Tulane Team
Bird's eye view from Moreau's Restaurant, Mouth of Bayou St. John, The Historic New Orleans Collection
Adrian Anagnost
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Tulane University Associate Professor, Art History, Modern & Contemporary, Latin America, Director of Graduate Studies
Adrian Anagnost is an art historian studying histories of place, relationality, and territorialization in the Americas, with a particular focus on Brazil and the U.S. within broader Atlantic World networks. She is the author of Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil (Yale University Press, 2022).
Anagnost’s current research investigates art, material culture, and cartography addressing militarized ecologies of Louisiana edgewater terrains where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, with particular attention to approaches to territorialization and relationality informed by Indigenous and Black geographies.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Maryluna Santos Giraldo received her bachelor's and professorship’s degree in History from Universidad Católica Argentina located in Buenos Aires. In 2023 she finished her master's degree in Art History at University College London. This followed her completion of an initial master's degree in Art History from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2020. She is currently a Ph.D. Student at Tulane in Art History and Latin American Studies, where her doctoral research focuses on tracing the Indigenous and Black communities’ presence in the architecture that has been traditionally characterized as Mudéjar.
Leslie Geddes
Ph.D. Princeton University
Tulane University Associate Professor, Art History, Italian Renaissance & Baroque Art, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Leslie Geddes is an art historian of the early modern period, specializing in how artists, architects, engineers, and cartographers observed, measured, rendered, and shaped the world around them. She is the author of Watermarks: Leonardo da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature (Princeton University Press, 2020).
Her current research examines how printed maritime atlases confronted the struggle to represent the ineffable. Illuminating mapping practices in Italy in the late sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, her project interprets mapmaking through the theme of navigation: as a nautical, cartographic practice and as a means for assimilating visual information.
Graduate Assistants
Based in Jackson, Mississippi, Miriam Taylor Fair, holds bachelor’s degrees in English and Journalism from the University of Mississippi and a master’s in Communications from Syracuse University. Currently a Ph.D. student in Urban Studies at Tulane University’s City, Culture, and Community program, she also serves as an instructor of record at the Tulane School of Architecture. A former Mellon Fellow for community-engaged scholarship, Fair has held curatorial and communications roles at the Newcomb Art Museum and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. From 2020 to 2021, she served as interim director of the Newcomb Art Museum. Her research explores the intersection of museums, memorials, and memoryscapes, examining how they shape community and identity in the Gulf South.