Yessica Liliana Porras

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Yessica Porras (2015) is a first-year PhD student focusing on Colonial Latin American art. After years away from her native country of Colombia, she developed an interest in art history as a way of learning more about her culture and expanding the knowledge of this understudied area. She is looking forward to beginning her work under the guidance of Todd Olson and Lisa Trever. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2014. Here she developed an interest in the intersection between colonial and indigenous cultures,
represented in in her Honors Thesis Church of St. John the Baptist at Sutatausa: Indoctrination and Resistance.
 

Advisor: Todd Olson