Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard

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Bio

• NAME: Nenita Ponce de León Elphick
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: Latin America
• Ph.D., Harvard University (History of Art and Architecture)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • Colonial Latin America, focusing on the Andes and Mexico
  • conquest
  • visual culture and aesthetics, especially painting and photography
  • memory, death, ritual
  • manuscripts and print culture
  • indigenism
  • urbanism
  • transatlantic exchange
  • Catholicism, missions, and religious syncretism
  • history of archaeology and exploration
  • cultural property disputes
• DISSERTATION: "Memory, Presence, and Power: The Social Life of Peruvian Portraits"
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: elphick@fas
• HARVARD HOUSE AFFILIATION: Pforzheimer House

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• Barker Center 122, Cambridge, MA 02138
• Phone: (617) 495-4029 | Fax: (617) 496-5605 | Email: histlit@fas.harvard.edu

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