Dr. Carol Damian is the former Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Art History and the former Director and Chief Curator of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (2008-2014) (retired).

She is a graduate of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., and received her MA in Pre-Columbian Art and her Ph. D. in Latin American History from the University of Miami. A specialist in Latin American and Caribbean Art, her most recent work has been with Latin American Women and Cuban exile artists, for whom she has written numerous catalogs and articles.

She is the Curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Freedom Tower and the Curator of the Chapel of LaMerced at Corpus Christi Church. She is the author of The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco (Grassfield Press, 1995), lectures frequently on Latin American and Caribbean art and has curated numerous exhibitions.