Amy Buono
Assistant Professor
Art, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Expertise: Visual and Material Cultures of Colonial Latin America and the Atlantic World; Early Modern Art in a Global Context; Art and Anthropology; History and Theory of Museums
Office Hours: Moulton Hall 217A
Phone: (714) 289-3569
Email: buono@chapman.edu
- Education:
- The University of New Mexico, Bachelor of Arts
University of California, Santa Barbara, Master of Arts
University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D.
Biography
Amy Buono is a specialist in the visual and material cultures of colonial Latin America
and the Atlantic world, with particular focus on Brazil. Among her research and teaching
interests are: Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultural practices in a colonial context;
museum history and theory, with a focus on tangible and intangible heritage studies;
and the ethnopolitics of material culture. Deeply interdisciplinary, her research
intersects with science studies, anthropology, museum studies, and art-historical
historiography and methodology. Her awards include fellowships from Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays,
the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC-IDRF), the Center for the Advanced Study
in the Visual Arts (CASVA), the Centro Incontri Umani Ascona, the John Carter Brown
Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science in Berlin (MPIWG), and the Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo e Pesquisa
do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ).
Amy has published on such topics as Indigenous featherworking and ritual culture in Brazil; Tupi crafts of color; images of the brazilwood trade in sixteenth-century Rouen; temporality in colonial Brazilian material culture; early modern natural history and pharmacology texts as (art)historical sources; and the visual and material politics of race in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brazil. Amy’s books include the co-edited volume (with Sven Dupré), A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance (Bloomsbury Press, 2021) and Tupinambá Feathercraft in the Brazilian Atlantic (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming). Her current research project, Deviant Objects and Dangerous Spaces of the Early Modern Atlantic, explores facets and fragments of Brazil's colonial history through the lens of its contested spaces.
Amy previously taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Rio de Janeiro State University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as for the Getty Foundation’s “Connecting Art Histories” program at the State University in Campinas, Brazil. Amy serves on the Executive Board of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC).
Amy has published on such topics as Indigenous featherworking and ritual culture in Brazil; Tupi crafts of color; images of the brazilwood trade in sixteenth-century Rouen; temporality in colonial Brazilian material culture; early modern natural history and pharmacology texts as (art)historical sources; and the visual and material politics of race in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brazil. Amy’s books include the co-edited volume (with Sven Dupré), A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance (Bloomsbury Press, 2021) and Tupinambá Feathercraft in the Brazilian Atlantic (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming). Her current research project, Deviant Objects and Dangerous Spaces of the Early Modern Atlantic, explores facets and fragments of Brazil's colonial history through the lens of its contested spaces.
Amy previously taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Rio de Janeiro State University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as for the Getty Foundation’s “Connecting Art Histories” program at the State University in Campinas, Brazil. Amy serves on the Executive Board of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC).
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- “Heraclitus and Diogenes in Raphael’s School of Athens,” Online response to Lisa Pon in Our Stories/Day 3, DECAMERONline, USC Dornsife, May 1, 2020.