Sofia Yazpik

Taught 60 undergraduate students per quarter across high-enrollment introductory surveys and specialized upper-division seminars. Prepared discussion content, contextualized lectures, and examined primary and secondary sources from a range of courses, including social, cultural, and intellectual histories of colonial and modern Latin America and early modern Europe. Rigorously focused on research and analytical writing, where I provided students with in-depth feedback, discussion, and line edits to improve critical thinking and writing skills.

Graduate Teaching Assistant - UCLA - Los Angeles, CA

(2023-09 - 2025-12)

Taught 60 undergraduate students per quarter across high-enrollment introductory surveys and specialized upper-division seminars. Prepared discussion content, contextualized lectures, and examined primary and secondary sources from a range of courses, including social, cultural, and intellectual histories of colonial and modern Latin America and early modern Europe. Rigorously focused on research and analytical writing, where I provided students with in-depth feedback, discussion, and line edits to improve critical thinking and writing skills.

• HIST 8A, Colonial Latin America, Fall 2025
• HIST 2C, The Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics and Witches, Summer 2025
• HIST 8C, Contemporary Latin American Film and Culture, Spring 2025
• HIST 161, The Mexican Revolution, Winter 2025
• HIST 1B, Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa 843 to circa 1715, Fall 2024
• HIST 2C, The Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics and Witches, Spring 2024
• HIST 8B, Modern Latin America, Winter 2024
• HIST 8A, Colonial Latin America, Fall 2023

Graduate Assistant to the Head Editor - Hispanic American Historical Review Journal

(2026-01 - 2026-08)

• Researched and wrote blogs on published journal articles and endangered archives
• Conducted interviews for scholars' published works
• Updated HAHR website to incorporate alternative text descriptions

Staff Member - The Contemporary Austin Museum of Art - Austin, TX

(2019-01 - 2022-12)

• Translated texts from English to Spanish for the Curatorial and Education departments
• Team leader in coordinating events and performances
• Marketed and sold museum memberships and merchandise
• Responsible for onboarding new employees
• Front-line expert for facilitating exceptional visitor experience

Curatorial Intern - Mexic-Arte Museum - Austin, TX

(2021-06 - 2021-08)

• Curatorial intern working directly with the curator
• Researched and created didactic labels focused on providing ethnographic histories for exhibitions showcasing Indigenous traditions in the Americas

Intern at the Mesoamerica Center - UT Austin Pre-Hispanic Art Collection - Austin, TX

(2018-01 - 2019-12)

• Intern at the Mesoamerica Center working with the assistant director
• Responsible for organizing, cataloguing, and archiving Andean ceramics and textiles from different communities in Guatemala
• Created an accessible bibliographic digital library for future scholars researching the textiles collection
• Assisted with events related to the Mesoamerica Center, including the Maya Meetings
• Coordinated for my K'iche' Maya-language class to view the collection, allowing the Nahualá instructor and his wife to discuss their town-specific weaving traditions

Intern - Galleria Russo - Rome, Italy

(2018-06 - 2018-08)

• Interned at a Modern and Contemporary Art gallery in Rome, Italy
• Assisted with installing exhibitions, cataloguing artworks, and transporting artworks for restoration
• Responsible for translating artist biographies, artwork labels, and gallery website from Italian to English

Undergraduate Curatorial Intern - The Blanton Museum of Art, Department of Latin American Art - Austin, TX

(2016-09 - 2017-12)

• Undergraduate curatorial intern working with the curator and assistant curator
• Compiled, expanded, and archived files from past exhibitions and showcased artists
• Underwent art historical research to write artist biographies and artwork labels for upcoming exhibitions
• Contacted museums in Latin America to provide further archival information regarding exhibitions and artists

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - UT Austin - Austin, TX

(2017-09 - 2017-12)

• ART HIST, UGS, Fall 2017

PhD - History - University of California, Los Angeles (2022-09)

MA - History - University of California, Los Angeles (2025-06)

Certificate - Early Modern Studies - University of California, Los Angeles (2022-09 - 2023-06)

BA - Art History - University of Texas at Austin (2015-09 - 2018-05)

Austin Community College (2014-09 - 2015-05)