Piety, Playa, Place: The revival of a Jesuit church in colonial Zacatecas

Dr. JoAnna M. Reyes’ scholarship centers on the visual and material culture of colonial Mexico and contemporary Chicana/o America.  Her teaching and research interests include identity formation and expression, extraction economy and the built environment, and borderland iconography.  Deeply interdisciplinary in her approach, Reyes adopts a decolonial methodology that seeks to reexamine notions of periphery and center and illuminate the multifaceted nature of Colonial institutions and histories.  She has recently published an entry in “Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500-1800” (Delmonico, 2022) and coauthored an article in “Feminist Formations” (John Hopkins University Press, 2022.) Reyes earned her PhD in Dec. 2021 from UCLA, where she later served as a lecturer.  She has previously worked at the Getty Research Institute, LACMA and the Hispanic Society Museum and Library. From 2016-2019, she served as the book review editor for “Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies.” In her lecture, Dr. Reyes will focus on her book project, whose central argument is that by using the rebuilt Jesuit church in Zacatecas as a case study, we can better understand how colonialism operates away from centers of power.