Research Production

Faculty/Staff

Books:

Grádega, Elvia Andía. 2019. Online Quechua method (basic- Intermediate) Affordable Learning Exchange. Building excellent and affordable Learning at Ohio State. AXL. The Ohio State University. https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/quechua/.

Grádega, Elvia Andía. 2019. Pirqakunawan parlaspa - Hablando con las paredes. Awarded national literature prize Premio Guamán Poma de Ayala in indigenous language. Ministerio de Culturas y Turismo, Bolivia.

Latorre, Guisela. 2019. Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile. Columbus: OSU Press.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2015. Encuentros rituales: la comunidad mítica y moderna de los otavalos. (Spanish translation of Ritual Encounters, 2009). Columbus: AlterNativas E-Book Series, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-941373-03-3.

Dueñas, Alcira. 2011. Indians and Mestizos in the ‘Lettered City’: Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. Awarded Thomas McGann National Award, Rocky Mountains Council for Latin American Studies. Second edition (open access), 2017. Third edition, 2019. .

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2009. Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community, Ethnographic Series: Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Book Chapters:

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2019. “Northern Andean Cosmology and Otavalan Hip Hop” in The Andean World, edited by Kathleen Fine-Dare and Linda Seligmann. Routledge.

Dueñas, Alcira. 2019. “Viracocha vs. God: Andean Though and Cultural Change in Colonial Bolivia.” in The Andean World, edited by Kathleen Fine-Dare and Linda Seligmann. Routledge Press.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2018. “Gender Performativity and Indigenous Conceptions of Duality in the Inti Raymi-Jatun Puncha Festivals of Cotacachi, Ecuador” in The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Pop Culture in Latin America, ed. Frederick Aldama. Routledge Press.  

Latorre, Guisela. 2017. “Indigenous Images of Democracy on City Streets: Native Representations in Contemporary Chilean Graffiti and Muralism,” in Street Art of Resistance, ed. Sarah H. Awad and Brady Wagoner Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave McMillam: 87-112.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2016. “Otavalan Transnational Music Making: The Andean Music Scene in Japan” in Made in Latin America: Studies in Popular Music, edited by Christian Spencer and Julio Mendívil: 135-146. Routledge Global Popular Music Series. New York: Routledge Press.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2014. “The Way of Sorrows: Performance, Experience and the Moral Society in Northern Ecuador” in Performativity, Power, and the Poetics of Being: Soundscapes from the Americas, edited by Donna Buchanan: 127-141. Surrey, England: Ashgate Press.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2003. “Appendix: General Information on Ecuador” in Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics. ed. Norman E. Whitten. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Journal Articles:

Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela. 2020. Decolonial Information Practices: Repatriating and Stewarding the Popol Vuh Online. Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture. 48(3-4): 107-119. doi :10.1515/pdtc-2019-0009.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2020. “K’acha willaykuna: Mensajes con belleza” in Número Especial de la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL) Literaturas indígenas de Abiayala/América Latina.  Ed. José Antonio Mazzotti (Guest Ed. Arturo Arias), Autumn 2020 (91:1): 177-200. 

Dueñas, Alcira. 2019. “Colonial Legal History of Peru.” Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. In collaboration with Renzo Honores. 

Dueñas, Alcira. 2018. “Indian Colonial Actors in the Law Making of the Spanish Empire in Peru.” Ethnohistory. Volume 65 No. 1.

Dueñas, Alcire. 2017. “Cabildos de Naturales en el Ocaso Colonial: jurisdicción, posesión y defensa del espacio étnico.” Histórica. Vol. XL, No. 2: 135-170.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2017. “Andean and Amazonian Material Culture and Performance Traditions as Sites of Indigenous Knowledges and Memory” in TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World Special Issue: Indigenous Knowledges and Sites of Indigenous Memory. Guest editor Arturo Arias, Spring 2017 (7:1).

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2017. “Purijkuna Otavalan Transnational Migrants: Indigenous Global Mobility and the Politics of Destination.” ALTER/NATIVAS Latin American Cultural Studies Journal Special Issue: New Approaches to Transnational Migration and Cultural Change. ed. Abril Trigo and Ignacio Corona, Autumn 2017 (7).

