Provost Diversity Fellow: Eric Mazariegos

Eric Mazariegos, PhD candidate

Department and School
Art History & Archaeology, Arts & Sciences

Bio
Eric specializes in Pre-Columbian and Latinx art. His dissertation analyzes art made by the Tairona between the 10th to 16th century on the Caribbean coast of South America. He is interested in issues like technological style, constructions of corporeality and the body’s engagement with art, as well as ecological understandings of art production and perception. In 2022, he was a summer fellow at the Harvard Art Museums for an intensive program on technical art history studies. In 2021, he received Honorable Mention from the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for his research on Chicanx art, muralism, and contemporary photographic practices. He has presented his research at invited lectures and graduate student conferences in the US and abroad. Eric received a B.A. in Art History and Spanish from UCLA in 2019 (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) where he was a Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellow and University of California Regents Scholar.

Advisor
Lisa Trever, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism; Director, Ph.D. Program

Favorite hangout on or off campus?
Joe Coffee NW Corner Building

Favorite self-care ritual
Scrolling through TikTok

Recommended podcast 
The H3 podcast

To learn more about Eric Mazariegos, please email him directly.