Maya Stanfield-Mazzi attended Smith College for her B.A. and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her fellowships include a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship for study in Peru. She was a visiting professor at Tulane University before coming to the University of Florida.

Dr. Stanfield-Mazzi specializes in art of the Pre-Columbian and colonial Andes. Her interests include the relationship of art to ritual and the links between disparate art forms, such as, for example, urban planning and textiles. She has published in Current Anthropology and Hispanic Research Journal and has an article in press that examines the collecting practices of colonial Andeans. Now she is writing a monograph on envisioning the Christian divine in colonial Peru. Other projects include a study of the visual culture of the Wari polity of ancient Peru.

Last year she presented papers in New Orleans, Boca Raton, and Lima, Peru. Topics included donor paintings and religious processions in colonial Cusco, as well as the history of scholarship on the "Cusco School" of painting.

Courses:

ARH 2050 Introduction to the History of Art

ARH 3653 Mesoamerican Art

ARH 3652 Ancient Andean Art

ARH 3664 Colonial Art of New Spain

ARH 3665 Colonial Andean Art

ARH 6918 Art and Urbanism in the Ancient Americas

ARH 6654 Pre-Columbian Art Seminar

ARH 6666 Colonial Latin American Art Seminar