Contributors

Karina H. Corrigan is the Deputy Chief Curator and the H. A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM). As Deputy Chief Curator, she is responsible for spearheading research on PEM’s rich and storied collection, enhancing access to it through increased documentation, digitization, and display, and building the collection through new acquisitions. In her curatorial practice, she oversees the largest, most comprehensive public collection of cross-cultural art from China, Japan, and South Asia. She has organized ten changing exhibitions drawn from PEM’s notable collections, including Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age, coorganized with the Rijksmuseum.

Jorge Rivas Pérez is the inaugural Emily Rauh Pulitzer Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Saint Louis Museum of Art. Prior to this, Rivas served as the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Latin American Art and Department Head at the Denver Art Museum from 2016 to 2024. During his tenure at the Denver Art Museum, he curated Have A Seat: Mexican Chair Design Today (2024–25), The Skeletal World of José Guadalupe Posada (2023), and co-curated Re:Visión: Art in the Americas (2021–22).

Kathryn Santner is the Assistant Curator of Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum. Prior to joining the museum as the Frederick and Jan Mayer Fellow of Spanish Colonial Art, she worked at the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation and the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Margaret E. Connors McQuade is an independent curator and works as the Vice President of Collections, Museum of the City of New York. She was previously Deputy Director and Head of Collections at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, where she worked in a number of roles for nearly thirty-one years. She received her PhD in art history from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York in 2005. She has curated several exhibitions on ceramics, including Talavera Poblana: Four Centuries of a Mexican Ceramic Tradition (Americas Society, 1999) and Alcora en New York: La colección de cerámica de Alcora (Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón de la Plana and Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia, 2005).

Roberto Junco has been Deputy Director of the Vice Directorate of Underwater Archaeology (SAS) of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) Mexico since 2017. He is an Affiliated Scholar of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, a member of the Society for Historical Archaeology and the International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH), and an Institutional Board Member of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA). He holds a PhD from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), in Mexico City, and a diploma in Historical Archaeology from Leicester University.

Ronda Kasl is Curator of Latin American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A specialist in the art of Spain and Spanish America, her curatorial work is chiefly concerned with the ways in which art objects are embedded in both local and global contexts of making and meaning. In addition to her curatorial work, she is Scholar in Practice at the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. She has curated numerous installations and exhibitions, including Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World (2009), Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque (2017), and Crossroads: Empires and Emporia (2020–22).

Abi Lua is Assistant Curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She specializes in American and global craft and material culture, and her research has been supported by the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware. At the Michener, she has curated or cocurated Yesterday’s Dreams Are Real: Collecting Black Art and the Legacy of Lewis Tanner Moore (2025) and Lisa Naples: Grounded in Gold (2025).

Diego Javier Luis is the Rohrbaugh Family Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in the fields of colonial Latin America and Spanish Pacific studies. He is the author of The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History (Harvard University Press, 2024).

Samuel Frédéric Luterbacher is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Occidental College. His research focuses on the early modern art and material culture, particularly the arts of the Portuguese and Spanish empires, centering on Iberian expansion in Asia and trade with Japan. His work has been supported by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington DC, and he has been a member of the Global Horizons in Pre-modern Art research group at the University of Bern’s Institute of Art History.

Clement Onn is the Director of the Asian Civilisation Museum and Peranakan Museum, Singapore. Prior to that, he was the deputy director (curatorial & research) and principal curator of Asian export art. His research interest lies in exchanges between Asia and Europe in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. His primary focus is on trading networks and the spread of the Christian faith in Asia, particularly in the Indian subcontinent, Japan, China, and the Philippines. He has co-curated the exhibitions Christianity in Asia: Sacred Art and Visual Splendour (2016), Port Cities: Multicultural Emporiums of Asia 1500–1900 (2016), Life in Edo x Russel Wong in Kyoto (2021), and Manila Galleon: From Asia to the Americas (2023).

Aldo Solano Rojas is an architectural and design historian, author of Playgrounds del México moderno (Cubo Blanco, 2018), and member of the Mexican chapter of DOCOMOMO, which documents and conserves modern architecture and design. He is currently a professor in the School of Architecture of the National University of Mexico (UNAM).