As a historian of African American art and visual culture, I think broadly across chronological and visual spheres to consider the intersections of race, gender, and class in artistic production. I am an Associate Professor of African American Art at Vanderbilt University where I am also affiliated faculty with the Department of African Diasporic and African American Studies and the Program of American Studies.

As an undergraduate I discovered the power of art history as a vehicle to study culture. I received an A.B. in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University before obtaining my M.A. and Ph.D. in Art, Art History, and Visual Studies from Duke University. At Duke I also pursued a graduate certificate in African American Studies.

My path to the professoriate was made possible by generous support from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program and the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute Fellowship Program. I am grateful for the awards and fellowships I have received in support of my research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Society for the Preservation of American Modernists, the Lunder Institute for the Study of American Art at Colby College Museum of Art, the College Art Association, the American Council of Learned Societies/Henry Luce Foundation, and others.