Curriculum Vitae
Durham University, PhD History of Art and Architecture, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Graduate Student
EMAIL: YEIDYROSA@GMAIL.COM
YEIDY LUZ ROSA ORTIZ
DURHAM UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
2020- 2025 Faculty of Arts and Humanities, School of Modern
Languages and Cultures, Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin
American Art
PhD History of Art and Architecture
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Dissertation Title: “(Un)Making Guaman Poma’s Drawings: Image
as Process in El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno, 1615”
Supervisors: Dr. Yarí Pérez Marín and Dr. Laura León Llerena
Field of Study: Early Modern Transatlantic Visual Culture and
Manuscript Studies
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Recipient of the Durham Doctoral Studentship 2020-23
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2021 ARTES Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture
Group-Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH)
Travel Scholarship for Archival Research
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2022 Rare Book School at the University of Virginia
Directors’ Scholarship
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
2019- 2020 School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies,
Postgraduate Taught Programme in Social History of Art
MA Social History of Art, with Distinction
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Dissertation Title: “Hidden and Revealed: Mudejar-Christian
Relations, Women’s Power and Family Feuds Through a Recently
Uncovered Mural of the Lamentation in the Cathedral of
Albarracín, Teruel, Aragon, Spain, XV Century”
Supervisor: Dr. Eva Frojmovic
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Recipient of the University of Leeds 2019 Tetley & Lupton
Scholarship (Full Overseas Academic Fees)
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2002- 2005 NYU Graduate School of Arts & Science, John W. Draper
Interdisciplinary MA Program in the Humanities and Social
Thought
MA Humanities and Social Thought, magna cum laude
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Interdisciplinary
studies
in Humanities, Anthropology,
Ethnographic Film Studies, Education, Latin American and
Caribbean Studies and Political Science. Courses in History and
Theory of Ethnographic and Anthropological Film, Human Rights
and Representation (Film and Photography), Human Rights in
Latin America and the Caribbean, Government and Politics in
Latin America, and Social Movements and Media in Latin America.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2003 Columbia University, Teachers College, Center for International and
Transcultural Studies, conducted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
GPA 4.0
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Survey of community arts and culture programs that address
human rights. Seminars held at the International Human Rights
Law Center at Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro.
Studies in children’s human rights, social, cultural and economic
human rights, Indigenous rights, the landless workers movement
MST, AIDS/HIV prevention and harm reduction, women’s human
rights, the democratization of information, favela economies,
disarmament, and citizenship.
THE GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (CUNY), NYC
2003
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Department of Continuing Education
Brazilian & Iberian Portuguese
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS, OHIO, USA
1998 - 2001 College of Arts, Department of History of Art
BA History of Art, magna cum laude
▪ Studies in Ancient Art and Archaeology, Medieval and Renaissance
Art and Architecture, Modern Art and Architecture, Film Studies,
and Anthropology. Study abroad programs in Turkey and China.
KOÇ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
2000 - 2001 College of Arts and Sciences
Vehbi Koç Scholar Award for Academic Excellence, GPA 4.0
▪ Studies in Socio-cultural Anthropology, Film Studies, and Art
History. Independent research conducted at Çatal Höyük, Ephesus,
Side, Aphrodisias, Pergue, Bergama, Troy, Pamukkale, Telmessos,
Cappadocia, and Istanbul. OIE Scholarship recipient.
OHIO UNIVERSITY, SEMESTER IN CHINA, SHANGHAI, BEIJING, CHINA
Summer 2001 College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art History
Dean’s List, GPA 4.0
▪ Studies in Ancient Chinese Art, Buddhist Art, Art of the Cultural
Revolution, Modern Chinese Art, Chinese Film, and Chinese
Culture. Independent study conducted in Shanghai, Beijing,
Hangzhou, Wuxi, and Suzhou. OIE Scholarship recipient.
