Kendra Brewer

Kendra Brewer (she/they) is a scholar whose research focuses on the arts produced in Mesoamerica during the late postclassic and early colonial period. Her work pays particular attention to how art, especially written art, reflects contact among the various ethnic and linguistic groups in the region during this time. Brewer’s research interests include the impact of art on individual and collective experiences of identity, the relationship between Mesoamerican languages and their visual or material expressions, and issues of information preservation and transmission. Before coming to Yale, Brewer earned a B.A. in the History of Art and Spanish from Johns Hopkins University. Brewer is a Beinecke Scholar, and her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Walters Art Museum, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Research Stipend at Johns Hopkins University.