Ashley Mayor
Ashley Oliva Mayor is a public historian and museum professional with almost a decade of experience working with cultural institutions. She currently works as a curatorial associate of Latinx music and culture in the Division of Culture and the Arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She is part of the curatorial team for the landmark bilingual exhibition, Entertainment Nation/Nación del espectáculo, which opened in December 2022. Her research interests include Latinx, Afro-Latinx, and Latin American music and performance traditions, popular culture, public history, as well as American social and cultural history. Ashley has contributed to various exhibition and programmatic projects across the Smithsonian Institution at the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of the American Latino, the National Museum of Natural History, among others. She is the co-director of the Hasta ‘Bajo Project, a non-profit community archive dedicated to preserving the history of reggaetón music in Puerto Rico.
Ashley received a BA in International Studies with a minor in Classical Studies in 2014 from the University of Florida. She also holds a master’s degree from George Washington University and is working on her PhD in History at Georgetown University.