INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM

Felipe Gutierrez is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth century Latin American and Iberian cultures, with a particular focus on issues of material and visual culture, museum and heritage studies. His research focuses on the repatriation of cultural heritage between Colombia and Spain, particularly in relation to golden items and treasures. He also studies the relationships between tangible cultural heritage, literature, and visual arts of these two countries from a transatlantic perspective. During 2022-2023, he worked as an interdisciplinary graduate fellow at The Block Museum.