Professor, Art History
Ray Hernández-Durán, originally from San Antonio, Texas, completed his Ph.D. in Art History at The University of Chicago and is currently Professor of Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture. Among the courses he teaches are included, Arts of New Spain, Arts of Spain (1500–1850), Baroque Art and Architecture, Arts of Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, Latinx Art, and Museum Studies.
His research has focused, historically, on the eighteenth- and nineteenth centuries, and geographically, on New Spain/Mexico/U.S. Southwest. He has published on eighteenth-century painting, nineteenth-century historiography, and Latin American art academies with forthcoming projects on Chicano art.