CNAIS has听welcomed four new Core Faculty Members this Spring!
We would like to give a warm welcome to our four new Core faculty members:听
Leila Gomez, Professor of Women & Gender Studies
Dr. Leila G贸mez in an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at CU Boulder. Her research interests include Latin American and Indigenous literature, film and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis in the Andes, Mexico, Paraguay and Argentina. She is the Director of the听at CU Boulder. Dr.听G贸mez is also a recipient of our recent round of project and research grants. You can learn more about her project here.
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Ambrocio Guti茅rrez Lorenzo, Assistant Professor of Linguistics听
Ambrocio Guti茅rrez Lorenzo听earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 2021. He earned his MA in 2014 at the听Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog铆a Social (CIESAS), Mexico.听He is a documentary and descriptive linguist whose research focuses on the syntax and semantics of the Zapotec (Otomanguean) languages of southern Mexico. He has also worked on adjacent areas of phonology and morphology and has broad interests across all the linguistic subfields, including especially discourse analysis and historical linguistics.
He promotes听work on indigenous languages by native听speakers and members of heritage communities. He himself is a native speaker of Teotitl谩n del Valle Zapotec and he has collaborated with other Zapotec and non-Zapotec colleagues to develop academic and revitalization materials.
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James M. C贸rdova, Associate Professor of Art & Art History
Professor C贸rdova received his Ph.D. from Tulane University and is Associate Professor of Art History. He teaches courses in Pre-Columbian art, Colonial Latin American art, and and critical theories. Professor C贸rdova鈥檚 current research examines the exchange of sacred objects and images between Indigenous and Spanish groups in the years leading up to the fall of Aztec Mexico. Additionally, it examines how conquest narratives were negotiated by artists and art patrons in select colonial Mexican religious artworks and public monuments. Another project focuses on the role that Indigenous cosmology and Christianity had in colonial Mexican floral imagery and flower works.
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Professor Christina Stanton (she/they) joins the Colorado Law faculty after most recently serving as the Director Operations at First Peoples Worldwide, an organization housed out of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado. There, Professor Stanton led targeted international advocacy and research strategy on behalf of Indigenous partners in parallel with market-based corporate advocacy to better integrate Indigenous rights into routine business operations. Professor Stanton also developed and led the internship and externship program to develop young legal and business professionals in the field.听Professor Stanton holds a J.D. with an American Indian Law certificate from the University of Colorado and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. She听is also a recipient of our recent round of project and research grants. You can learn more about her project here.听
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