Nancy L. Kelker is Professor of Art History at Middle Tennessee State University. A former Associate Curator at of New World/Latin American Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art, she is the author of Mel Casas: Artist as Cultural Adjuster (2014) and the coauthor, with Karen O. Bruhns, of Faking Ancient Mesoamerica (2019) and Faking the Ancient Andes (2009).