Eulogio Guzmán is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Visual and Material Studies Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. He earned a B.Arch. from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, has an M.A. in Latin American Studies in the fields of anthropology, history, and art history from the University of California, Los Angeles as well as a Ph.D. in art history from UCLA specializing in Mexica sculpture, architecture and the ways visual and material culture is used for political ends. In his graduate studies, he minored in Islamic Art.
His interests include Pre-Columbian and Colonial architecture and urbanism, global trade of material goods across the Pacific, Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, the politics of gift exchange during the sixteenth and seventeenth century; colonial and post-colonial visual strategies; the Mexica, Inka, and Habsburg empires; and museum studies. He has traveled extensively throughout the American and European sphere and is an experienced Tufts Travel-Learn host. His lectures will focus on the range of colonial experiences and consequences unleashed by the Spanish conquest.