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Professor of Art History, University of Dayton

Judith L. Huacuja is a Chicana scholar who researches and teaches across the disciplines of ethnic studies, women's studies and visual culture. She brings expertise in Latin American and African American contemporary art history as well as a secondary emphasis in non-Western art history. Dr. Huacuja's recent research explores the cultural histories in African American as well as Latin American art of the Midwest. Her research and teaching methods analyze aesthetics and philosophies in relation to minority issues of resistance, activism and integration.

Dr. Huacuja's research grants include the College Art Association Cummings Fellowship, the Smithsonian Institution's Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Chicana Studies Dissertation Fellowship (UCSB), a UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant, several Ohio Humanities Council grants and an Ohio Arts Council grant.

Dr. Huacuja has undertaken numerous curatorial projects including "Three Generations of Chicana Art," "Latino Art of the Midwest," and "Sera," featuring artists whose work references Hispanic, Latino and Chicano social issues. Recent curatorial projects on African American artists include "Masks, Music, and Musings: A Retrospective Exhibition and Symposium on the Art of Curtis Barnes Sr." and "Marking the Past/Shaping the Present: The Art of Willis Bing Davis."

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Art History, University of Dayton

Education

  • 2000 
    University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D. Art History
  • 1995 
    Rice University, M.A. Art History
  • 1994 
    University of Houston, B.A. Art History
  • 1993 
    University of Houston, B.F.A. Fine Arts, Painting

Publications

  • 2011
    Marking the Past/Shaping the Present: The Art of Willis Bing Davis, University of Dayton
  • 2008
    Masks, Music, and Musings: A Retrospective Exhibition on the Art of Curtis Barnes Sr., University of Dayton
  • 2000
    California Chicana Collectives and The Development of a Liberatory Artistic Praxis in America, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 1995
    Spirituality and activism in the art of Robert Campbell, Rice University