2023-24 New Faculty

Trenton D. Barnes, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Arts, is a scholar of the Indigenous Americas whose research and teaching concern the art and architectural history of ancient central Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. and A.M. in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard Univeristy and a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University. His first book project, To Walk the Space of Time: Emptiness and the Production of Bodies in the Architecture of Teotihuacan, comprises the first architectural history of the ceremonial center of the largest city of American antiquity. His research has been supported by Dumbarton Oaks, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and several institutes of Harvard, including the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Asia Center, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Before joining Williams College, Dr. Barnes was Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Texas at Arlington and a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Program in Latin American Studies of Princeton University.