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2015. “La pugna de los aciales: Batallas rituales y el papel de la violencia en el contexto del Inti Raymi, Cotacachi, Ecuador” in Sarance No. 34.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2015. “Encuentros rituales—Las danzas del Inti Raymi en Cotacachi y Otavalo, Ecuador” in Sarance No. 33: 26-36.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2010. "Sacred Spring, Sacred Duty: Interview with Taita José Rafael Carrascal Cacuango" in Cultural Survival Quarterly, 34 (3): 8-11.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2008. Journal—Pangaea: Global Connections, Volume 1. Founder and Editor. St. Edward’s University publication of student work on global issues. 

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2005. "Encuentros: Dances of the Inti Raymi in Cotacachi, Ecuador” in Latin American Music Review 26 (2): 189-220. 

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2005. “Otavaleños at the Crossroads: Physical and Metaphysical Coordinates of an Indigenous World” in JLAA (Journal of Latin American Anthropology) 10 (1): 151-185.  

Bulletins and Short Articles:

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2017. Invited commentary on Carlos David Londoño Sulkin’s article “Moral Sources and the Reproduction of the Amazonian Package” Current Anthropology 58(4):494-495.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2016. “Making OSU Home through the Andes” ¿Qué Pasa OSU? Volume 24 (2). Co-authored with undergraduate student Diego Arellano.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2016. “Far from Home but Right at Home: Ecuadorian Student Experiences the Andes at OSU” ¿Qué Pasa OSU? Volume 24 (2). Co-authored with undergraduate student Diego Arellano.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2010. "Ritual Encounters—Lived Experiences with the Power to Transform Society" Anthropology Newsletter. 

Book Reviews:

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2021. Book review for The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History "Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. By Dylan Robinson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.

Dueñas, Alcira. 2019. Book review for The Academy of American Franciscan History. In Service of Two Masters. The Missionaries of Ocopa, Indigenous resistance, and Spanish Governance in Bourbon Peru. By Cameron D. Jones. Stanford: Stanford University Press; Oceanside, CA.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2016. Book review for JOFR September 2016 of Linda D’Amico’s Otavalan Women, Ethnicity and Globalization. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2015. Book review for Latin American Music Review (Fall/Winter) vol. 36:2 of Ketty Wong’s Whose National Music? Identity, Mestizaje, and Migration in Ecuador. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2012. Book review for Latin American Music Review of Claude Ferrier's Navidad en los Andes: Arpa, comparsas y zapateo en San Francisco de Querco, Huancavelica. Instituto de Etnomusicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y CH-EM Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology, 2008.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2009. Book review for Journal of Anthropological Research of Jason Pribilsky’s La Chulla Vida: Gender, Migration and the Family in Andean Ecuador and New York City. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2007.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2007. Book review for Agricultural History 62(3): 411-412 of Barry Lyons’s Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2006. Book review for CJLACS (Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies) 31(61):268-271 of Peter Wogan’s Magical Writing in Salasaca: Literacy and Power in Highland Ecuador. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2006. Book review for JLAA (Journal of Latin American Anthropology) 11(1):244-246 of Judy Blankenship’s Cañar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador.  Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2005.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2005. Book review for LAMR (Latin American Music Review) 26(1):115-122 of Lynn Meisch’s Andean Entrepreneurs: Otavalo Merchants and Musicians in the Global Arena.  Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2002.

Databases/Multimedia/Websites/Blogs/Podcasts

2021: Andean and Amazonian Resources, University Libraries. https://guides.osu.edu/Andean.

2021: Our Distance Unlearning Hour, weekly online discussion group for K’acha Willaykuna project; outgrowth from both in-person Our Unlearning Hour and the This Decoloniality? bi-weekly reading group began in December 2019.

2021: dear fellow settler colonizer podcast series. Professor Richard Fletcher's monthly podcast show on Verge.fm with Cannupa Hanska Luger. http://minusplato.com/unfinished/dear-fellow-settler-colonizer.

2021: The Quechua Learning Community, Ohio State University. https://u.osu.edu/quechua/.

2020: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection Website. https://u.osu.edu/aaac/.

2020-present: K’acha Willaykuna Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Humanities Collaboration Website. https://globalartsandhumanities.osu.edu/research/kacha-willaykuna.

2020: CLAS-OSU Teach the Andes: K-12 Resource Repository. https://clas.osu.edu/andean-amazonian-studies.

