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I’m an Assistant Professor of art history at The University of Washington, where I teach courses on the arts of Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. My specialty is in the arts and visual culture of the Spanish colonial Caribbean and the Afro-Iberian world, with a focus on popular piety and vernacular knowledge production in the eighteenth century. My research centers gendered and racialized knowing practices that were overlooked or misconstrued by the histories of science and religion in the age of reform. My first book project, Miraculous Altagracia: Testimony, Artifact, and Creole Heritage in Hispaniola, is an object-centered study of miracle making that traces the colonial origin story of the Virgin of Altagracia and its entanglement in nativist politics today in the Dominican Republic. My writing also considers contemporary Latinx art that grapples with the legacies of colonialism.
I hold a doctorate in art history from Florida State University, and have published on academic and public-facing platforms, including Small Axe, Arts, Hyperallergic, Yale University Press, and Smarthistory. My work has been funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, and I’m a fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership/The Mellon Foundation.
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teach courses on the art and architecture of colonial Latin America and
the Caribbean, the expressive arts of Africa, museum studies, Black
Atlantic print culture, eighteenth and nineteenth century European art,
Marian devotions and identity in the Americas, and
contemporary Latinx and Latin American art.
- Ph.D., History and Criticism of Art, Florida State University, 2021.
- M.A., Art History, The University of Arizona, 2013.
- M.A., Translation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 2005.
- B.F.A., Painting & Printmaking, minor: Romance Languages, SUNY PURCHASE, 2003.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2025 Jennifer Báez, “On Assembling Black Oceanic Histories”, in Simon Benjamin: A Bolt From The Blue, edited by Berette S. Macaulay (Seattle: Girlie Press), 2025.
2024 Jennifer Báez, “Mulata in Repose”, in Embodiments and Representations of Beauty, eds. Esther Hernández-Medina and Sharina Maillo-Pozo. Advances in Gender Research (AGR), Volume 35, 2024.
2024 Jennifer Báez, “How to Wrap a Colonizer”, in Nourish and Resist: Food and Transatlantic Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art, eds. Hannah Ryan and Lesley Wolff (A&A e-Portal, Yale University Press), January 2024.
2022 Jennifer Báez, “Why the Columbus Monument in Santo Domingo still Stands,” in Hyperallergic, April 12, 2022, https://hyperallergic.com/723520/why-the-columbus-monument-in-santo-domingo-still-stands/
2021 Jennifer Báez, “Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Monument in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasures,” in Small Axe, Vol. 66, 2021.
2021 Jennifer Báez, “John Padovani y la herida de la historia,” in Plenamar, July 8, 2021, https://plenamar.do/2021/07/john-padovani-y-la-herida-de-la-histora
2021 Jennifer Báez, “Modeling Black Piety and Community Membership in the Virgin of Altagracia Medallions,” in Arts 10, no. 2 (2021): 37
https://doi.org/10.3390/arts10020037
2020 Jennifer Báez, “Hispaniola’s early colonial art, an introduction,” in Smarthistory, September 17, 2020 https://smarthistory.org/hispaniola-intro/.
2014 Jennifer Báez, “Constructing the Nation at the 1955 Ciudad Trujillo World’s Fair.” ATHANOR 31 (2014): 93-101.
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2021 Jennifer Báez, “Modeling Black Piety and Community Membership in the Virgin of Altagracia Medallions,” in Arts 10, no. 2 (2021): 37
https://doi.org/10.3390/arts10020037
2020 Jennifer Báez, “Hispaniola’s early colonial art, an introduction,” in Smarthistory, September 17, 2020 https://smarthistory.org/hispaniola-intro/.
2014 Jennifer Báez, “Constructing the Nation at the 1955 Ciudad Trujillo World’s Fair.” ATHANOR 31 (2014): 93-101.