Her research focuses on material cultures of religion in the colonial and pre-Columbian Americas, particularly religious print culture in Spanish colonial South America. She is interested in the movement, materiality, and agency of objects. She has published on Inca metalwork, silversmithengravers in colonial Lima, prints and criollismo in seventeenth-century Lima, and religion and the digital humanities. She teaches on pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial art and visual culture.Her current book project, "The Global in the Local: Locally-Made Prints and the Shaping of Spanish Colonial South American Religious Networks" analyzes how South American devotional prints united the region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, creating a shared regional sacred geography. Floyd is Editor and Curator at the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University (MAVCOR, mavcor.yale.edu).
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