Art historian and researcher of Andean cultures, specializing in Tiwanaku and San Pedro de Atacama. His work is fundamental to the study of visionary plants in archaeological contexts.

Constantino Manuel Torres has conducted research on ancient cultures of the South-Central Andes since 1982. His work has focused on the oases of San Pedro de Atacama. Torres is also involved in the study of Tiwanaku art, the most important pre-Incan Andean civilization.

His books include Anadenanthera: Visionary Plant of Ancient South America (2006), a comprehensive and detailed study of this sacred plant, whose ritual use has been well documented for at least 4,000 years. She has published numerous articles on the ancestral cultures of Atacama and Bolivia in journals in Chile, the United States, and Europe. Torres has received three Fulbright Scholarships for the study of pre-Columbian art.

Dr. Torres is professor emeritus of art history at Florida International University in Miami. He teaches courses on Pre-Columbian Andean Art, Art and Shamanism, Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Art, and Art and Identity Issues, among others.