Erika Pazian

Erika Pazian holds a Ph.D. in art history from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, specializing in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art. She completed her MA at Brooklyn College, where her research centered on contemporary books arts in the United States and Mexico.

Erika's current research focuses on Mexican visual culture in the nineteenth century, with a specific interest in trans-national artistic exchange between the U.S. and Mexico during the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848). She has presented her research at numerous conferences, and she has received fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the American Antiquarian Society, the Gilcrease Museum, the John Carter Brown Library, and Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library. Erika taught for eight years at several different universities before joining the faculty of CWU in 2021.

Courses taught include:

ART 103 - Art Appreciation

ART 237 - History of World Art III

ART 333 - Art, Design and Popular Culture

ART 414 - Recent Art

ART 416 – International Experience in Art, Architecture, and Design

ART 434 - Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art

ART 479 - Methods and Theories of Art History

ART 481 - Art History Capstone