2020: Minus Plato Mask Media, a series of pages focused on masks as part of the classic Philosopher 2450: Philosophical Problems in the Arts.

2020: Minus Plato Requited Flame (RF) for Àbadakone, a sequence of daily posts, wall-text, a slide-show of installation shots, short videos, and a space for future comments about artists included in the exhibition Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel at the National Gallery in Ottawa, Canada.

2018: CLAS-OSU Andean Music Community Engagement Teachers’ Guide. https://clas.osu.edu/outreach/andean-ensemble/educator-resources. 

2015: SoundCloud recordings of Andean Music Ensemble AU 2015 edited by Gordon Ulmer https://soundcloud.com/andeanensemble

2015: Radio Ilumán 96.7 FM (Ecuador) Raymi Tuta Program (La Gran Fiesta de la Noche) diffusion of selections of Encuentros rituales: la comunidad mítica y moderna de los otavalos.  7:00-10:00 p.m. June 27, 28, July 4, 5, 11, and 12, 2015.

2012: MinusPlato, Professor Richard Fletcher's person site compiling Arts and Education for an Unfinished Exhibition. http://minusplato.com/

2010: Author's Online Book Interview—Latin America Book Review on Michelle Wibbelsman's first book, Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community.

2008: Dissertation included in eHRAF (Human Relations Area Files), an institution founded at Yale University over 50 years ago to facilitate the comparative study of culture and human behavior. The HRAF Collection currently contains cultural files on 385 cultures around the world.

2008: Dissertation included in RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines published in an ongoing database in printed, online, and CD-ROM formats.

Exhibits/Performance/Creative Works

Minus Plato, Léuli Eshrāghi, Columbus Printed Arts Center, Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Ke´y Rusú Katupyry, Verá Poty Resakã. Potu faitautusi: Faiāʻoga o gagana e, ia uluulumamau! (Be Courageous, Language Teachers! Reading Room) – exhibition of books and prints at the Columbus Printed Arts Center. September 2020-April 2022.

Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela, Leonardo Carrizo, and Wibbelsman, Michelle. Dancing with Devils: Latin American Mast Traditions, University Libraries, Online Exhibit. 2020-present. https://library.osu.edu/site/dancingwithdevils/.

Noquisi, Arvcúken. This is Native Land Mural, installed along High Street and 10th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. 2020. https://globalartsandhumanities.osu.edu/research/kacha-willaykuna/land-acknowledgement. 

Minus Plato, sair goetz, Layla Muchnik-Benali, Mask-Faced Media - curated film screening at Rubicon Cinema, Akron, Ohio. February 2020. – with a section called ‘The Great Unlearning’, including works by Indigenous artists and filmmakers Sky Hopinka, Nathan Pohio and Caroline Monnet.

Calfuqueo Aliste, Sebastián. Saint Sebastián/Tañi kalül mongeley weychan mew
(My body is resisting). October 2019. https://globalartsandhumanities.osu.edu/events/sebastian-calfuqueo-aliste-public-performance-0.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. "The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell." National Traveling Exhibit, 2018-present. https://clas.osu.edu/hidden-life-things-andean-and-amazonian-cultural-artifacts-and-stories-they-tell.

Wibbelsman, Michelle and Eric Johnson. “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell.” Global Gallery, Hagerty Hall, The Ohio State University. 2016.

AAAC Student curators and Michelle Wibbelsman. Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Permanent Collection. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Hagerty Hall.

Conferences/Symposia/Invited Talks/Workshops

Wibbelsman, Michelle. “Punto de partida y Punto de llegada: culturas indígenas frente al extractivismo y la destrucción planetaria.” Mesas I y II.  LASA Co-Organizer. May 2021.

Dueñas, Alcira. “Decolonizing Andean Historiography” Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA) Symposium 2021. University of Georgia Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. Virtual Conference. March 2021.

Wibbelsman, Michelle, Richard Fletcher, Guisela LaTorre, Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Eric Johnson, and Sebastían Calfuqueo Aliste. "Saint Sebastián/Tañi kalül mongeley weychan mew (My body is resisting): Reflections on Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste’s 2019 Artist Residency at The Ohio State University.” Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA) Symposium 2021. University of Georgia Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. Virtual Conference. March 20 2021.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. “Pukllay Pampa: K’acha Willaykuna applied methods playground in practice.” Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA) Symposium 2021. University of Georgia Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. Virtual Conference. March 19 2021. 

