Celia Rodríguez Tejuca, recent doctoral graduate, has been appointed a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University.

Dr. Rodríguez Tejuca’s research centers on early modern Latin American art, with a particular focus on visual scientific cultures and critical bibliography. Her current book project explores epistemic images produced across the eighteenth-century Spanish Empire, analyzing locally conceived scientific artifacts from sites such as Manila, Havana, Mexico City, and Huancavelica.

Her scholarship has been supported by prestigious fellowships, including the Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art), the John Carter Brown Library, The Huntington Library, and the Lapidus–Omohundro Institute. She is also a junior member of the Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School.

In addition to her work in colonial visual culture, Dr. Rodríguez Tejuca has maintained an active engagement with film studies, particularly Cuban revolutionary cinema and postcolonial visual narratives. She previously served as chief editor of Cine Cubano, the official journal of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC).

We congratulate Dr. Rodríguez Tejuca on this exciting next chapter.