Hailee Corbin

Hailee Corbin is a PhD student whose research focuses on the visual culture of Nahua Christianity and the shifting meanings of materials in sixteenth-century colonial Mexico.

Hailee holds a Master’s degree from Tulane University, where her thesis examined how Nahua elites and artists deployed elaborate visual programs, based on craft traditions developed prior to Spanish colonization, in the service of Christianization. She is particularly interested in how materials with long histories of use in Nahua art may have acquired new significance when incorporated into liturgical and paraliturgical objects.

Her Nahuatl language studies have been funded by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and a Foreign Language and Area Studies grant.