Karla Cavarra Britton

Karla Cavarra Britton is professor of art history at Diné College, the Navajo Nation’s tribal college. An architectural historian, she addresses, in her teaching and publications, contemporary sacred architecture and North American Native art. She oversees grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Mellon Foundation, as well as ArtPlace America in partnership with the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute at the University of New Mexico.

Britton received her PhD from Harvard University, and has taught at Yale, Columbia, and the University of New Mexico. She was a resident fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton.