Selma Holo is the director of the Fisher Gallery and of USC’s International Museum Institute at the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Prior to her appointment at USC in 1981, she assisted Norton Simon in the development of his museum’s collection of painting and sculpture. She is an expert on Spanish art history and has written on Goya, Picasso, and Ribera and also on the role of museums and their influence on the changing shape of culture in Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, and Brazil. She is the author of Beyond the Prado: Museums and Identity in Post-Franco Spain and has recently published Oaxaca and the Crossroads: Managing Memory, Negotiating Change.