Anthony Meyer

Anthony Meyer is an Assistant Professor at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, specializing in Indigenous arts of the ancestral and early modern Americas. His research reframes art historical frameworks through Indigenous perspectives, integrating methodologies from archaeology, ethnohistory, and religious studies. Meyer holds a PhD in Art History (UCLA, 2023), an MA in Art History (UCLA, 2017), and a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology (UNC Chapel Hill, 2013).

His primary research focuses on Nahua art, language, and religion in the Mexica Empire and colonial New Spain. His forthcoming book, The Givers of Things: Relational Making in Nahua Religion, explores how religious leaders (tlamacazqueh) used material practices to form relationships with objects, redefining concepts of artistry through Nahuatl language frameworks. The book analyzes pre-Hispanic and colonial-era artifacts, emphasizing Indigenous understandings of relationality amid Iberian influences.

Meyer teaches courses such as Mesoamerican Art and Architecture, Indigenous Materialities of the Americas, and Indigenous Ephemeralities. His scholarship addresses decolonial methodologies in digital humanities and the intersections of art, religion, and colonialism.