Biography

Dr. Travis Lee Clark is an adjunct in Art History at the Department of Art and Design who specializes in Non-Western and Latin American Art and Visual Culture.

He was awarded the Samuel H. Kress Travel Fellowship, and the American Research Center in Egypt Research Fellowship for research on original manuscripts at St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt. This research formed the basis of his dissertation on the illustrated manuscripts of "The Christian Topography" by Kosmas Indikopleustes.

After graduating from Temple University with his PhD in 2008, he taught Latin American and Contemporary Art History as an Assistant Professor of Art at Sul Ros State University in Texas, and as a Visiting Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University. Since 2017 he has taught as a lecturer in Art History at Utah Valley University, where he developed the first Non-Western offerings for the Art and Design program.

His most recent research focuses on the Mexica Revival and the survival of Pre-Columbian Visual Culture in the 16th C. illustrated manuscripts of Viceregal Mexico.

In 2021 he was awarded the Faculty Excellence Award for a lecturer at the School of Arts and the Global / Intercultural Faculty Award.