Research

Research Interests
Visuality, optics, text/image relationships, mnemonics and rhetorics, visual culture of Iberoamerican Viceroyalties, cross-cultural contact and exchange between Ibero-America and Europe in the Early Modern Period (visual and material culture), History and Collecting and Display, Aby Warburg’s image theory and Bildwissenschaft.
 

Awards and Grants

  • 2018 Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, CONACYT, nivel II.
  • 2014 Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, CONACYT, nivel II.
  • 2014-2018 Fellow Researcher Bilderfahrzeuge Project: Aby Warburg's Legacy and the Future of the Iconology, Warburg Institute, London and Interdisziplinäres Labor Bild-Wissen-Gestaltung, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humbodlt-Universität, Berlin.
  • 2011-2012 Reviewer at CONACYT: Quality Graduate Programs in the Area 4 “Humanities and Education”.
  • 2012 Grant from eikones (University of Basel, Switzerland) (1. April- 30. Mai).
  • 2006-2008 German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), Post-doc Fellowship as part of the program Graduiertenkolleg Bild-Körper- Medium. Eine anthropologische Perspektive, Karlsruhe.
  • 1999-2003 PhD Fellowship, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Germany.
  • 2001 Grant for 26. Internationaler Wolfenbütteler Sommerkurs: Philosophie und Theologie des 15. und 16. Jh. (01.08-30.09)
  • 1996-1997 M.A. Fellowship, DGAPA-UNAM, Mexico.
     

Advisory Boards

  • 2020-2021 Evaluating Commission: Humanities and Social Sciences. National System of Researchers (SNI- CONACYT).
  • 2019 Evaluating Comission: Subprograma de Incorporación de Jóvenes Académicos de Carrera (SIJA), Area: Modern Art, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, October-December.
  • 2016 Evaluating Commission. Postdoctoral Fellowships for CONACYT.
  • 2015 Evaluating Commission: Programa Nacional de Posgrados de Calidad (PNPC), CONACYT.
  • 2015 Evaluating Commission: Postdoctoral International Fellowships, CONACYT.
  • 2014 Evaluating Commission: Programa Nacional de Posgrados de Calidad (PNPC), CONACYT 2014.
  • 2012 Evaluating Commission: Programas de Posgrado de Calidad en el Extranjero, CONACYT-DAAD.     
  • 2011 Evaluating Commission: Programa de Doctorado en Historia del Arte, FFyL, UNAM.
  • 2011 Evaluating Commission:  Licenciatura en Historia del Arte, IIE-UNAM.
  • Evaluating Commission: Maestría en Historia del Arte, FFyL, UNAM.
     

Editorships and Editorial Boards

  • since 2021 Revista Quintana, Revista de Estudios del Departamento de Historia del Arte, de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
  • since 2020 Ars Longa, Cuadernos de arte, Universitat de València
            

Ongoing Research Projects with third-party funding

  • Since 2019 Coordinator of the research proyect PAPIIT IN403619 “Aby Warburg y los estudios precolombinos: reconstrucción historiográfica y desarrollo teórico.” DGAPA- UNAM.