Michael Schreffler

Director, Arts Initiative; Associate Dean for the Arts, College of Arts and Letters; Professor of Art History

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Office
100F O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Mobile
804-615-2255
Email
mschreff@nd.edu

Biography

Michael Schreffler is a scholar of Spanish colonial art and architectural history. His research studies the ways in which objects, images and architectural forms communicated ideas and facilitated governance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He explores these themes in the geographic context of the Spanish monarchy's two American jurisdictions: the kingdom (or viceroyalty) of Peru, which comprised most of Andean South America, and that of New Spain, which extended northward from Panama into the southwestern USA and also included the Philippine Islands.