Rosario Nava Román holds a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in Art History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the same university. Rosario Nava is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Dr. José María Luis Mora Research Institute, where she is developing the project "African Diaspora: Studying the Past, Improving the Present and Preparing the Future". Since 2019, she has been a professor at the National School of Painting and Sculpture "La Esmeralda", where she is in charge of the pre-Hispanic Art Seminar and the "Historical Reflection of the Phenomenon of Racism in Mexico".
Professor Román has focused her work on the study of the color black as a symbol of power in the Mesoamerican world. Her analysis has explored the uses and functions of this color in body painting, as well as in pre-Hispanic and colonial codex in Mexico.
