Daniela Bleichmar is assistant professor in the departments of Art History and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California. She is the author of multiple articles on the history of science, visual culture and travel in colonial Latin America and is coeditor, with Paula De Vos, Kristin Huffine and Kevin Sheehan, of Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800 (forthcoming from Stanford University Press in December 2008).