Associate Professor of Art

Office: Hillyer 215
Hours: Sabbatical
Phone: (413) 585-3137
Email: dleibsoh@email.smith.edu

Dana Leibsohn teaches courses on Latin American, American Indian, and African visual culture. She is active in the Latin American and Latino/a Studies program at Smith and the Five College program, Crossroads in the Study of the Americas. Her research and publications focus on indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America, in particular on maps and modes of literacy. She has won grants from the J. Paul Getty Trust and the National Gallery of Art. Currently, she holds a collaborative grant from the NEH to develop a multi-media project entitled, Vistas: Colonial Latin American Visual Culture: 1520-1820.(URL Link: http://www.vistas.smith.edu/vistas)

B.A. Bryn Mawr College
M.A. Unversity of Colorado
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles