and cartography.
Education[edit]
Barbara Mundy earned her B.A. from Yale College in 1984, her M.A. from Yale University in 1987, and her Ph.D. from Yale in 1993 with a thesis titled "The Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas of New Spain, 1579-c. 1584: Native Mapping in the Conquered Land".[1]
Career[edit]
Mundy has served as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute, Fordham University, and Yale University, and as an Associate and Assistant Professor at Fordham University prior to the full professorship she continues today. In addition, she has served as the Chair and Associate Chair of Fordham's Department in Art History and Music, and as the Associate Director and a member of the Executive Board for Fordham's Latin American and Latino Studies Institute.
Work[edit]
Mundy is the author of The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas (2000) as well as The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City (2015). In addition to her scholarly texts, Mundy is the author of numerous book reviews and journal articles. As part of her tenure at Fordham, Mundy has contributed to the University's Vistas project, an online art gallery that represents 300 years of visual history from Spanish America from 1520 to 1820.[2]
Awards and honors[edit]
Mundy was awarded the F. Blanshard Fellowship Fund Prize for her dissertation[1] and later received the 1996 Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography, the Association of Latin American Art's 2015 Margaret Arvey Foundation Award, and the 2016 Book Prize in Colonial Latin American Studies from the Latin American Studies Foundation.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Barbara Mundy : curriculum vitae". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820". vistas.ace.fordham.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
External links[edit]
- Official website at Fordham
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