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Jeanette Peterson has received grants from the Kress Foundation and the California Council for the Humanities and a University of California President's Research Fellowship. Her book publications include The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-century Mexico (University of Texas Press, 1993), winner of the 1995 CAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award; and Precolumbian Flora and Fauna (Mingei Museum of International Art, 1990). Her primary interest focuses on the complex interchange between the pre-conquest and European Renaissance worlds in the sixteenth century, including the hybridity evident in pictorial manuscripts as European alphabetic script replaced indigenous image-based sign systems. Of her studies on the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, the most recent is an essay titled “Crafting the Self: Identity and the Mimetic Tradition in the Florentine Codex” (2003). Currently, she is focusing on the imaging of women and the transferal and transformation of Marian cults from Spain to the Americas. A particular focus is the Mexican devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe resulting in several articles, one in Art Journal (1992) and most recently, an article, "Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe: The Cloth, Artist and Sources in 16th century New Spain" (in The Americas, 2005). A book project is underway analyzing the evolving iconography and political ramifications of both the medieval Spanish devotion to Guadalupe, a black Madonna, and her American counterparts in South America and Mexico.