Karen Mary Davalos

Karen Mary Davalos, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, is a leading scholar of Chicana/o/x art, with four books on the subject: Exhibiting Mestizaje (UNM Press, 2001); The Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers, 1971-2006 (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2010), the Silver Prize winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Reference Book in English, a prize-winning monograph on Yolanda M. López (distributed by UMN Press, 2008), and Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties (NYU Press, 2017). her latest book which exposes and challenges untenable methods in art history. With Constance Cortez, she is building “Rhizomes of Mexican American Art since 1848,” an online digital tool linking art collections and related documents from libraries, archives, and museums. She serves on the board of directors of Self Help Graphics and Art, Inc. She has mentored more than 37 students – most of whom are BIPOC – into graduate and professional schools.