George Flaherty

Dr. George Flaherty is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and Co-Director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS). His research focuses on modern/contemporary visual and spatial cultures in Mexico, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and their diasporic communities in the U.S., with emphasis on postcolonial studies, Afro-Latinx identities, and film/media studies. He is completing a book manuscript titled *Cross-Border Renaissances*, examining cultural exchanges between Mexican and Black American artists during the 1920s-30s. His first book, *Hotel Mexico: Dwelling on the '68 Movement* (2016), explored spatial dimensions of Mexico’s 1968 student movement and received the Arvey Book Award (2017). His scholarship appears in journals like *Social Text* and *Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians*, and exhibition catalogs such as *Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago* (2024).

Flaherty holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2011) and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. His work has been supported by grants from the Fulbright-García Robles program, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the Social Science Research Council. Recent projects investigate Cold War cultural solidarity, border architectures, and the entangled histories of Mexico’s Mexican Renaissance and the U.S. Harlem Renaissance.

Key awards include the ALAA’s Arvey Book Award (2017), Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalog Award (2021), and the SAH Founders’ Award (2015). His research bridges art history with urban studies, emphasizing how visual cultures shape political and social identities in transnational contexts.