Siraye Herron

Siraye Herron (Shasta) is a doctoral student studying under Dr. Maya Stanfield-Mazzi. Her research adopts a hemispheric approach to the Americas to illuminate visual expressions of Indigenous autonomy. As a person of Shasta and Peruvian descent, Sirayeexplores how historicity, coloniality, and identity manifest within the visual cultures of colonial Latin America. Her master’s thesis, completed at the University of Oklahoma, examined how the arts of colonial Cuzco resisted cultural erasure and European assimilation by creating new aesthetic systems that foregrounded Indigenous survivance. Building on this foundation, her current work investigates Indigenous engagements within colonial artistic frameworks and how Andean artists indigenized European techniques to assert cultural presence and agency.  

Her participation in conferences such as the Midwest Art History Society and the Conference on Global Indigenous Studies has been supported by multiple research grants and awards, which continue to support her doctoral work. 

herronh@ufl.edu