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Professor Mónica Domínguez Torres holds a joint appointment in Art History and Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Delaware's College of Arts & Sciences. She currently serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies. Her research focuses on early modern Iberian World arts, particularly cross-cultural exchanges between Spain and the Americas (1500–1700), with special emphasis on material culture, indigenous identity, and colonial visual politics.
Education:
- B.A. in Art History, Universidad Central de Venezuela
- M.A. in Museum Studies, University of Toronto
- Ph.D. in History of Art, University of Toronto
Research interests include colonial Latin American visual culture, indigenous heraldry in Mexico, Atlantic pearl industry symbolism, and the intersection of art with ecological and racial hierarchies. Her major work Pearls for the Crown (2024) examines how pearl trade objects reflected imperial ambitions and racialized natural resource exploitation. She has received prestigious grants from the Getty Research Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Renaissance Society of America.
Awards and recognition include the 2012 Eleanor Tufts Book Prize for contributions to Hispanic art history. Her collaborative efforts include co-editing Objects in Motion (2011) and co-teaching transnational art history courses. She actively engages in public scholarship through symposium organization and interdisciplinary research initiatives.
Grants and fellowships have supported her work on indigenous heraldry and early modern pearl economies. She mentors students through the Center for Material Culture Studies and collaborates with institutions like the Denver Art Museum and Library of Congress.
