Claudia Brittenham Assistant Professor PhD Yale University

Claudia Brittenham is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows. Her research focuses on the art of ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, engaging issues of art and identity, intercultural interaction, the materiality of art, and the politics of style. Her current project examines problems of visibility and the status of images in Mesoamerica. She has also served as Assistant Curator for Eastern Hemisphere Collections at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C.

Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color. Austin: University of Texas Press, forthcoming, 2009. (with Stephen D. Houston, Cassandra Mesick, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Christina Warinner)

"Los pintores de Cacaxtla." In La Pintura Mural Prehispánica en México: Cacaxtla, edited by Mária Teresa Uriarte. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, forthcoming.

"Maya Architecture." In Mesoamerican Architecture, edited by María Teresa Uriarte. Milan: Jaca Books, forthcoming. (with Mary Miller)

"Imágenes en un paisaje sagrado: huacas de piedra de los Incas." In La imagen sagrada y sacralizada: Memoria del XXVIII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, forthcoming.