Maria Bastos Stanek

Maria Bastos-Stanek is a Ph.D. student of Latin American art. Bastos-Stanek earned her B.A. in the history of art and architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and M.A. in the history of art and architecture from Tufts University. She specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Brazilian art and visual culture. Her research focuses on the connections between art and the history of science and technology, the culture of war, and political and economic philosophy.