Alba Menéndez Pereda

Coordinator, Andean Working Group; Ph.D. Candidate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Department: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
albamenendez@ucla.edu
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Alba Menéndez Pereda is a doctoral candidate in the Interdepartmental Archaeology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles and a co-organizer of the Andean Working Group since 2020. Alba's research examines the making and experiencing of sacredness at the heart of the Inca Empire from imperial Inca times through the early modern period. She brings together architectural, artistic, and documentary evidence to reconstruct the spatial and experiential characteristics of the Coricancha, the most important religious center in the Andes during this period. Her scholarship has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Society for Architectural Historians, the Huntington, and the John Carter Brown Library, among others.