Marina Alvarez
Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar
Marina M. Álvarez is a curator, scholar, and an educator. From 2021-2023, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Visual Arts Curatorial Assistant at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Illinois, and in 2019 she was a Latino Museum Studies Fellow through the National Museum of the American Latino. Marina holds an MA in Spanish from Loyola University Chicago, an MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research project will interrogate the trope of la maestra rural (the rural school teacher) in twentieth century Mexican visual culture to better understand how its nuances have articulated and disarticulated nationalism, gender-based violence, and notions of racialization.