Wibbelsman, Michelle. “Cultural Heritage, Colonialism and Human Rights.” Global Arts and Humanities Society of Fellows Digital Dialogue. March 8 2021. 

Dueñas, Alcira. “Indigenous Intellectuals of the Colonial Andes.” Texas Tech University, November 12 2020. Via Zoom.

Dueñas, Alcira. “Don Francisco Minoyulli, o Las Trampas del Exito: escribanos indígenas en la ‘Ciudad Letrada’ de Lima, siglo XVIII.” International Congress “Ni Descubiertos ni Vencidos” October 16 2020. Via Zoom.

Wibbelsman, Michelle, Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Eric Johnson and Stephanie Porrata. “Portals to the Past and Present: Instructional Pedagogy With Primary Sources” Sixth Annual One Community Conference, Olentangy Local School District (K-12 community). Lewis Center, OH. February 8 2020.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. “How the calabacita tallada Transformed Our Teaching and Learning about Latin America.” Invited workshop with Ann Hidalgo  CLAS K-12 Teachers’ Workshop -Teaching the Andes in K-12 Classrooms, OSU. January 23 2020. 

Dueñas, Alcira.. Round Table Chair and Organizer “Historical Fact Formation and the Colonial Archives of Indigenous and Afro Descendants.” CLAH-AHA, New York City, Sheraton Hotel. January 5 2020.

Dueñas, Alcira. “Tuning the Colonial Survey.” Round table coordinator and panelist. CLAH- AHA. January 5 2020.    

Wibbelsman, Michelle. Pop Up Traveling Panels “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell.” OSU Quechua Alliance Meeting, autumn 2019.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. Showcased “Sumac Puringashpa—Andean and Amazonian Virtual Reality Collaboration.” ACCAD office of Research. October 21 2019.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. “Reflections on Luis Enrique “Katsa” Cachiguango’s teachings about Andean Ontologies and Moralities” paper presentation for panel "Religion in the Andes -- Pre-Hispanic, Colonial and Postcolonial Periods." Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Santa Fe, NM. April 3-6 2019.

Michelle Wibbelsman. "Sumac Puringashpa: Walking the Meaningful Path: Coming and Going in Andean and Amazonian Worldviews." Invited showcasing of Andean and Amazonian Presented in Collaboration in STEAM Factory Imaginarium Space. OSU INNOVATE Conference, May 16 2019.

Michelle Wibbelsman. “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell” National Traveling Exhibit. Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Mobility, Migration, Immobility (MMI), Indigenous Peoples Day Event, Autumn 2019.

Wibbelsman, Michelle.  Invited talk on “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell.” University of Wisconsin, Madison. March 12 2019. Via Skype

Grádega, Elvia Andía. Loan words and their importance in the translation of indigenous languages. Oberlin College. Department of Hispanic Studies, La Casa Hispánica. April 2018.

Grádega, Elvia Andía. Quechua for Everybody-Including you and your students! 2018 OFLA Annual Conference. Ohio Foreign Language Association.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. One of five collaborative projects presented to VP of Research team “Sumac Puringashpa – Andean and Amazonian Virtual Reality Collaboration” Norah Zuniga-Shaw, Professor, Dance | ACCAD; Michelle Wibbelsman, Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese; Alan Price, Associate Professor, Design | ACCAD; Abigail Ayers, MFA Candidate, Design. ACCAD Tour for Dr. Morley Stone, VP of Research. December 11 2018.

Wibbelsman, Michelle and Eric Johnson. “Portals to the Past and Present” Workshop in collaboration with Rare Books and Manuscripts. Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America Symposium. October 28 2018. 

Wibbelsman, Michelle. La Gran Feria de los Idiomas—co-coordinator with Elvia Andia and presenter “Andean Music and Quechua Language” workshop/reception. Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America Symposium. October 27 2018. 

Wibbelsman, Michelle. Andean/Amazonian Sumac Puringashpa Virtual Reality demonstration. Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America Symposium. October 25 2018.

Wibbelsman, Michelle. Pop-up Exhibit “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell” Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America Symposium. October 25 2018.

