Nathalie Miraval

Nathalie Miraval is a third-year PhD student in the History of Art. Her research focuses on the role of enslaved and free Africans in engaging with and shaping the Catholic religious visual cultures of early modern New Spain (Mexico). She is interested in the construction and negotiations of kinship, gender, power, and value between the spiritual and material world. She earned her BA in History of Art and Architecture with a secondary in Ethnicity, Migration and Rights from Harvard. Prior to Yale, Nathalie served as Public Programming and Outreach Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC, where she designed and implemented the institution’s first (bilingual) educational programs. She is one of the co-founders of "Son Sin Fronteras", an activist 'son jarocho' group based in New Haven.