Laura Beltrán-Rubio
History of art and design
Research Interests
Arts of the Americas
History of Design and the Transmission of Ideas
Fashion, Jewelry, and Decorative Arts
Drawings and Prints
Digital Humanities/Digital Art History
Experience
2019 – 2010
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Williamsburg, VA
Book Review Apprentice, working under the supervision of Dr. Nicholas Popper, Book Review Editor for the William and Mary Quarterly.
2017, 2019
Universidad de Los Andes
Bogota, Colombia
External Professor: “Dressing the Revolution” (School of Arts and Humanities, Summer 2017). Visiting Professor: “Fashion Studies: Theory, Culture, Society” (MA Design, School of Architecture and Design, Summer 2019).
2016 – 2017
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
Research Assistant to Femke Speelberg, Associate Curator of Drawings and Prints of design, ornaments, and architecture.
Summer of 2016
El Museo del Barrio
New York, NY
Curatorial Intern, working with Rocío Aranda-Alvarado on the exhibition “Antonio López: Future Funk Fashion” (on view June 14 – November 26, 2016).
2014 – 2016
Parsons School of Design
New York, NY
Teaching Assistant for History of Fashion and Introduction to Fashion Studies
Research Assistant to Hazel Clark, Ph.D., FRSA, Chair of Fashion Research at Parsons School of Design.
About Me
I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the College of William and Mary. My research lies at the intersection of fashion history and art history, with a focus on the consumption, dissemination, and representation of dress and practices of self-fashioning in colonial Spanish America.
Education
[Currently enrolled]
The College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA
Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies
2016
Parsons School of Design
New York, NY
M.A. Fashion Studies
2014
Universidad de Los Andes
Bogota, Colombia
B.A. Economics (concentration in history)
Minor in Management
Skills
Contact
- www.laurabelru.com
- info@laurabelru.com
- @laurabelru