Anthony Meyer is an art historian of the Ancestral and Early Modern Americas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, where where he led several research initiatives, including the Indigenous Material and Visual Culture of the Americas (1400-1700) working group in the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the Architecture Lab at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. His primary research navigates the crossroads between Nahua art, language, and religion in the Mexica Empire (1325 – 1521 C.E.) and the sixteenth-century transatlantic world of New Spain.

As an emerging scholar, Meyer has participated in several international and interdisciplinary research projects, including Early Modern Conversions and Making Worlds. He also serves on both the Strategic Planning Committee with the Society for Architectural Historians and the caa.reviews Editorial Board with the College Art Association. Currently, Meyer is the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, and beginning in September 2025, he will be an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.