Education

2005 Bard College, B.A.
2013 Florida State University, M.A.
2018 Florida State University, Ph.D.
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Courses Taught

Introduction to Museum Studies
Museum Practicum II & III
Modern Art
Contemporary Art & Theory
Where Are We Now? (Honors Program)

Career Specialties

Wolff's areas of academic interest include Latin@/e and Latin American art, Curatorial Studies, Food Studies and Global Contemporary Art. Her scholarship focuses on the art of the Americas, particularly at the intersection of visual culture and food in 20th and 21st century Mexico, the Caribbean and the U.S.

Professional and Community Activities

Wolff is the author of 'Culinary Palettes: The Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art' (University of Texas Press, 2025) and co-editor of 'Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art' (Yale University Press, 2024; available via A&AePortal). Wolff is also co-editor of the special journal issue of 'Arts' dedicated to 'Rethinking Contemporary Latin American Art' and editor of the exhibition catalogue 'The Kingdom of This World, Reimagined' (Carlow University Press, 2024). Her scholarship has been published in various international journals, including 'Gender & History,' 'Humanities,' 'International Journal of Heritage Studies,' 'African and Black Diaspora, 'Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture' and 'Food, Culture, & Society,' and she regularly participates in peer-reviewed conferences in the fields of art history, food studies and heritage studies.  

Wolff is also an active curator committed to revisionist art histories of the Americas. Her past exhibitions include 'The Kingdom of This World, Reimagined' (traveling exhibition, 2019-2024); 'Layered Voices: Process and Paper in Contemporary Native American Art' (Texas Tech University,  2020); 'Decolonizing Refinement: Contemporary Pursuits in the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié' (Florida State University, 2018); and 'As Cosmopolitans and Strangers: Mexican Art of the Jewish Diaspora' (National Museum of Mexican Art, 2014), among others. Her latest exhibition, 'Raíces/Roots: Camilo Loaiza Bonilla,' will open at UT's Scarfone/Hartley Gallery in Fall 2025.  

Wolff also holds significant appointments in her field, serving as an Executive Officer in the Association for Latin American Art since 2020, and as an Area Editor for the new Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies.   

Honors and Awards

SELECT HONORS AND AWARDS:

2024 Outstanding Faculty Member in Scholarship/Creative Work, College of Arts and Letters, University of Tampa
2021 William R. Levin Award for Research in the History of Art (since 1750), Southeastern College Art Conference
2020 Excellence in the Field Award, Texas Association of Schools of Art
2020 Honorable Mention, Best Essay in Latin American Visual Culture Studies, Latin American Studies Association
2019/20 Tyson Scholar of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
2019/20 Research Fellowship in the Humanities, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin