Laura Eliza Enríquez is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Program in (HUMA) at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) at Concordia University, Montreal, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of the sense of taste in early modern Dutch art in a global perspective.

From 2018 to 2021, Laura served as the Coordinator of Concordia’s Centre for Sensory Studies. She has also taught a series undergraduate courses at Concordia University and McGill University, such as Global Early Modern Art and Food Studies. Her syllabi addresses current scholarship from a critical, post-colonial standpoint. This includes current directions in material and sensory studies, artisanal epistemologies, and the intersections between, food, art, world- and knowledge-making.

Laura recently relocated to Boston to take up the position of Research Fellow at the MFA’s Centre for Netherlandish Art (CNA). During her appointment, Laura will continue to work on her project on taste and the senses, focusing on selected paintings and decorative artifacts in the collection.