Clara Bargellini received her PhD from Harvard University. She is a Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the National University in Mexico City. Among her publications are The Arts of the Mission of Northern New Spain (2009) and numerous articles on specific buildings and art works of the region, as well as Historia y arte en un pueblo rural: San Bartolomé, hoy Vallede Allende, Chihuahua (1998).