NEW YORK, NY.- Hunter College has named Harper Montgomery, one of the nation’s leading experts in Latin American art, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor in Latin American Art. Dr. Montgomery will join Hunter in the fall of 2011. The appointment is part of a newly formed partnership between Hunter and the Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) that is expected to have a transformative impact on Latin American art scholarship at Hunter. The partnership gives Hunter full access to artworks from the collection, archival materials and curatorial research that will enable the college to create new courses in Latin American and Caribbean art for both undergraduate and graduate students. These resources will also be made available to the Hunter College Art Galleries for study, exhibition, and publication. Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab said: “After an extensive international ta