Spain's Andalusia: A One-Week Stay in Antequera

Vivien Green Fryd is professor emerita in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Vanderbilt University and the author of numerous books. Along with Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the U.S. Capitol, 1815-1860, she published Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper  and Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970. In 2012, she was the Terra Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Berlin’s Freie Universität. There, she began research for another book about her uncle who left Germany because of the Holocaust and became a photojournalist: Henry Ries’ Photographs of Iconic Berlin Monuments and Sites 1946-2000. Vivien has taught courses on western art history from the Renaissance to the present, impressionism, 19th- and 20th-century European art, and American art from the colonial period to the present.

Anna Kathryn Kendrick is a Clinical Associate Professor of Literature and Director of Global Awards at NYU Shanghai.  Her first book, Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Spain (Cambridge 2020) was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for an outstanding work in Spanish and Latin American studies by the Modern Language Association. Her second book project, Rock, Fossil, Bone: Human Time and Deep History in Twentieth-Century Spain, centers on prehistoric and environmental echoes in modern Spanish literature and visual art, most recently supported by a fellowship at Germany's Hanse Institute of Advanced Studies. Her writings, including on the works of poets Federico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Rafael Alberti, Carmen Conde and Clara Janés, have been published in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, the Modern Language Review and Global Studies of Childhood. She holds an A.B. in Modern European History and Literature from Harvard University and an MPhil and a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and Culture from Cambridge University, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.

Dr. Roger Martínez-Dávila is a specialist in medieval and Renaissance Europe who has dedicated his life to better understanding intercultural and interreligious relations. In particular, he tracks the lives of religious and cultural minorities in Iberia – such as Sephardic Jews and Muslims or resilient communities like the Basque. 

Roger has visited every province of Spain over his 20-year career, and his travel and life abroad reflect his global perspective of the Middle Ages, drawing together the mixed Mediterranean and Gothic cultures of Spain, Portugal, Italy, and North Africa, as well as the Frankish and Germanic peoples of France and the Low Countries. He is also researching how Scandinavia, the Islamic Levant, and Arabia contributed to Europe’s medieval civilization.

Presently a professor of history at the University of Colorado and previously a Marie Curie Fellow at the Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid, Roger is an authority on medieval manuscripts and material culture. He relishes the opportunity to share his stories of investigating special Papal collections at the Vatican’s Secret Archive and Inquisition cases in the archives of Madrid and Lisbon.

Roger holds a doctorate in history from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s in public policy from the University of California - Berkeley. He is the author of Creating Conversos: The Carvajal-Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain as well as Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, The Inquisition, and New World Identities, based on an exhibition he helped curate for the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe. 

Ana Sánchez Acevedo holds a PhD from the University of Seville, where she teaches contemporary literature, creative writing, and theatre history, as part of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Literature. The main focus of her current research concerns the links between theatricality, corporeality, ethics, and politics in contemporary Iberian and Latin American theater. After earning her bachelor’s in Hispanic philology, she conducted doctoral research abroad, first at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, and later at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne in France. Simultaneously, she strengthened her interdisciplinary background with master’s degrees in performing arts as well as library science and documentary heritage from universities in Spain. In 2015, she was awarded a five-year fellowship at the City University of New York, where she also obtained a master of philosophy in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino cultures.

She has published book chapters as well as articles that have appeared in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Primer acto, among others. Her most recent book project, Anatomical Theaters: Contemporary Vanitas and Dramaturgies of Crisis, explores sensibilities, temporalities, and corporeality of crisis in Peninsular and Latin American theatrical works. Since 2020, in addition to her research and teaching, she has been developing her own theatrical projects with the company Teatro Anatómico, based in Seville.

Dr. Fabio Esteban Amador is a multifaceted expert: an archaeologist, visual artist, explorer, and anthropology professor at New Jersey City University. His journey began in fine arts, where he discovered how early explorers used art and technology to document ancient cultures. This sparked a shift in focus towards archaeology, leading him to earn a master’s and Ph.D. from the State University of New York in Buffalo. As an explorer, Fabio pushes the boundaries of knowledge on cultural complexity, art, and mythology in the Americas, the Caribbean, the Iberian peninsula, and Southeast Asia. He leverages photography and creative imaging technologies to assess archaeological site conditions and craft visual narratives, merging art and science. Through his work, Fabio provides new insights into the emergence of cultural complexity and the role of art in shaping origin stories and mythology.