Visiting Lecturer; History of Art & Architecture
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Constanza Robles is a historian of modern Latin American art and architecture, with a Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture from Boston University. Her research explores how international expositions fostered regional alliances and soft diplomacy between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her dissertation, “Visualizing Latin-, Pan-, Hispano-, and Ibero-Americanism Through Art and Architecture at International Expositions: Buffalo 1901, Rio de Janeiro 1922, and Seville 1929,” examines these dynamics through the lens of visual and material culture.
She has taught widely at Boston University, William Paterson University, and Universidad Católica de Chile, and curated Visualizing Property, a virtual exhibition with The Race & Regency Lab that explored race and property in Jamaica. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Terra Foundation, and the Wolfsonian Museum, and she has presented at major conferences including the College Art Association and the American Historical Association. She is an active member of the Institute for the Study of International Expositions (ISIE), where she co-organizes a speaker series and co-chaired the 2024 Emerging Scholars Symposium.
Research Interests:
- Modern and Contemporary American and Latin American Art
- Art and International Cooperation
- Material Culture
Dissertation [2025]:
“Visualizing Alliances: Pan Americanism, Hispanismo and Latin Americanism in the Art and Architecture of World Fairs, 1901-1929.”