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Ellen Taylor Baird Department of Art History (M/C 201) (312) 996-3342 | fax (312) 413-2460 Education
Area of SpecializationLatin American Art History (Pre-Columbian through Colonial) Professional EmploymentUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of New Mexico
Tulane University
University of Southern Colorado
Grants AwardedResearch (since 1984)
Administrative
PublicationsBook1993 The Drawings of Sahagún's Primeros Memoriales: Structure and Style. University of Oklahoma Press. Articles2005 "The Reordering of Space in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: Some Implications of the Grid." In Painted Books and Indigenous Knowledge in Mesoamerica: Manuscript Studies in Honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith, pp. 289-300, Elizabeth H. Boone, ed., Middle American Research Institute monograph series, vol. 69. New Orleans: Tulane University. 2005 “The Latin American City.” In Scribner’s New Dictionary of the History of Ideas., vol. 1, pp. 351-352, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, editor in chief. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 2003 "Sahagún and the Representation of History." In Sahagun at 500: Essays on the Quincentenary of the Birth of Fr. Bernardino de Sahagun, OFM, pp. 117-136. Berkeley, CA: Academy of American Franciscan History. 1995 "Adaptation and Accommodation: The Transformation of the Pictorial Text in Sahagún's 16th Century Mexican Manuscripts." Phoebus 7:36-51. (Native Artists and Patrons in Colonial Latin America, Emily Umberger and Tom Cummins, eds.; Arizona State University, Tempe, 1995). 1995 "Estrellas y guerra en Cacaxtla." In Antología de Cacaxtla: vol. II, pp. 140-190, Ángel García Cook and Beatriz Leonor Merino Carrión, compilers; Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. Spanish translation of "Stars and Wars at Cacaxtla," 1989. 1989 "Stars and War at Cacaxtla." In Mesoamerica after the Decline of Teotihuacan, 700-900 A.D: pp. 105-122, Richard Diehl and Janet C. Berlo, eds.; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 1989. 1988 "The Artists of Sahagún's Primeros Memoriales: A Question of Identity." In The Life and Work of Bernardino de Sahagún: Pioneer Ethnographer of Sixteenth-Century Aztec Mexico: 1988 "Sahagún's Primeros Memoriales and Codex Florentino: European Elements in the Illustrations." In Smoke and Mist: Mesoamerican Studies in Memory of Thelma Sullivan: pp. 15-40, Kathryn Josserand and Karen Dakin, eds.; British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, 1988. 1987 "Sahagún's Codex Florentino: The Enigmatic A." Ethnohistory. (1987) 34:288-306. 1985 "The Use of Naturalistic and Symbolic Color at Tula." In Painted Architecture and Polychrome Monumental Sculpture in Mesoamerica: pp. 115-144, Elizabeth Hill Boone, ed.; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 1985. 1983 "Text and Image in Sahagún's Primeros Memoriales." In Text and Image in Pre-Columbian Art: Essays on the Interrelationship of the Verbal and Visual Arts: pp. 155-179, J.C. Berlo, ed.; British Archaeological Reports, 1983. In Progress6 Articles on Codex Florentino (Bernardino de Sahagún), text completed; Primeros Memoriales (Bernardino de Sahagún); Historia de las Indias de Nueva España y Islas de Tierra Firma (Códice Dúran; Diego Durán); Codex Ramírez (Juan de Tovar); Historia de la benida de los Yndios apoblar a México (Juan de Tovar); and Relación de la Grana Cochinilla (Gonzalo Gómez de Cervantes). To be published in Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Ethnohistorical Sources, ed. Michel Oudijk and Maria Castañeda de la Paz (Austin: University of Texas Press). (In preparation.) Book Reviews2008 Review essay of Elizabeth Hill Boone, Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate (Austin:University of Texas Press, 2007). Art Bulletin vol. xc, no. 4 (2008), pp. 649-652. 2003 Online review of Samuel Y. Edgerton and Jorge Pérez de Lara, Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artists in Colonial Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001). CAA.Reviews, August 5, 2003. Exhibit Curated2006 “The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico.” Newberry Library, Chicago, September 30, 2006 through January 20, 2007. Co-curated with Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera. Online Digital Exhibit“The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico.” Newberry Library, Chicago. Co-curated with Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera. http://www.newberry.org/aztecexhibit/index_en.html Scholarly Papers and Workshops Presented2007 “Colonial Pictorial Texts.” “European and New World Forms of Knowledge in Colonial Spanish America, c. 1520-1800.” Mellon-funded residential workshop, joint project between the Newberry Library and the University of Warwick, UK, July 23-August 3, 2007. 2007 “The Virgin of Guadalupe.” “European and New World Forms of Knowledge in Colonial Spanish America, c. 1520-1800.” Mellon-funded residential workshop, joint project between the Newberry Library and the University of Warwick, UK, July 23-August 3, 2007. 2006 “Painting Indigenous History, Memory, and Identity in Colonial Mexico.” Planning meeting for “European and New World Forms of Knowledge in Colonial Spanish America c. 1520-1800,” workshop sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to be held at the Newberry Library (summer 2007) in conjunction with the University of Warwick, U.K. 2002 “Guánica Central : Constructing Colonialism.” Caribbean Studies Association; Nassau, Bahamas. 2002 “Guánica Central : A Caribbean Company Town.” Northeastern Illinois University International Conference on the Literatures and Cultures of the Caribbean: Where Choice Is Born: Caribbean Voices & Visions; Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. 1999 "Sahagún and the Representation of History." Symposium in Honor of the Quincentennial Anniversary of the Birth of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún; Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. 