Dana Leibsohn
Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Professor of Art
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Dana Leibsohn earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College; M.A. from the University of Colorado; and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Professor 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.
Professor Leibsohn's 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, and received a collaborative grant from the NEH to develop a multi-media project titled "Vistas: Colonial Latin American Visual Culture: 1520-1820."
