John L贸pez
Assistant Professor of Art History
Contact Information
Office: Filene 102
Phone: 518-580-5057
Email: jlopez1@skidmore.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2017
Monday, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Tuesday, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Or by appointment.
Degree Listing
- Ph.D. in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art, MIT (2013)
- Master of Architecture, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon (2005)
- Master of Arts, International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon (2004)
- Bachelor of Architecture, cum laude, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon (2000)
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
- Art and architecture of the pre-Columbian world and Latin America
- Histories of cartography, disasters, and urbanism
- Pre-Columbian art and architecture in the modern imagination
- Colonialism and post-colonial theory
COURSES
- Ways of Seeing: The Art and Architecture of Latin America
- Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture in the Modern Imagination
WORKS IN PROGRESS
- The Aquatic Metropolis: Mapping Water and Urban Form at Viceregal Mexico City
- 淢apping Viceregal Mexico City Environmental History.� In Luis Gordo Pel谩ez and John F. L贸pez, eds., A Companion to Viceregal Mexico City. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.
- 淥n the Pre-Columbian Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel Design for Fernand Cortez.�
PUBLICATIONS
- 淟a huella del agua� (with Luis Gordo Pel谩ez) and 湗En el arte de mi profesi贸n�: Adrian Boot y la tecnolog铆a holandesa en la Ciudad de M茅xico Virreinal� (Spanish translation of article published in Journal of Latin American Geography). In John F. L贸pez and Luis Gordo Pel谩ez, eds., 淢onumentos al agua: f谩brica, descripci贸n, e imagen de obras hidr谩ulicas en el M茅xico Virreinal.� Special Issue, Bolet铆n de Monumentos Hist贸ricos, vol. 29 (forthcoming, fall 2015).
- 淏eneath the Surface of a Map� (with Alexander Hidalgo) and 淚ndigenous Commentary on Sixteenth-Century Mexico City.� In Alexander Hidalgo and John F. L贸pez, eds., 淭he Ethnohistorical Map in New Spain.� Special issue, Ethnohistory, vol. 61, no. 2 (Spring 2014).
- 淚ntroduction� (with Alexander Hidalgo) and 湙In the Art of My Profession�: Adrian Boot and Dutch Water Management in Colonial Mexico City.� In Alexander Hidalgo and John F. L贸pez eds., 淚mperial Geographies and Spatial Memories in Spanish America.� Special issue, Journal of Latin American Geography, vol. 11/S (2012).
- 淚n the Midst of Floodwaters: Mapping Viceregal Mexico City Urban Transformation, 1524-c.1690.� Rutgers Art Review, vol. 28 (2012): 35-52.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES
- 淚ndigenous Commentary on Sixteenth-Century Mexico City,� Center for Latin American Studies, Northwestern University, May 8, 2014.
- 淭he Aquatic Metropolis: Mapping Water and Urban Form at Viceregal Mexico City,� TePaske Seminar in Colonial Latin American History, Atlanta, Georgia, April 11-12, 2014.
- 淭he Aquatic Metropolis: Mapping Water and Urban Form at Viceregal Mexico City,� Mexican Studies Seminar, Katz Center for Mexican Studies, University of Chicago, March 11, 2014.
- 淥n the Pre-Columbian Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel Design for Fernand Cortez,� Conference on Latin American History, Washington D. C., January 2, 2014.
- 淚ndigenous Commentary on Sixteenth-Century Mexico City,� Deeper History: Contemporary Considerations of Architecture Long Past, MIT, June 1, 2013.
- 淚n the Midst of Floodwaters: Mapping Viceregal Mexico City Urban Transformation, 1524-c.1690, University of Arizona, November 16, 2012.
- Invited Discussant, 淔rom Tenochtitlan to La Ciudad de M茅xico: Transformations in the Early Modern City,� United States of America Library of Congress and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, March 1-2, 2012.
- 淭he Hydrographic City,� Social Science Research Council, Savannah, Georgia, March 8-12, 2012.
- 淣ature Machines: The Flood Control Devices of Adrian Boot,� American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 5-8, 2012.
CONFERENCE SESSIONS AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
- 淧recolumbia in Nineteenth-Century Art and Science,� College Art Association, Washington, D.C., February 3-6, 2016. Co-organized with Lisa Trever.
- 淧re-Columbia in the Modern Imagination,� Conference on Latin American History, Washington D. C., January 2-5, 2014.
- 淓nvironmental History of Colonial Mexico City,� American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 5-8, 2012. Co-organized with Luis Fernando Granados.
- 淭he Ethnohistorical Map in New Spain,� American Society for Ethnohistory, Pasadena, California, October 19-22, 2012. Co-organized with Alexander Hidalgo.
- 淭he Production of Maps in New Spain,� American Historical Association, Boston, Massachusetts, January 6-9, 2011. Co-organized with Alexander Hidalgo.
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS
- 2013-15 University of Chicago, Provost Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholarship
- 2013-15 University of Southern California, Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (Declined)
- 2012 Academic Council of Learned Society, Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- 2012 Dartmouth College, Charles Eastman Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Declined)
- 2011 C. C. Royal Fund Dissertation Fellowship, MIT
- 2010 Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship
- 2010 Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Summer Fellow for Pre-Columbian Studies
- 2010 Graham Foundation, Carter Manny Award (Citation of Special Recognition)
- 2010 The Newberry Library, Short-Term Fellowship for Individual Research
- 2010 Latin American Studies Association, Travel Grant (to attend conference)
- 2010 Center for International Studies, Summer Fellowship, MIT (Declined)
- 2009 Fulbright Garc铆a-Robles, Institute of International Education (Mexico)
- 2009 Edilia and Fran莽ois-Auguste de Mont锚quin Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians