Daniela Bleichmar is Associate Professor in the departments of Art History and History at the University of Southern California. She received her BA from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in History (History of Science) from Princeton University, where she trained as a cultural historian of early modern science, specializing in the history of visual culture and the natural sciences in Europe and the Spanish Americas in the period 1500-1800. Before joining the USC faculty, she held a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship through the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, with which she remains actively involved. She is also in the executive committee of the USC Visual Studies Research Institute. Her work focuses on the history of the Spanish empire and early modern Europe, the production and circulation of knowledge and visual culture, the history of collecting and display, and the history of the book and prints. Her research and teaching interests include interactions between art and science in the early modern period; visual and material culture in the Spanish Americas and early modern Europe; the history of Iberia, the Spanish Americas, and the Atlantic World; the history of colonialism, imperialism, and global exchanges; the history of collecting and display; the history of print, books, and reading; and the history of mobility, circulation, and travel. Dr. Bleichmar has received multiple prizes and fellowships for her scholarship, among them a Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2004–2006) a Getty Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2008–2009), and a Getty Research Institute fellowship (2013–2014). In 2007 she was honored by Smithsonian Magazine as one of "37 under 36. America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences." In December 2008 she received the USC College General Education Teaching Award. She is the author of Visible Empire. Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2012), a study of five scientific expeditions sent by the Spanish crown to the Americas and the Philippines between 1777 and 1808. These expeditions brought together naturalists and artists, who collaborated to produce thousands of illustrations of imperial nature. The book discusses the status and uses of images in eighteenth-century natural history; the importance of visual material in training the expert eyes and skilled hands of naturalists; the role of print culture in establishing a common vocabulary of scientific illustration; the interaction among visual evidence, textual evidence, and material evidence; and the ways in which colonial naturalists and artists appropriated and transformed European models, producing hybrid, local representations. Visible Empire has been recognized with the 2014 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for the best book in European history from ancient times to 1815 (American Historical Association); the 2013 Leo Gershoy award for the most outstanding book in 17th- and 18th-century European history (American Historical Association); the 2013 Tufts book award (American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies); the 2013 Phi Kappa Phi award for the best book by a faculty member of the University of Southern California; a Honorable Mention for the 2013 Arvey book award (Association for Latin American Art); and the 2012 PROSE award for the best book in the history of science, medicine, and technology (Association of American Publishers). A Spanish edition of this book is forthcoming. Dr. Bleichmar has also published articles on visual culture and natural history in the Spanish empire (detailed below) and co-edited two volumes, Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500–1800 (Stanford University Press, 2008) and Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). Her current book project is entitled The Itinerant Lives of Painted Books: Mexican Codices and Transatlantic Knowledge in the Early Modern World. She is also co-editing a collection of essays entitled Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World, with Meredith Martin, to be published in Art History in Fall 2015; and working on a multi-year research project that will result in an exhibition at the Huntington Art Galleries in 2017, Visual Voyages: Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin, co-curated with Catherine Hess as part of the Getty Foundation's major initiative PST2: L.A./L.A.