Nathalie Miraval

Nathalie Miraval is a PhD Candidate. She studies the spiritual expressive cultures of the early modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic, with a focus on gender and race. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Sacred Subversions: Martha, Monsters, and Domestic Devotion in the Early Modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic,” uses inquisition archives to study the material, visual, and performative aspects of Black women’s transatlantic spiritual networks.  Her work has been supported by the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid), the Renaissance Society of America, the Huntington Library, the John Carter Brown Library, and a U.S. Fulbright to Mexico. She is the 2024–2026 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

Prior to Yale, Nathalie served as Public Programming and Outreach Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC, where she designed and implemented the institution’s first educational programs. In 2014, she earned a BA in History of Art and Architecture with a secondary in Ethnicity, Migration and Rights from Harvard. In New Haven, she is a co-founder of the son jarocho group Son Sin Fronteras.