Kaillee Coleman

Kaillee Coleman is a PhD candidate in the joint Latin American Studies and Art History program at Tulane University in New Orleans, where her research focuses on contemporary Caribbean art and cultural production – with special emphasis on the Black Atlantic and Diaspora Studies. She earned a M.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane and holds undergraduate degrees in Art History and Interdisciplinary Art (dual emphasis in Visual Art and Theatre) from Seattle University. From 2021-2022, Kaillee was the recipient of a U.S. Dept. of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship in Haitian Creole. In 2022-2023, she was the recipient of the William J. Griffith Award for an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor in Latin American Studies, awarded by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.

 

Kaillee works as an Associate Editor and Spanish Language Team for Keywords for Black Louisiana. Additionally, she works as a curatorial assistant at the Newcomb Art Museum where she recently curated the exhibition Poetic Gaps: Opacity in the Photographic Imprint. Her PhD dissertation project is entitled “When I Am Not Here, Estoy Allá: Visualizing Expansive Space-Time in Caribbean Diasporic Memory."