Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank

Biography

Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank is associate professor of art history at Pepperdine University. Her MA and PhD are from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining Pepperdine faculty in 2015, she taught at Brooklyn College (CUNY), the Graduate Century (also CUNY), the University of Oregon, and UCLA. Her research primarily focuses on the visual culture of Spain and Latin America between 1400 and 1800, considering issues of colonialism, gender, censorship, and globalization. She teaches and publishes broadly on subjects as far-ranging as the ancient and medieval worlds (including the ancient Americas), the global Renaissance, viceregal and modern Latin America, Native American and First Nation art, pedagogy, and the digital humanities/digital art history. Some of her current research interests include the intersection of the body, emotions, and religion in the early modern world; ways in which to introduce students to digital visuality, public art history, and metadata; art made by and for nuns, and art made after the Jesuit diaspora. She is also a board member, content editor, and author for the not-for-profit Smarthistory.org, an open educational resource that aims to make art history accessible and open for anyone with an internet connection.

Education

• PhD in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
• MA in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
• BA, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004, summa cum laude