Kristi Peterson

Assistant Professor of Art History

CONTACT INFORMATION

Office: Filene 101
Phone: 518-580-5057
Email: kpeters4@skidmore.edu 

Spring 2024 Office Hours: 
Tuesdays, 10:00 am-11:00 am
Wednesdays, 5:30 pm-6:30 pm
And, by appointment Mondays-Thursdays.

DEGREE LISTING

• Ph.D., Florida State University
  (Dissertation: "Consumption and Construction: Devotional Images and the Place of Empire in Postclassic Mexico, 1325-1521."
• M.A., Florida State University
• B.A., Florida State University
  

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Kristi Peterson teaches courses on the art and culture of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica; the visual cultures of the Americas; how Pre-Columbian visual culture is collected and displayed; and modern art in a global context.

Her research focuses on sacred images in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica; Colonial and European representations of New World sacra and ritual; global modernisms; theories of representation, and the construction of narratives of place and cultural identity through art objects.