Maya Stanfield-Mazzi is an art historian specializing in ancient and colonial-period art of the Andean region and Mesoamerica. She examines Indigenous ways of seeing and representing the world and worlds-beyond. She has been especially interested in the ways in which Amerindians reinvented Catholic art in the colonial era. Her first book, Object and Apparition: Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes (University of Arizona Press, 2015), addresses the role of Indigenous Andean artists in establishing Catholicism in Peru. Her second book, Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820 focuses on Indigenous textile types that were adapted for the church. Professor Stanfield-Mazzi teaches courses on art of the ancient and colonial Americas. These include Ancient Andean Art and Indigenous Arts of the Colonial Americas.