Personal profile
About
Dr. Wolf's research and teaching in Art history embraces a transregional perspective, with a primary specialization in Latin American art and architecture, secondary area in Middle Eastern art and architecture, and a strong interest in diverse diasporic intersections across the Global South. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. Wolf also served as the Camfield Fellow for the Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) in 2013-2014, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in 2019. Her publications have been featured in Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, The Public Historian, and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, among others.
External positions
Assistant Professor in Art History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Aug 1 2018 → Aug 1 2020
Lecturer, Buenos Aires Global Program, New York University
Jan 1 2017 → May 1 2018
Instructor, PhD in Art History, Rice University
Aug 1 2011 → May 1 2018
Assistant Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Masters in Art History, Indiana University Bloomington
Aug 1 2009 → May 1 2011
Research Interests
- Diaspora and Identity in Visual Culture
- Islam in Latin American Visual Culture
- Latin American art
- Latin America
- Latin American architecture
- visual culture
- art and patronage networks
- Art and Patronage networks between Latin America and the Middle East
- Art and Patronage networks between Latin America and Africa
- Mudéjar
- Mudéjar forms and interpretations in Ibero-America
- The Global South
- Decolonial Theory
Disciplines
- History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
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Argentina's King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center: Transnational Patronage and Aesthetics in Latin America's Largest Mosque Complex
Wolf, O., 2022, In: The Religious Architecture of Islam.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Introduction to the Dialogues on Rethinking Interpretations of the Mudéjar and Its Revivals in Modern Latin America
Wolf, O. & Nespral, F. M., Jul 2022, In: Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. 4, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Islamic Architecture in the Americas: Advancing a Transregional and Hemispheric Approach
Wolf, O., 2022, Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow: (Re) Defining the Field.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Memorializing Migration: Immigrant Patronage, Public Memory and the Syrian Centennial Monument to Argentina (1910)
Wolf, O., 2022, Public Memory in the context of transnational migration and dsiplacement.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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"Modern and Contemporary Mosques in Latin America: Tracing Local and Transnational Dimensions through Temporal and Geographic Frames
Wolf, O., 2022, The Religious Architecture of Islam, volume 2: Africa, Europe, and the Americas.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter