Erin L. McCutcheon, PhD
Assistant Professor of Arts of the Americas
Department of Art & Art History
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Erin L. McCutcheon is an art historian whose research focuses on modern and contemporary Latin American art, feminist artistic practices, and their connections with activist histories. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Latin American Studies from Tulane University and is currently the Assistant Professor of Arts of the Americas at the University of Rhode Island. Prior to joining the faculty at URI, she directed the Art History program at Lycoming College and held positions in curatorial departments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Henry Moore Institute.
Her writing has appeared in several journals and critical publications, including Art Journal, OnCurating, The New Public Art: Collectivity and Activism in Mexico Since the 1980s (University of Texas Press, 2023), Pedagogical Art in Activist Practices (Routledge, 2025), and the catalog for Si tiene dudas… pregunte: una exposición retrocolectiva de Mónica Mayer (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, 2016), for which she also served as a curatorial research assistant. Her current book project, under contract with Rutgers University Press, examines the intersections between art, the women’s movement, and motherhood in post-1968 Mexico City and has been supported by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
She is committed to feminist advocacy and in 2025 was appointed to the College Art Association’s Committee on Women in the Arts. She has also been a member of the AWARE (Archive of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions) TEAM network since 2020, which is dedicated to creating resources and training a new generation of scholars sensitive to gender issues in art history. She is an award-winning educator whose art history courses emphasize socially engaged learning, connecting students with artists, activists, galleries, and museums while empowering them to make a meaningful impact in their communities.
