Kim N. Richter is senior research specialist in the Director’s Office at the Getty Research Institute. She received her Ph.D. in art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in Pre-Columbian art and archaeology. She is author of numerous articles on Huastec art, co-editor of The Huasteca: Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange (2015), co-curator of Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas (2017), and co-editor of the award-winning accompanying Golden Kingdoms catalogue. She leads the collaborative digital initiative focused on the Florentine Codex, an encyclopedic manuscript about Mexica life and culture created in sixteenth-century Mexico, and co-leads the Latin American and Latinx Art Initiative and the Huasteca Mapping Project.
