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Amara Solari is a Professor of Art History and Anthropology at Penn State University. Her research focuses on the inevitable inequities produced by cultural, visual, and theological exchanges between Indigenous groups in Mesoamerica and Spanish settler-colonists during New Spain. She centers her studies around material visual culture and has authored multiple articles as well as co-authored books and monographs spanning the pre-contact to early colonial periods. Solari employs an interdisciplinary approach reliant on art historical, ethnohistorical, and technical methods to investigate a wide variety of material architecture and urban design, including cartographic documents and religious statuary. Her recent publication, co-authored with Linda K. Williams, is titled 'Maya Christian Murals in Early Modern Yucatán' (2024, University of Texas Press) and features an interactive website that explores the impact of murals painted by Maya artists. Awarded a Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in August 2019, she served as the lead primary investigator for her project engaging the 'material turn' in humanities. Solari is currently writing a monograph titled 'Missions Impossible: Art, Franciscan Failure, and Puebloan Perseverance in Nuevo México'. She has been recognized with fellowships such as the Samuel M. Kress Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art and the John H. Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Penn State University • University Park, Pennsylvania
Teach various courses in Art History and Anthropology, focusing on Mesoamerican cultures and colonial history.
GRE scores are highly recommended but not strictly required for Applied Linguistics.