Rebecca Yuste

Rebecca entered Columbia’s PhD program in the Fall of 2019. She holds an A.B magna cum laude in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University, where she won the Frederick Barnard White Prize in Architecture. Her dissertation examines botanical gardens in late-Enlightenment New Spain. She is interested in institutions of knowledge and their spatial articulation, and writes about the relationship between the history of science and architecture.

Rebecca has held internships at the Princeton University Art Museum, the Norman Foster Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2021, she served as the Writer in Residence at the Institute for Studies on Latin America Art (ISLAA), where she worked with the Cesar Paternosto Archive. She is currently the Rockefeller Brothers Curatorial Fellow at the Hispanic Society of America.