Past Recipients of the ALAA Graduate Student Travel Award

2025

Leonardo Santamaría Montero, Cornell

Catalina Cherñavvsky Sequeira, University of Texas at Austin

2024

Eric Mazariegos, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University 

Maria Beatriz Carrión, PhD Candidate in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center

2023

Marisol Villela Balderama received the $500 graduate student travel award to attend CAA. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, where she works with Jennifer Josten. Her dissertation bridges Latin American and East Asian art history, docusing on Chilean artist José Venturelli (1924-1988), whose artistic exchanges uncover a little-known transpacific network that allowed artists and intellectuals from the Americas, Asia, and socialist Europe to found mutual recourse in their approaches to modern revolutionary art and to learn from each other’s artistic traditions. During her time in NYC, she will also conduct research at Brooklyn’s Asia Art Archive in America.

Hayley Woodward received the $500 graduate student travel award to attend CAA. She is currently a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library (DO) and a Ph.D. candidate in Art History and Latin American Studies at Tulane University where Elizabeth Boone is her primary advisor. She is a specialist in the visual cultures bridging Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and colonial New Spain, with a primary concentration in Indigenous Nahua painted manuscripts, cartographies, and writing systems. Her scholarly interests also expand broadly to questions of artistic practice and materiality. At CAA, she is co-chairing a panel entitled “Ecological Art Histories of Indigenous Latin America.” While in New York, she also will visit the National Museum of the American Indian to view drawings on āmatl paper created by contemporary Nahua artists.