Charlene Villaseñor Black
Charlene Villaseñor Black is a professor of art history and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She recently edited Tradition and Transformation: Chicana/o Art from the 1970s to the 1990s and a dossier on teaching Latina/Latino art in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Her 2006 book Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire was awarded a College Art Association Millard Meiss Subvention. She is associate director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center and the editor of Aztlán. In 2016 she was awarded UCLA’s Gold Shield Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence.