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Jonathan Berger, Stanford University). She holds the 2021-22 “Research Excellent Award” from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women in support of her book manuscript on women and Inca architecture.
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More recently, Nair was awarded a Rome Prize by the American Academy of Rome and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.Ĭurrently, Nair is a member of the “Sound, Space, and the Aesthetic of the Sublime” multi-year, interdisciplinary research project funded by the Templeton Religious Trust (P.I. Nair has received numerous research grants and fellowships from the American Philosophical Association, the Center for the Study of the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art), Dumbarton Oaks, the Fulbright Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the John Carter Brown Library. Nair’s article “Localizing Sacredness, Difference, and Yachacuscamcani in a Colonial Andean Painting” was honored by its selection as one of thirty-two “greatest hits” articles published in the last hundred years of the Art Bulletin.
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Nair has also published (with Jean-Pierre Protzen) a book entitled The Stones of Tiahuanaco: A Study of Architecture and Construction (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2013), which explores one of the world’s most artful and sophisticated carving traditions. Nair’s previous book, At Home with the Sapa Inca: Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero (University of Texas, 2015), examines the sophisticated ways in which the Inca manipulated space and architecture to impose their authority. Nair’s current book project, “ Shelter, Shrine, and Prison: The Acllauasi and Other Spaces for Women in the Inca Empire,” will be the first in-depth study of the acllauasi (“house of the chosen women”) and of female space in the Inca Empire. Nair’s publications explore a range of subjects and regions such as colonial Andean paintings, Tiahuanaco lithic technology, the design of Inca royal estates, eighteenth century woven roofs, and Brazilian urbanism. Trained as an architect and architectural historian, Nair has conducted fieldwork in Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States, with ongoing projects in the South Central Andes. Stella Nair’s scholarship focuses on the built environment of indigenous communities in the Americas and is shaped by her interests in construction technology, spatial theory, material culture studies, landscape transformations, cross-cultural exchange, and hemispheric networks.