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Curriculum Vitae
Luis Castañeda
Department of Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University
308 Bowne Hall A
Syracuse, NY 13244-1200
luis.m.castaneda@gmail.com
(001)-315-443-4875
Education
2007-2011
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Ph.D. History of Art
Major field: Twentieth-Century Art and Design in the Americas
Minor field: East Asian Art
Dissertation: The Serpent and the Torch: The Politics of Design, Mexico, 1968
Supervisors: Jean-Louis Cohen, Edward J. Sullivan, Barbara Weinstein
2006-2007
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
M.A., History of Art
2002-2005
School of Art, University of Houston
B.A., History of Art, Summa cum laude, Honors in Major
Major Field: Ancient Art of the Americas.
Senior Honors Thesis: Language and Power at Cerro de las Mesas, Veracruz, Mexico.
Supervisor: Rex Koontz
Book Manuscript
Suspending Disbelief: Toward an Image Economy of the Mexican “Miracle” (in
preparation).
Juried Journal Publications
2012
-“Choreographing the Metropolis: Networks of Circulation and Power in Olympic
Mexico.” (forthcoming, Journal of Design History, Special Issue on Olympic Design)
-“Travels in Olmec Time” (under review)
-“Translating Mexico: Glamour and Diplomacy at the Camino Real Hotel.” (in
preparation).
2010
-“Beyond Tlatelolco: Design, Media and Politics at Mexico ‘68”, Grey Room, vol. 40
(Summer 2010): 100-126.
-“Image-Machine: Félix Candela’s Palacio de los Deportes,” Pidgin, vol. 8 (Spring 2010):
246-257.
2009
-“Surrealism and Constructions of National Identity in Mexico: Changing perceptions,
1940-1968,” Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, vol. 3, no. 1-2 (Fall 2009): 9-29.
Book Chapters
2012
-“Pre-Columbian Skins, Developmentalist Souls: The Architect as Politician.” In: Helen
Gyger and Patricio del Real, eds. Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous
Territories. London: Routledge, (forthcoming).

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Book Reviews
2011
- Review of Felipe Hernández, Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary Architecture
in Latin America (Basel: Birkäuser, 2010), in Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians vol. 70 no. 2 (June): 254-255.
Other Publications
2012
Entries for “Zócalo,” “Metro” and “Plaza de las Tres Culturas” in Eric Zolov, ed. Icons of
Mexico (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2012) (in preparation)
Academic Positions
2011-present (beginning 08/23/2011)
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Department of Art and Music Histories
Assistant Professor
Courses taught:
Survey of Latin American Art I - Pre-Columbian to Colonial (Fall 2011)
Graduate Seminar: “Tropical” Imaginations in Modern Latin American Art and Design
(Fall 2011)
2009-2011 (09/01/09 to 05/18/11)
New York University, New York, NY, Department of Art History.
Adjunct Instructor
Courses taught:
History of Architecture, from Antiquity to the Present (Spring 2011)
Architecture in New York: A Field Study (Fall 2009, Fall 2010)
Painting and Sculpture in New York: A Field Study (Spring 2010, Spring 2011)
History of Art II, Renaissance to Modern (Spring 2009)
2008- 2009 (Summer)
New York University, Urban Design in London, London, UK.
Instructor / Program Assistant
Course assisted: Exploring British Architecture (taught by Mosette Broderick).
2007-2008 (09/01/07 to 05/16/08)
New York University, Department of Art History, New York, NY.
Teaching Assistant
Courses assisted: History of Twentieth-Century Architecture (taught by Carol Krinsky);
Shaping the Urban Environment (taught by Mosette Broderick).
Honors and Awards
2012 Quadrant Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota
2012 Opler Grant for Emerging Scholars, Society of Architectural Historians
2011-2012 Humanities Initiative Fellowship, NYU (declined)
2009-2011 Morse Academic Plan Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
NYU
2005-2011 Erwin Panofsky Multi-Year Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
2010 Dissertation Fellowship, Alumni Association, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
2009 Pinta Fund for Latin American Art award for dissertation research in Mexico
City
2008-2009 Connoisseurs Circle Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
2008 Travel grant, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
2007-2008 Fellow, forum on “Forms of Seeing,” Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, NYU
2005 Linda Schele Award for Outstanding Essay on the Art of the Americas, Univ. of
Houston
2004 Peter Guenther Travel Award, School of Art, University of Houston

