Olivia Wolf

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    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 2018Aug 1 2020

    Lecturer, Buenos Aires Global Program, New York University

    Jan 1 2017May 1 2018

    Instructor, PhD in Art History, Rice University

    Aug 1 2011May 1 2018

    Assistant Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Masters in Art History, Indiana University Bloomington

    Aug 1 2009May 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