Office: Dodd 221D
Phone: 310 825 8233
cklein@humnet.ucla.edu

Cecelia F. Klein received her Ph.D. in 1972 from Columbia University, where her primary specialization was Pre-Columbian art history, with additional studies in African, Oceanic, and Native American art. Having taught all of these subjects for four years at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, she came in 1976 to UCLA to teach Pre-Columbian and Early Colonial (16th c.) Latin American art history. While she covers Mexican, Mayan, as well as Andean art, her own iconographic investigations focus on Aztec art, in particular its political patronage and functions, as well as its transformation during the decades immediately following the Spanish conquest. Also interested in gender issues and the historiography of Pre-Columbian art studies, Klein has published in such disciplinary journals as The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, and Art History, as well as field journals such as Ancient Mesoamerica and Current Anthropology. She is editor of Gender in Pre-Columbian America (Dumbarton Oaks) and is completing a volume of collected writings to be published by the University Press of Colorado.