Ana has a bachelor’s degree in art and art history from Los Andes University, Bogotá. Her research interests include religious and secular art and material culture that resulted from the encounter between South and Central Native Americans and the Spanish crown during the colonial period. Since starting at Bard Graduate Center, she has deepened her research about the trade of natural sources, knowledge, and daily practices around cooking, social manners, and consumption among the elites of New Granada, connected to both the Atlantic and Pacific worlds that shaped the material culture of the colonial period in these Spanish colonies. Reconstruction of historic objects has been an important component of her career; thus, previous starting graduate school, she developed through courses on fashion theory and early modern textile techniques, and in woodworking, where she sought to understand furniture-making methods of the colonial period.

Qualifying Paper: Francisca Caicedo y Florez, a Woman with a Taste for Chocolate

Digital Project: A taste for Chocolate in New Granada

Internship: Assistant Curator at Saint John Baptist Convent