Art History Alumnus Paul Niell Named 2024–2025 Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Congratulations to Art History alumnus, Paul Niell, Ph.D. (2008), who has received an appointment as a 2024–2025 Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. At UNM, Niell worked with Professor Ray Hernández-Durán, and Niell is currently Associate Professor of Art History at Florida State University where he teaches courses on Spanish Colonial Art, Architecture of the Colonial Caribbean, and Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora.
As a CASVA Senior Fellow, he will be conducting research for his next book project, tentatively titled, Thatched Dwellings, Urban Lives: The Bohío and the City in the Late Spanish Colonial Caribbean, which was the focus of a conference, The Forgotten Canopy, which Niell co-organized with UCLA scholar, Stella Nair, Ph.D.
Among his many publications include his first book, Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba: Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754–1828 (2015) and the edited volume, Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin America, 1790–1910 (2013).
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