SUMMER POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS
RARE BOOK SCHOOL, TULANE UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LA
2022 Spanish American Textualities to c.1820, The Latin American Library
at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, 30 hours
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History of textualities in Spanish-speaking America in the
precolonial and colonial eras (c.300 B.C.–c.1820 A.D.)
LATIN & PALAEOGRAPHY SCHOOL, DURHAM UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, UK
2021 Durham University Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
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Reading, transcribing and editing Latin texts (c. AD 300- AD
1500), codicology and manuscript cataloging.
TEPOZTLÁN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS,
TEPOZTLÁN, MORELOS, MÉXICO
2017 Weeklong graduate institute on Colonialisms: Legacies and Futures,
Performing the archive (embodiment and voice in the archive)
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Presentation of paper “El lenguaje visual de Guaman Poma: Los
dibujos de Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, 1615” in the theoretical
session titled The Edge of the Archive: Organic Intellectuals and Indigenous
Knowledge. Moderator of the theoretical session titled The Production
of Archives and Decolonial Knowledge.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF AL-ANDALUS, INTENSIVE SUMMER COURSE, CASA
ÁRABE, CÓRDOBA, SPAIN
2016 Intensive summer course: Al-Andalus, problems and perspectives (45
graduate credit hours), Sponsored by the European Research Council and
the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC
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Graduate seminar on art, archaeology and
architecture of medieval Islamicate Iberia, including
Portugal, North Africa, and Spain. Field work carried out at
the Mosque of Córdoba and Madinat al-Zahra.
LONDON INTERNATIONAL PALAEOGRAPHY SUMMER SCHOOL AND LONDON
RARE BOOKS SCHOOL, SENATE HOUSE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM
2015 SSchool of Advanced Studies, Institute of English Studies,
Senate House Library, British Library, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association (ABA) and the Bibliographical
Society Bursary recipient.
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Greek Palaeography I, Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts,
Liturgical and Devotional Manuscripts, Medieval and
Renaissance Manuscript Folio Design, The Book in the
Ancient World (Cuneiform, Papyrus, Reconstruction of
Roman Libraries, and Illuminated Manuscripts), and Provenance
of Rare Books (Diplomatics, Codicology and Heraldry).
LANGUAGES
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Native English speaker
Native Spanish speaker
Fluent in Brazilian and Iberian Portuguese (CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, 2003)
EMPLOYMENT
Epiphany Term 2022-2023
Postgraduate Teaching in History of Art and Hispanic Studies
Durham University, UK
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Elvet Riverside, New Elvet
Durham, DH1 3JT, United Kingdom
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Design and teaching of the Art and Epistemic Violence in Early Modern Spanish Speaking
America module. Lectures and seminars covered Transculturation in Art: Enconchados,
plumería, Hispano-Philippine ivories, Nasca ceramics, painting in Quito, Mudéjar-style
artesonados, transregional viceregal silverwork, and cochineal.
October 2015- July 2019
Adjunct Professor in the History of Art Undergraduate Program
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Avenida Universidad
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00925
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Professor of the following rotating undergraduate courses (two per semester): Arts of China,
Arts of Japan, Arts of India I & II, Ancient Near Eastern Art and Architecture, Art and
Gender, History of Western Art I, and Seminar on Women in the Art of the Ancient World.
August 2013- May 2019
Adjunct Professor of History of Art
School of Visual Arts and Design of Puerto Rico
Antiguo Hospital Nuestra Señora de la Concepción
Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
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University professor of four survey courses per semester on the History of Western Art I
(Ancient through Renaissance) and the History of Western Art II (Renaissance through
Post-Impressionism).
August 2008- July 2010
Adjunct Professor of History of Art
Coordinator of the Undergraduate Visual Arts Program
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador- PUCE
Avenida 12 de Octubre y Patria
Quito – Pichincha – Ecuador
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Professor of Art History, Art Theory, and Semiotics in the Faculty of Architecture, Design,
and Art and the Department of Continuing Education. As Coordinator of the
Undergraduate Visual Arts Program, I was responsible for all academic matters concerning
the Visual Arts Program, its administration, its core curriculum and course offerings, its
professors and its students. Administrative duties also included creating and managing
budgets, grant proposal writing, planning special events, exhibits, and fieldwork, as well as
completing all evaluations and reports regarding the department, student body and faculty.
