Phd Candidate headed to the UK to Present her Research

Mariana Guzman, PhD student in Art History Visual Studies, is taking a trip to present her research at an international medieval conference in Leeds, United Kingdom, this coming summer.

“For Leeds, I have been accepted to participate in the session Hidden Voices: Women in the Archive, to discuss a sixteenth century Carta Ejecutoria de Hidalguía for Doña Guiomar de Alarcón Ulloa, based on research I conducted on an unpublished manuscript currently held on loan at Ellis Library’s Special Collections (the Letter of confirmation of nobility for the Lady Guiomar de Alacon Ulloa, neighbor of Jaen).“

Guzman is also attending another conference in the spring semester, the annual Midwest Art History Society (MAHS) that will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “For MAHS I will present a chapter of my doctoral dissertation. The current title is: “Otherness” and Diversity in the Female Bodies of the Cantigas de Santa María (Códice Rico): an intersectional study of gender. [I am interested in the intersections of gender, race, religion, social status and ability in the depictions of female bodies, as well as in the ways in which they can help us to further understand relations of power and the construction of a worldview with designated roles for different types of people and representations of alterity.]” Guzman, along with 6 other Art History graduate students and one undergraduate student, will be attending MAHS in Spring 2026.