Cristina E. Pardo Porto is a scholar of Latinx and Latin American art and visual culture specializing in photography. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and is an assistant professor at Syracuse University. Her research examines the intersections of historical archives, race, gender, migration, and the environment in relation to Central America and the Caribbean. Her current book project offers a decolonial history of photography from the contemporary perspective of diasporic artists. Recent curatorial projects include the exhibition Joiri Minaya: Unseeing the Tropics at the Museum at the Syracuse University Art Museum (Spring 2025). She is the co-editor of Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production (University of Florida Press) and of two special issues of the journal Istmo, both titled "Photography in, on, and from Central America". Her scholarly work includes published and forthcoming articles on art photography in Art Journal, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Hispanic Review, and MLN. Pardo Porto was the 2023–24 research fellow at the Syracuse University Humanities Center and a 2025 visiting fellow at the Bard Graduate Center. Presented in partnership with WOPHA (Women Photographers International Archive).