August 2007- July 2010
Coordinator of youth media projects in Ecuador and Colombia
Producer of Children and Youth Traveling Film Festival
(Urban-marginalized communities in Quito and Ecuador/Colombia
border regions)
Chulpicine Foundation
Alpallana E6-114 y Whymper
Quito – Pichincha – Ecuador
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Promoting the use of new technologies among children and youth, we designed and
coordinated youth media projects in marginalized urban areas of Quito and in Ecuador’s
Amazonian border region with Colombia. From the writing of the project and its funding
proposal, to the staffing and execution of the project and final expense reports, I was
responsible for overseeing the project from beginning to end. For three consecutive years,
we produced a Children and Youth Traveling Film Festival that took global youth
programming to communities with no access to cultural activities. Through a series of
workshops, the communities continue to produce the Festival as a yearly event.
February 2004- March 2006
Full-time Social Educator at Human Rights NGO
Núcleo Comunitário Vicente de Carvalho- Associação São Martinho
Rua Soldado Bernardino da Silva, Vicente de Carvalho
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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Full-time social educator at drop-in shelter, educational and community arts center for
crianças da/na rua, “street children” or children who live and/or work on the streets and
public spaces of Rio de Janeiro or live in combat zones within the favela community of
Morro do Juramento.
PUBLICATIONS
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Rosa, Yeidy. “‘Cosas desta tierra’: An Indigenous Silversmith from Mexico in Peru, ca. 1550”,
Source: Notes in the History of Art, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, New
York, Volume 42, Number 2, Winter 2023.
Rosa Ortiz, Yeidy Luz. ‘José Rivafrecha y Jordán’, Diccionario Biográfico Español de la Real
Academia de la Historia (Royal Academy of History), Madrid, Spain, December 2012.
Rosa Ortiz, Yeidy Luz. ‘Hombre en el cruce de caminos: Diego Rivera’, ANACONDA
Cultura y Arte, Quito, August 2010: ISSN 13903276
Rosa Ortiz, Yeidy Luz. ‘El Pensador de Rodin’, ANACONDA Cultura y Arte, Quito, June
2010: ISSN 13903276
Rosa Ortiz, Yeidy Luz. ‘La Gran Odalisca de Ingres’, ANACONDA Cultura y Arte, Quito,
May 2010: ISSN 13903276
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Rosa Ortiz, Yeidy Luz. ‘Arte, Salud, Higiene y las Políticas de Identidad Nacional: Afiches,
Videos y Campañas Visuales para la Salud Pública del Siglo XX’, Pan American Health
Organization and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Diálogo Académico 2009.
Rosa, Yeidy. ‘Hacia una pedagogía multimedios: El caso de Pintacuentos en Chile’, Lo
Audiovisual y la Niñez Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), La
Habana, and UNICEF 2008: ISBN 978-959-7139-65-2
CONFERENCES
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'Recentering Indigenous Histories of Art and the Book: Lessons from Guaman Poma',
Indigenous Studies Discussion Group Research Network Conference, University of
Cambridge, Indigenous Studies in the United Kingdom & Europe: Pasts, Presents and
Futures,
22-23
September
2022.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bCq6ieuwoA&list=PLSXlH2J-omiTaMbiWV7EJq
ML_Pug1eLG7&index=14>
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‘Lo que trajo el barco: Mapping Early Modern Art in Latin America’, Crossing Borders,
Contesting Boundaries II, Durham University's 15th Annual Medieval and Early Modern
Students
Association
Conference,
19-21
July,
2021.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRsxT6O7F5U>
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‘(Un)Making Guaman Poma’s Drawings’, New Themes and Ideas in Studies of Iberian and
Latin American Art and Visual Culture, Durham University and Edinburgh College of Art,
Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art, 5-6 July 2021 (Presenter and
Co-organising Committee). <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT1mkldJypU>
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‘Display and Displacement in Medieval Art and Architecture’, The Courtauld Institute of
Art, 18 February 2021, Hidden and Revealed: Jewish-Muslim-Christian Relations, Women’s
Power and Family Feuds Through a Recently Uncovered Mural of the Lamentation in the
Cathedral
of
Albarracín,
Teruel,
Aragon,
Spain,
XV
Century.
