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Fitzgerald, Xena, "Theatrical Objects: Material Culture of Jesuit Spectacle in the Viceroyalty of Peru" (Tulane University, S. Porras)

Flaksman, Catarina, "Concrete Affirmations: Architecture Exhibitions and Cultural Politics in Brazil and Abroad, 1930s–1960s" (Harvard University, P. del Real) 

Jozwik, Nicole, "Potosí’s Age of Wind: The Art and Material Culture of the Silver City’s Indigenous Miners" (Tulane University, B. Mundy, K. Lane)

Maher, Liam, "Queer Eschatologies: Transubstantiation in Contemporary Art of the Americas" (Temple University, M. Alvarez)

Marini, Kyle, "The Rainbow Prince: Huáscar Inca's Textile Portrait and the Crafting of Inca Sovereignty" (Penn State University, A. Solari)

Mazariegos, Eric, "Melting, Flowing, Roving: The Unstable Aesthetics and Material Volatilities of Tairona Metallurgy, ca. 1000–1500 CE" (Columbia University, L. Trever)

Menéndez Pereda, Alba, "Making and Experiencing Sacredness: The Architecture and Materiality of the Coricancha from the Inca Empire to the Early Colonial Period" (University of California, Los Angeles, S.Nair)

Plazas, Hugo, "The Image of Racialized Groups in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Costumbrista Painting" (University of Alberta, B. Boone, L. McTavish)

Robles Sepulveda, Constanza., "Visualizing Latin-, Hispano-, Ibero-, and Pan- American Alliances at International Expositions, 1901–1929" (Boston University, R. Ana María, A. Tseng)

Wellons, Gabriella, "Sculpting Earthen Architecture: Cupisnique Murals and Monumental Relief in Deep Andean History" (Harvard University, T. Cummins)