1998 "The Reordering of Space in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: Some Implications of the Grid." Tulane University Symposium in Honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith; New Orleans, LA. 1991 “The Illusion of Space and the Perception of History in Sahagún's Codex Florentino." International Congress of Americanists; New Orleans, LA. 1987 "Adaptation and Accommodation: The Transformation of the Pictorial Text in Sahagún's 16th Century Mexican Manuscripts." 16th Century Studies Meeting; Tempe, AZ. 1987 "The Death of the Sun: The Symbolic Orientation of Pyramid B, Tula, Hidalgo." Society of Architectural Historians; San Francisco, CA. 1987 "Blood and Bow Ties at Cacaxtla." College Art Association; Boston, MA. 1986 "Dressed to Kill: The Cacaxtla Warriors." Society for American Archaeology; New Orleans, LA. 1985 "Stars and War at Cacaxtla." Society for American Archaeology; Denver, CO. 1983 "The Processional Figures at Tula, Hidalgo." American Society for Ethnohistory; Albuquerque, NM. 1981 "The Use of Naturalistic and Symbolic Color at Tula." Symposium on Painted Architecture and Polychrome Monumental Sculpture in Mesoamerica. Dumbarton Oaks; Washington, D.C.. 1981 "Pyramid B, Tula: A Re-evaluation of the Iconography." American Society for Ethnohistory; Colorado Springs, CO. Courses TaughtUniversity of Illinois at Chicago (1998-present):
Newberry Library (spring 2006):
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees (chair)Amy Galpin, Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago (in progress), “Fray Diego Valadés, Rhetorica Christiana, the Illustrations” Clare Kunny, Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago (in progress), “Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and Emperor Charles V: Aesthetic Interchange between Spain and Mexico” Ph.D. Dissertation Committees (member/reader)Catherine Burdick, Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago (in progress), “Text and Image in Classic Maya Sculpture” Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Art History, Yale University, Ph.D. 2004, “Images of the Beginning: The Painted Story of the Conquest in Book XII of the Florentine Codex” M.A. Thesis Committees (member/reader)Rebecca Beachy, Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, MA 2009, “Looking at Columbine” Valerie Rangel, Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago MA 2009, “Archigram: Tailoring the Future” Candice Weber, Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago (in progress), “Indian Logic: Postcolonialism, Contemporary Native American Art, and the Work of James Luna” Kristina Dziedzic Wright, Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, MA 2005, “”Ethnic Identities and Cultural Commoditization in the Jua Kali Art World of Lamu, Kenya” Morgan Mills, Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, MA 2004, “Architecture of Identity: Nationalism in Meiji Period Japan (1868-1912)” Elizabeth D. Olton, Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, MA 1999, “The Murals from Tulum Structures 5 and 16: Portrait of late Post-Classic Maya Cosmology” Professional OrganizationsAssociation for Latin American Art AdministrativeAmerican Association for Higher Education, 1990-97 Board Memberships
Professional serviceAccreditation and academic program reviews
Co-chair and co-organizer of scholarly sessions
Competition juror
Conferences organized
Discussant
Educational Study Tour
Grant referee
Moderator
Museum Consultant
Publication referee
Public Lectures and Workshops (since 1980)“The Will of Don Diego Damián: An Aztec (Nahua) Family in Colonial Mexico, 1576.” Newberry Library, Chicago. January and April 2009. “Juliana Tlaco vs Pedronilla Francisca Tenuch: A Nahua Family Contests a Will.” Aztecs/Nahua/Mexicans: Living Documents Workshop. Newberry Library, Chicago. October2007. “Maps in Colonial Mexico.” Chicago Teachers as Scholars Program, Newberry Library, Chicago. Two day lecture/workshop co-taught with Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera. December, 2006. “The Aztecs: Writing Without Words.” The Newberry Teachers’ Consortium, Newberry Library, Chicago. Half-day lecture/workshop. November, 2006; December 2006. "The Power of the Past and Dreams of the Future: Archaeology and Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Mexico." The Art Institute of Chicago, October, 2002; Lake Forest College, November, 2002. “Mesoamerica: Still Mysterious.” Workshop for Latin American Studies faculty, Lake Forest College, February 1999. "The Power of the Past and Dreams of the Future: Nineteenth Century Mexico." Newberry Library and Harold Washington Library, Chicago, May 1996. "Academic Innovations: UIC's Great Cities Initiative." Women in Planning and Development, Chicago, February 27, 1995. "Painted Walls of Ancient Mexico: Teotihuacan, Bonampak, Cacaxtla." The Art Institute of Chicago, March 15, 1994 "Painted Walls of Ancient Mexico: Teotihuacan, Bonampak, Cacaxtla." Arquitectos (organization of Latino architects, Chicago), March 31, 1994. "The Drawings of Sahagún's Sixteenth-Century Manuscripts: A Colonial View of Preconquest Mexico." Chicago Latin American Colloquium (University of Chicago, Center for Latin American Studies), February 3, 1994. "The Black and the Red: The Book in Ancient Mexico." The Art Institute of Chicago, July 1993 (lecture/workshop). "Space and the Perception of History in Colonial Mexico." The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1993. "Space, Time, and the Perception of History: Sixteenth Century Mexico." Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, November 1992. "Art History and Auto Mechanics." Community College Conference, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 1987. "Classic Maya Treasures." University of Nebraska-Lincoln, August 1986. "`Reading' Art: Influences and Connections." Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, February 1981. numerous talks to university students, prospective students, scholarship students, alumni, professional and civic organizations, etc. Committee and administrative positions
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