Rate My Professor Peter Szok

Szok has published several key books that illuminate the interplay of art, politics, and identity in Panama and beyond. These include Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama (University Press of Mississippi, 2025), Restaurantes, rumba y más: Gringo’s Guide to Latino Fort Worth (TCU Press, 2014), Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama (University Press of Mississippi, 2012), and La última gaviota: Liberalism and Nostalgia in Early Twentieth-Century Panama (Greenwood, 2001). He also developed the Náñez-Woodward Collection of Panamanian Popular Art (2022), comprising 1000 digitized photographs housed in the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries Digital Library of the Caribbean. His scholarly impact is evidenced by major awards and fellowships, such as Fulbright grants (2008, 2015-17), Fulbright-Hays awards (1993, 2002), the Parsons Award from the U.S. Library of Congress (2017), the University of Florida Latin American Studies Research Award (2016), AddRan Distinguished Lecture (2012), and AM Pate, Jr. Research Professorships (2014-15, 2025-26).