Education

B.A. Yale; Ph.D. Yale.

Area of Specialization

Colonial Latin America

Courses Taught

Latin American Art; Pre-Columbian Art; Aztec Art; Colonial Cities; Native American Art and Art History Introduction

Biography

Professor Mundy specializes in Latin American art of the colonial period (16th through 18th centuries). Her book, The Mapping of New Spain was awarded the Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography in 1996. A current project, Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820, can be seen online at www.smith.edu/vistas. Research interests center on indigenous art created in the Spanish colony, especially in New Spain, cartography in the early modern period, and the role of collections in pre-Columbian art history.

Selected Publications

• The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Paperback edition, 2000.
• “Mesoamerican Cartography." The History of Cartography, vol. 2. 3. David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis, Co-editors. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 183-256. Volume was winner of the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize for 1999.
• “Mapping the Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg map of Tenochtitlan, Its Sources and Meanings.” Imago Mundi, vol. 50 (1998), pp. 1-22.
• "Of Copies, Casts and Codices: Mexico on Display in 1892." Co-authored with Dana Leibsohn. RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, vol. 29/30 (Spring/Autumn 1996), pp. 326-43.