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About the Author
Olga Ulloa Herrera is Curatorial Advisor to the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum. She currently serves
as National Coordinator and Director of the Washington, DC Office of the Inter-University Program for
Latino Research (IUPLR), headquartered at the University of Notre Dame. In addition, she is Research
Associate with the Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art: A Digital Archive and
Publications Project at the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts-
Houston, and Research Associate with the Midwest Latino Arts Documentary Heritage Project at the
Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining the University of Notre Dame, Ms.
Herrera worked at the Smithsonian Institution as Program Specialist at the Smithsonian Center for
Latino Initiatives, where she devised, implemented and coordinated the Center’s Arts & Culture Program
(1999-2003). She is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Ph.D. Cultural Studies Program at George Mason
University with areas of concentration on Theories of Globalization and Modern and Contemporary Art
in Latin America. Her dissertation deals with circuits of culture and modern art in South America, 1940-
1945. Among her publications are “Raza Art & Media Collective: A Latino Art Group in the Midwestern
United States,” ICAA Documents Project Working Papers (September 2007) and Toward the Preservation
of a Heritage: Latin American and Latino Art in the Midwestern United States, Notre Dame: Institute for
Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame (2008).
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