Latorre, Guisela. “Open-sky Museums in Chile: Murals, Graffiti, and the Collection of Experiences,” The Inclusive Museum: Diaspora, Integration and Museums, Manchester, England, September 2017.

Latorre, Guisela. “Transnational Incursions in Chilean Street Art: The Post-Dictatorship Era,” Cuarto Congreso Internacional Latinoamérica: Tradición y Globalización en el siglo XXI, Cuernavaca, Mexico, August 2017.

Latorre, Guisela. “Indigenous Images of Democracy on City Streets: Native Representations in Contemporary Chilean Graffiti and Muralism,” Modern Languages Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. January 2017.

Johnson, Eric. “Conceiving Culture through the Material Instantiations of Texts.” Discussant in the session "Living Andes/Amazonia: Developing an Integrated Learning Environment for the Study of Andean and Amazonian Languages and Cultures." Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA) / Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STLILLA). The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 14 2016.

Johnson, Eric. “Living Andes/Amazonia: Developing an Integrated Learning Environment for the Study of Andean and Amazonian Languages and Cultures.” Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA) / Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STLILLA). The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. October 2016.

Grants/Awards

  • Espinosa de Los Monteros, Pamela. 40 Under 40 2021 presented by Columbus Business First. https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2021/04/12/the-business-first-40-under-40-here-are-the-2020.html.

  • Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant for Indigenous Arts and Humanities. Collaborative Centers Grant with CLAS and ACCAD. K’acha Willaykuna: Indigenous Performance Past, Present, and Emerging (2021-2023). $50,000. Co-PIs: Michelle Wibbelsman (Spanish and Portuguese); Oded Huberman (ACCAD); Supporting Faculty: Vita Berezina Blackburn (ACCAD); Jeremy Patterson (ACCAD); Marc Ainger (ACCAD/Music); Norah Zuniga-Shaw (ACCAD/Dance); Alex Oliszewski (ACCAD/Theater); Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (University Libraries); Guisela LaTorre (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies); Richard Fletcher (Arts Administration, Education and Policy); Elvia Andia Grageda (Spanish and Portuguese); Eric Johnson (Rare Books and Manuscripts Library); Isis Barra-Costa (Spanish and Portuguese). 2021.

  • Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2020. CLAS Priority Immediate Impact Project Grants. 10 projects totaling $32,500+. 

  • Wibbelsman, Michelle. 2020. Private donation to support CLAS/SPPO Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifact Collection and Exhibit. $10,000 private donation renewed for fifth year. Faculty Curator of Collection and Exhibit. 

  • Grádega, Elvia Andía. 2019. National Literature Prize, Guamán Poma de Ayala in indigenous language. Ministerio de Culturas y Turismo, Bolivia. For Pirqakunawan parlaspa - Hablando con las paredes.

  • Grádega, Elvia Andía. 2019. Award recipient; 2018-19 SPPO Associated Faculty Award for Excellence in Second Language Teaching & Learning. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The Ohio State University.

  • Grádega, Elvia Andía. 2019. Learning Exchange. Building excellent and affordable Learning at Ohio State. AXL.

  • Grádega, Elvia Andía. 2019. Quechua OPI Certificated Tester (Full Certification) The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

  • Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant for Indigenous Arts and Humanities. K’acha Willaykuna Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration. (2019-2021). $49,955.32. Michelle Wibbelsman (Spanish and Portuguese), Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (University Libraries), Guisela LaTorre (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies), Richard Fletcher (Arts Administration, Education and Policy), Alcira Dueñas (History), Megan Hasting (Center for Latin American Studies), Elvia Andia Grageda (Department of Spanish and Portuguese-Quechua), Eric Johnson (University Libraries).

  • Dueñas, Alcira. 2018-2021. Fulbright Scholar Grant (Long-term Residential Fellowship, Bolivia).

  • Dueñas, Alcira. 2017-2019. Fulbright Student Program. Review of OSU applications for the Fulbright Student Program in Colombia.

  • Dueñas, Alcira. 2011. Rocky Mountains Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS). The “Thomas McGann National Award” for the best book on Latin America produced in the United States for Indians and Mestizos in the ‘Lettered City’: Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru.

