Eloise Quiñones Keber is Professor Emeritus of Art History at

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and

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, where she specializes in Pre-Columbian and early colonial

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n art. She earned her

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from

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in 1984.

Writings/Publications

She published a scholarly edition of the important Aztec pictorial

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, with commentary,''Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript''. Austin: University of Texas Press 1995 which received the 1996 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for humanistic studies from the

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. She is also co-author with H.B. Nicholson of ''Art of Aztec Mexico'' (National Gallery of Art, 1983). She has edited ''Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather'' (Labyrinthos, 2000), ''Chipping Away on Earth'' (Labyrinthos, 1994), and co-edited with H.B. Nicholson ''Mixteca Puebla'' (Labyrinthos, 1994) and ''The Work of Bernardino de Sahagún: Pioneer Ethnographer of 16th-Century Aztec Mexico'' (University of Texas Press, 1988) with J. Jorge Klor de Alva and H.B. Nicholson.

Honours

She received the Baruch College Presidential Excellence Award in 1996, and was a recipient of fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies,

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, and the American Philosophical Society. She received the 1996 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in humanistic studies from the

for ''Codex Telleriano Remensis'' and the 1996 Distinguished Scholarship Award from

, where she also teaches.

Research

Prof. Quiñones-Keber’s research interests center primarily on Mesoamerican manuscripts, Aztec art before and after the Spanish conquest, and issues surrounding the encounter between indigenous and European traditions in the Americas. She is currently working on a book on “reinventing Aztec art”, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998-1999.

References

External links

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