Sanja Savkić Šebek, PhD
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Sanja Savkić Šebek is an art historian who received her MA and PhD from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where she studied indigenous arts from the Americas. Universidad Nacional awarded her doctoral dissertation on ancient Maya art and architecture with the Alfonso Caso Medal. Sanja was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas – UNAM, the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, and at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (KHI). In Berlin, she also collaborated with the Ethnologisches Museum concerning the exhibition of its Mesoamerican collection at the Humboldt Forum. Presently she is a research associate in the international research group "Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology," and is affiliated to the KHI and Humboldt University Berlin.