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
- 鈥淢apping Viceregal Mexico City鈥檚 Environmental History.鈥 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.
- 鈥淥n the Pre-Columbian Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel鈥檚 Design for Fernand Cortez.鈥
PUBLICATIONS
- 鈥淟a huella del agua鈥 (with Luis Gordo Pel谩ez) and 鈥溾楨n el arte de mi profesi贸n鈥: Adrian Boot y la tecnolog铆a holandesa en la Ciudad de M茅xico Virreinal鈥 (Spanish translation of article published in Journal of Latin American Geography). In John F. L贸pez and Luis Gordo Pel谩ez, eds., 鈥淢onumentos al agua: f谩brica, descripci贸n, e imagen de obras hidr谩ulicas en el M茅xico Virreinal.鈥 Special Issue, Bolet铆n de Monumentos Hist贸ricos, vol. 29 (forthcoming, fall 2015).
- 鈥淏eneath the Surface of a Map鈥 (with Alexander Hidalgo) and 鈥淚ndigenous Commentary on Sixteenth-Century Mexico City.鈥 In Alexander Hidalgo and John F. L贸pez, eds., 鈥淭he Ethnohistorical Map in New Spain.鈥 Special issue, Ethnohistory, vol. 61, no. 2 (Spring 2014).
- 鈥淚ntroduction鈥 (with Alexander Hidalgo) and 鈥溾橧n the Art of My Profession鈥: Adrian Boot and Dutch Water Management in Colonial Mexico City.鈥 In Alexander Hidalgo and John F. L贸pez eds., 鈥淚mperial Geographies and Spatial Memories in Spanish America.鈥 Special issue, Journal of Latin American Geography, vol. 11/S (2012).
- 鈥淚n the Midst of Floodwaters: Mapping Viceregal Mexico City鈥檚 Urban Transformation, 1524-c.1690.鈥 Rutgers Art Review, vol. 28 (2012): 35-52.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES
- 鈥淚ndigenous Commentary on Sixteenth-Century Mexico City,鈥 Center for Latin American Studies, Northwestern University, May 8, 2014.
- 鈥淭he Aquatic Metropolis: Mapping Water and Urban Form at Viceregal Mexico City,鈥 TePaske Seminar in Colonial Latin American History, Atlanta, Georgia, April 11-12, 2014.
- 鈥淭he Aquatic Metropolis: Mapping Water and Urban Form at Viceregal Mexico City,鈥 Mexican Studies Seminar, Katz Center for Mexican Studies, University of Chicago, March 11, 2014.
- 鈥淥n the Pre-Columbian Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel鈥檚 Design for Fernand Cortez,鈥 Conference on Latin American History, Washington D. C., January 2, 2014.
- 鈥淚ndigenous Commentary on Sixteenth-Century Mexico City,鈥 Deeper History: Contemporary Considerations of Architecture鈥檚 Long Past, MIT, June 1, 2013.
- 鈥淚n the Midst of Floodwaters: Mapping Viceregal Mexico City鈥檚 Urban Transformation, 1524-c.1690, University of Arizona, November 16, 2012.
- Invited Discussant, 鈥淔rom Tenochtitlan to La Ciudad de M茅xico: Transformations in the Early Modern City,鈥 United States of America Library of Congress and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, March 1-2, 2012.
- 鈥淭he Hydrographic City,鈥 Social Science Research Council, Savannah, Georgia, March 8-12, 2012.
- 鈥淣ature鈥檚 Machines: The Flood Control Devices of Adrian Boot,鈥 American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 5-8, 2012.
CONFERENCE SESSIONS AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
- 鈥淧recolumbia in Nineteenth-Century Art and Science,鈥 College Art Association, Washington, D.C., February 3-6, 2016. Co-organized with Lisa Trever.
- 鈥淧re-Columbia in the Modern Imagination,鈥 Conference on Latin American History, Washington D. C., January 2-5, 2014.
- 鈥淓nvironmental History of Colonial Mexico City,鈥 American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 5-8, 2012. Co-organized with Luis Fernando Granados.
- 鈥淭he Ethnohistorical Map in New Spain,鈥 American Society for Ethnohistory, Pasadena, California, October 19-22, 2012. Co-organized with Alexander Hidalgo.
- 鈥淭he Production of Maps in New Spain,鈥 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