2003-2005 Dean’s List, University of Houston
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Invited Lectures and Conferences
2012
-“Scenographies of Miraculous Mexico.” Quadrant Lecture, Institute for Advanced
Study, University of Minnesota, February 9.
2011
- “Museum, Monument, City: Archaeologies of Power in Modern Mexico”, Colloquium on
Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, New
York, December 1.
-“Our Man in Peru: A Cold War Story.” Latino-Latin American Studies Program,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, November 14.
-“The Small Field Complex,” in Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American
Art in the 21 st
Century, Getty Research Foundation, Museum of Latin American Art
(MOLAA) and Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, November 3 rd
.
-“Travels in Olmec Time.” Art and Music Histories Colloquium Series, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, October 24.
-“Diplomacy by Design: Architecture and Latin America’s Cold War.” Clarence Ward
Seminar, Oberlin College, Ohio, April 21.
2010
-“Burdens of Representation: Miraculous Mexico and the Hyperbolic Paraboloid.”
Parsons School of Design, New York, December 6.
-“Choreographing the Metropolis: Networks, Circulation and Spectacle in Mexico City.”
School of Art, University of Houston, November 3.
Conferences (Panels Chaired/Respondent)
2013
Panel co-Chair, with George Flaherty
-“Arts of Transition: Visual Culture, Democracy and Disillusionment in Latin America”,
College Art Association 101 st
Annual Conference, New York, February 13-16.
2011
Panel Chair, “Street Art and the Use of Spray Paint.” Syracuse University School of Art,
Syracuse, September 13.
Respondent, Works in Progress in Latin American Society and History, NYU Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, May 6. Paper: “Todos Somos Narcos:
Mexican Necropolitics at the 2009 Venice Biennale.” Christopher Fraga, New York
University.
2010
Panel Chair, “The Predicament of Proclamation: Architecture as State Image and
Instrument,” at Architecture and the State, 1940 to 1970, Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, April 3.
Respondent, Works in Progress in Latin American Society and History, NYU Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, April 30. Paper: “Essays, Ensayos and
Rehearsals of the Tragi-Cosmic Race.” Sarah J. Townsend, New York University.
Respondent, Works in Progress in Latin American Society and History, NYU Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, October 21. Paper: “'Harnessing Blind but
Powerful Forces': Architecture's Encounter with Self-Help Housing in 1950s Peru.”
Helen Gyger, Columbia University.
Conference Papers Delivered
2012
-“Architecture’s Cold Warriors: Rethinking Latin American Modernism,” Society of
Architectural Historians 65 th
Annual Meeting, Detroit, April 19.
-“Development’s True Colors: The Architectural Interventions of Carlos Cruz-Diez.” In

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Architectural Gestures: Spaces Between Art-Making and Architecture. 30 th
Latin
American Studies Association Meeting, San Francisco, May 23-26
2011
-“Olmec Heads, Cold Wars, Global Journeys: Mexico at the 1964-65 New York World’s
Fair.” College Art Association Meeting, New York, February 12.
2010
-“Architect-politician: The work of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez.” Society of Architectural
Historians 63 rd
Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 23.
2009
-“After Tlatelolco: Architecture and ideology at the 1968 Mexican Olympics.” Buell
Dissertation Colloquium, Columbia University, April 18.
2008
-“The architecture of a ‘Peaceful Revolution’: Fernando Belaúnde, Planning and politics
in mid-twentieth century Peru.” Forum on Forms of Seeing, Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences, NYU, May 9.
2007
-With Carolyn Yerkes. ‘Housing Exhibitions at MoMA in the 1930s.’ The Museum of
Modern Art, New York, May 4.
-“The demand for visual authority: Fernando de Szyszlo and the problem of Peruanidad.”
The Frick Symposium, Institute of Fine Arts and The Frick Collection, New York, April
20.
-“Out of the burial chambers: Tomb looting as a cultural system.” Heist Symposium,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 24.
2006
-“Buscando América: The urban politics of salsa music.” 36 th
Annual Popular Culture
Association Conference, Atlanta, April 12.
Administration and Service
2011-present
-Admissions committee member, Janklow Arts Leadership program, Syracuse
University
Curatorial experience
2008 (February-July)
Assistant to artist Gabriel Orozco.
Exhibition: Gabriel Orozco (2009) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
2005 (August-October)
Assistant to Curator, Department of Education, Grey Art Gallery, NYU
2004-2005
Docent, Education Department, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston.
2004 (June-December)
Intern, Department of Modern Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Artwork
-Architectural Photography (2002-present). Photographs included in The
Phaidon Atlas of 20 th
Century World Architecture (London: Phaidon, 2012).
Languages
English, Spanish, French (native speaker, fluency, and writing proficiency). Italian,
German, Portuguese, Catalan (reading knowledge).
Professional Associations
College Art Association
Society of Architectural Historians