ALAL: Allison Caplan

Allison Caplan is a scholar of the art of Late Postclassic and early colonial Mesoamerica at Yale University, with a special focus on the Nahuas (Aztecs) of Central Mexico. Her research interests include Nahua art theory and aesthetics, issues of materiality and value, animal-human relations, and the relationship between visual expression and the Nahuatl language.