Faculty news: Elizabeth Boone

Elizabeth Boone, professor of art history and Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art, lectured on "Spatial Grammars: The Union of Art and Writing in the Painted Books of Aztec Mexico" and led a workshop on "Reading the Past and the Future in the Painted Books of Aztec Mexico" as part of the Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors lecture series, January 25-26, 2018. She was a discussant in the Dumbarton Oaks workshop "Future Directions in Pre-Columbian Studies" in Bogotá, March 22-23, 2018.

An expert in the Precolumbian and early colonial art of Latin America, with an emphasis on Mexico, Boone is the former Director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. Professor Boone has earned numerous honors and fellowships, including the Order of the Aztec Eagle, awarded by the Mexican government in 1990. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia.