Kristi Peterson

Kristi Peterson is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Skidmore College, specializing in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art and the visual cultures of the Americas. Her teaching includes courses on Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, global modern art, and the collection and display of Pre-Columbian visual culture.

• Ph.D., Florida State University (Dissertation: "Consumption and Construction: Devotional Images and the Place of Empire in Postclassic Mexico, 1325-1521")
• M.A., Florida State University
• B.A., Florida State University

Her research explores sacred images in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, colonial and European representations of New World sacred objects and rituals, global modernisms, theories of representation, and how art objects construct narratives of place and cultural identity. She integrates interdisciplinary methodologies to analyze the intersection of art, empire, and religious practices in the pre-Columbian and colonial Americas.