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 and architecture and 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 and its associated political interactions during the sixteenth and seventeenth century, colonial and post-colonial visual strategies, the Habsburg empire and museum studies. He has traveled extensively throughout the American and European sphere and is an experienced Tufts Travel-Learn host.
Dr. Guzmán’s talks will focus on the cultural and material trade across the Adriatic and the visual manifestation of consequential material, cultural, economic, and political exchanges that brought the Americas to the Old World and the Old World to the New during the Fifteen through Seventeenth century.