CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy
2015
University of Florida
Art History
Dissertation:Unleashing the Black Fantastic: Afrofuturist Feminism in Contemporary Art
Master of Arts
2013
University of Florida
Art History
Thesis: “Re-Visioning the Legacy of Slavery and Emancipation in Artis Lane’s Portrait Bust of Sojourner Truth and Alison Saar’s Swing Low”
Bachelor of Fine Arts
2007
University of Wyoming
Art
Senior Thesis: “Abandoning the Negress and Recovering Laure in Manet’s Olympia”
TEACHING
Fall 2017 – Present Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Fort Valley State University
· African American Art History
· Art History Survey
· Art Appreciation
Fall 2016 Limited-Term Instructor in the Department of Art
University of West Georgia
· History of Western Art I
· Oral Communication in the Visual Arts
Spring 2016 Part-Time Instructor of Art
Georgia Gwinnett College
· Art Appreciation
Fall 2015 Part-Time Assistant Professor of Art History
Kennesaw State University
· Art Since 1900
· Research Methodologies of Art History
· Survey: Renaissance through Modern Art
2014-2015 Teaching Assistant
University of Florida
· Art Appreciation
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic. New York: Routledge Press, 2022.
Refereed Journal Articles
“Analog Girls in a Digital World: Fatimah Tuggar’s Afrofuturist Interventions in the Politics of “Traditional” African Art,” Nka: The Journal of Contemporary African Art33 (Fall 2013): 70-79.
“From the Corner to the Capitol: (re)Visioning the Legacy of Slavery in the Memorial Landscape.” International Review of African American Art. 26.2 (2016): 10-17.
“Afrofuturism and the Technologies of Survival” African Arts 50.4 (Winter 2017): 18-23.
Book Chapter
“Art and Activism as HBCU Tradition.” In The Significant Past, Present, and Future of HBCUs in a Globalizing World.Lenham, MD: Rowman& Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2022.
Exhibition Catalogue Entry
“Alma Thomas.” Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2018.
Book Review
Rebecca Peabody. Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. 9 September 2022. CAA Reviews,http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/4039#.YxtQDXbMKUl.Other Writing
“Teaching with Primary Sources: Benny Andrews Inspires.” Archives of American Art Blog, 22 March 2022. https://www.aaa.si.edu/blog/2022/03/teaching-with-primary-sources-benny-andrews-inspires.
“Alma Thomas Was the Godmother of Afrofuturism.” Harper’s Bazaar,15 March 2022. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a39382593/alma-thomas-was-the-godmother-of-afrofuturism/.
boy. Defending Our Black Sons’ Identity in America. Gainesville, Florida: MTE Publications, 2020.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2021 CAA Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant
2021 Fort Valley State University 15thAnnual Grantsmanship Training and Recognition Institute: Certificate of Recognition for Dedication and Accomplishments in Scholarly Research and Grantsmanship
2021 Archives of American Art's Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop
2021 Art Writing Workshop, a partnership between the International Art Critics Association/USA Section (AICA/USA) and The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
2014 Student Creative Research Best of College Award, University of Florida
2013 University of Florida Doctoral Enhancement Award
2008-2015 McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, Florida Education Fund
2008 National Women’s Study Association-Women of Color Caucus Student Essay Award for “Abandoning the Negress and Recovering Laure in Manet’s Olympia”
EXHIBITION
A Different Mirror: (Re)Imagining Black Womanhood, 2011, Curator, Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA.
CONFERENCES
Papers Presented
“Narratives of Fugitivity: The Quilts of Harriet Powers.” Georgia Association of Historian Conference. February 2021.
“Mammy as (anti)Heroine.” This is America Panel. College Art Association, New York, NY, February 2021.
“Unleashing the Black Fantastic: Afrofuturist Feminism in Contemporary Art.” Keynote Speaker. National Alliance of Artists at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Conference, Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA, 2015.
“Analog Girls in a Digital World: Fatimah Tuggar’s Afrofuturist Interventions in “Traditional” African Art.” Presentation at the Alien Bodies Conference: Race, Space, and Sex in the African Diaspora, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2013.
“A Different Mirror: (Re)Imagining Black Womanhood.” Presentation at the Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA, 2012.
“Tracing African American Geographies through the Oeuvre of Alison Saar.” Presentation at the Southern American Studies Association Biennial Conference: People, Publics, Places of the South, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2011.
“Harriet Tubman’s (Afro)Future.” Presentation at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities: Word/ Image/ Culture, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, 2010.
“Re-visioning the Legacy of Slavery and Emancipation in Artis Lane’s Portrait Bust of Sojourner Truth and Alison Saar’s Swing Low.” Presentation at Many Voices—One Story? Public History Narratives of Native American and African American Histories, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2010.
Panels
“Star Light, Star Bright.” Panel Member. 1014: A Space for Ideas, New York, NY, 2022.
“Artists as Change Agents: The Role of Art in Social Justice Movements.” Moderator of Panel. Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA, 2020.
“Wakanda in the Valley.” Panel Member. Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA, 2018.
“Personal Politics Redux: Artist as Witness, Memory Keeper, and Social Conscience.” Moderator of Artist Panel. University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, 2016.
INVITED TALKS
“Harriet Tubman’s (afro)Future,” Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia, 2022.
“Narratives of Fugitivity,” Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, Georgia, 2021.
“Black Feminist Futures in Art History,” Brooklyn College, New York, NY, 2020.
“Narratives of Fugitivity,” Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2020.
“Narratives of Fugitivity: Harriet Powers,” Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, 2016.
“Unleashing the Black Fantastic: Afrofuturist Feminism in Contemporary Art.”
Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, 2015.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
The Image of the Black in Western Art Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Special Collections, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA
Woodruff Library Archives & Special Collections, Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, GA
Curatorial Archives of the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
College Art Association (CAA)
Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC)
The Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA)
Georgia Association of Historians (GAH)
