Garriott Awarded Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Caroline Garriott's dissertation charts the ebb and flow of sacred image-objects across the Iberian Peninsula and between the two largest cities of colonial South America, Lima "City of Kings" (founded in 1535) and Salvador da Bahia "City of the Holy Savior of the Bay of all Saints" (founded in 1549) from colony to nationhood. It spans disciplinary, linguistic, and imperial bounds to show how African slaves and indigenous painters, Spanish missionaries and Portuguese merchants, in their production, consumption, and circulation of images of saints, contributed to a process in which the sacred took on the colors of these multiracial slave societies.