Shelley Garrigan

Bio

My research so far has centered on 19th century Mexican studies, museum studies, material cultural studies in Mexican contexts, 19th-21st century Mexican and Mexican American art, border art, Jewish/Mexican identities the U.S., Mexico and Israel as represented in contemporary documentary films, the history of cultural institutions in Mexican contexts and the intersections between 19th-century land tenure and internationally-circulated landscape paintings.  My first book, Collecting Mexico: Museums, Monuments and the Creation of National Identity (U of Minnesota, 2012) explores the parallel processes of national construction and economic modernization in 19th-century Mexico.  I am now shifting to social/environmental criticism, with a focus on the cultures of conservation in Mexico from the 19th century to the present.

Office Hours (S 25): Tuesdays and Thursdays by appt

Area(s) of Expertise

19th-century Mexican studies, material culture studies and literature, 19th-21st century Mexican, Latin American and U.S./Latinx art, histories of cultural institutions; collectionism in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Mexican and other Latin American contexts; intersections of economy and culture in the Hispanic world; landscape representations in the 19th and early 20th centuries; Jewish Studies in Mexican contexts, social/environmental criticism with a focus on the cultures of conservation in the neoliberal era