On leave from Cornell University, where she is Associate Professor of Art History, Dr. She is a curator, contemporary art critic and award-winning author noted for Committed to Memory: the Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton UP, 2018), the first in depth study of the most famous image associated with the memory of slavery-a schematic engraving of a packed slave ship hold-and the art, architecture, poetry, and film it has inspired since its creation in Britain in 1788. in African American Studies and History of Art from Yale University. A visionary leader committed to engaging strategic partners to transform the art and culture industry, she leads an innovative undergraduate program at the world’s largest HBCU consortium in preparing the next generation of African American museum and visual arts professionals. She is Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at Spelman College.
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