Students

Theses and Publications

D’Souza, Brandon. 2021.  Undergraduate Thesis “Interactive Technologies and Indigenous Art: Exploring the Use of Immersive Resources to Increase Audience Engagement with Ceramic Pieces in the Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection at The Ohio State University”  presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for graduation with research distinction in the undergraduate colleges of The Ohio State University, April 2021.  Research Committee: Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Pamela Espinosa de Los Monteros, Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American Studies and Latin American Studies Librarian; Jeremy Patterson, Graphics Researcher, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design.

Arellano, Diego. 2018. Undergraduate Thesis “Addressing Issues of Audience, Accessibility and Appreciation with Ohio State’s Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifact Collection” presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation with research distinction in the undergraduate colleges of The Ohio State University, December 2018. Research Committee: Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Dr. Norah Zuniga-Shaw, Director of Dance and Technology; Professor, Department of Dance and Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design; Professor Nena Couch, Head,Thompson Library Special Collections; Professor and Curator, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, University Libraries

2021: Canelos Quicha Pottery Interactive Program by Brandon D'Souza, Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection Curator. https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/patterson.680/vessel/.

2020-present: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection Website. https://u.osu.edu/aaac/

2018-present: "The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell." National Traveling Exhibit. https://clas.osu.edu/hidden-life-things-andean-and-amazonian-cultural-artifacts-and-stories-they-tell.

2018: Digital Storytelling for Afro-Latinidad, Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection by Osmari Novoa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fgoVb93qtE. 

2017: Photogrammetry of Items on the Andean/Amazonian Collection at Ohio State by Diego Arellano. https://u.osu.edu/aaac/our-projects/photogrammetry/. 

2017: ArcGIS map of QuichuaCeramic Collection in Ecuador by Diego Arellano. https://www.arcgis.com/apps/presentation/index.html?webmap=28cf2818d7894912a2d5bc2071932c0b

2016: Andean Ensemble at Ohio State University on Soundcloud produced by Gordon Ulmer. https://soundcloud.com/andeanensemble

Exhibits/Performance/Creative Works

AAAC Student curators. 2018-present. The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell. https://clas.osu.edu/hidden-life-things-andean-and-amazonian-cultural-artifacts-and-stories-they-tell.

"The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell." Permanent Exhibit, Global Gallery, Hagerty Hall, The Ohio State University. September-October 2016. 

AAAC Student curators. 2015-present. Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection. 

Student Conferences/Symposia/Invited Talks/Workshops

Brandon D'Souza, Frances Dillon, Elaine Louden, Micah Unzueta and Professor Michelle Wibbelsman. “Traditional Culture & Cutting-Edge Technology: Discovering Andean & Amazonian Worldviews through Digital Interactive Features” Invited showcasing of Andean and Amazonian Presented in Collaboration in STEAM Factory Imaginarium Space. OSU INNOVATE Conference, May 16 2019.

Brandon D'Souza, Frances Dillon, Elaine Louden, Micah Unzueta and Professor Michelle Wibbelsman. "Sumac Puringashpa: Walking the Meaningful Path: Coming and Going in Andean and Amazonian Worldviews." Invited showcasing of Andean and Amazonian Presented in Collaboration in STEAM Factory Imaginarium Space. OSU INNOVATE Conference, May 16 2019.

Brandon D'Souza, Frances Dillon, Elaine Louden, Micah Unzueta and Professor Michelle Wibbelsman. “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell” National Traveling Exhibit. Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Mobility, Migration, Immobility (MMI), Indigenous Peoples Day Event, Autumn 2019.

Brandon D'Souza, Frances Dillon, Elaine Louden, Micah Unzueta and Professor Michelle Wibbelsman. 2019. “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell” National Traveling Exhibit. OSU Quechua Alliance Meeting, Autumn 2019.

Student Grants/Awards/Achievements

Research Specialist position at the Getty Research Institute, awarded to Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur, 2020. 

Whitten Scholarship – Awarded to Student Curators of the Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection. 

  • 2021 Whitten Scholarship Awardees: Andrew Mitchel, Tamryn McDermott, Brandon D'Souza, Micah Unzueta, Kelly Tobin, Hallie Fried and Emily Brokamp
  • 2019-2020 Whitten Scholarship Awardees: Brandon D'Souza, Elaine, Louden, Frances Dillon, Jenna Meyeres

GAA for the K'acha Willaykuna: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration, supported by the GAHDT grant