<https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/events/cfp-display-and-displacement-in-medieval-art-an
d-architecture/>
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‘Remarkable women’: Female patronage of religious institutions, 1300-1550, The Courtauld
Institute of Art, 29 January 2021, Hidden and Revealed: Women’s Power, Family Feuds and
Jewish-Muslim-Christian Relations Through a Recently Uncovered Mural of the Lamentation in the
Cathedral of Albarracín, Teruel, Aragon, Spain, XV Century.
<https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/cfp-remarkable-women-female-patronage-of-religious-instit
utions-1300-1550>
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"Use of Space and Non-Combative Populations of the Antiguo Hospital Nuestra Señora de
la Concepción, El Grande, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1774-1886", Space and the Hospital: 13th
International Network for the History of Hospitals Conference, 26-28 May 2021, Lisbon.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prxspFrSK-o>
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Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Morelos, México,
July 2017, ‘El lenguaje visual de Guaman Poma: Los dibujos de Nueva Corónica y Buen
Gobierno, 1615’ in the theoretical session The Edge of the Archive: Organic Intellectuals and
Indigenous Knowledge.
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‘El lenguaje visual de Guaman Poma’, Programa de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Puerto
Rico, 17 Marzo 2017.
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‘La mujer en el arte de Mesopotamia’, Programa de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Puerto
Rico, 28 October 2015.
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‘Cine y conversa sobre antimilitarismo en Puerto Rico’, La Vorágine, Santander, España, 30
July 2014.
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‘Miradas desde la geografía, arquitectura, y territorio hacia la salud pública’, Instituto de
Salud Pública de la Facultad de Medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador y
la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Quito, 2009, Arte, salud, higiene, y las políticas de
identidad nacional: afiches, videos, y campañas visuales, para la salud pública del siglo XX.
<https://www.flacso.edu.ec/biblio/shared/biblio_view.php?bibid=125771&tab=opac>
<https://biblioteca.uasb.edu.ec/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=15832>
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‘Antimilitarismo y videoarte’, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, July 2006.
COMMUNITY-BASED & SOCIAL JUSTICE WORK
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Durham Foodbank, Durham, UK, 2021-Present.
Amnesty International, Puerto Rico Chapter, Gender Committee, 2013-2016.
Shelter for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Centro de Acogida de Refugiados y AsiladosCAR), Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain, 2012-2013.
● Committee for the Defense of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants in Spain (Comité
de Defensa a los Refugiados, Asilados e Inmigrantes en el Estado Español- COMRADE)
Madrid, Spain, 2012-2013.
● Co-Founder, Zapallo Verde; Agroecological Women’s Coop, Quito, Ecuador, 2007-2009.
● Women’s prison El Inca; Tutor for children living in the prison with their mothers, Quito,
Ecuador, 2007-2008.
● Center for Working Children (Centro del Muchacho Trabajador); Special Education tutor,
Literacy Program, Quito, Ecuador, 2007.
● War Resisters League (NYC) and War Resisters' International (London), Anti-war/Peace and
Justice work through Revolutionary Non-violence and Civil Disobedience, 2003-2010.
● 2002-2006 Margaret Mead Ethnographic, Anthropological and Documentary Film and
Video Festival; American Museum of Natural History, NYC, 2002-2006.