Degrees

• A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe College, Women’s Studies and Afro-American Studdies, 1999
• Ph.D., Harvard University, African and African American Studies, 2009

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2012-
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2009-2012
• Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 2005-2009

Distinctions

• Harvard University Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2008-2009
• W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Fellowship, 2007-2008
• Derek Bok Distinction in Teaching Award, 2006
• Ramroop Prize, 2006
• Alain Locke Prize for Highest Achievement in African American Studies, Harvard-Radcliffe College, 1999

Languages

• French
• Spanish

Related Experience

• Head Teaching Fellow, African and African Studies Program, Harvard University, 2006, 2007
• Coordinator, A.B. Thesis Writing Workshop, Department of African and African American Studies Program, Harvard University, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
• Research Assistant, Harvard University, 2005

Selected Publications

• 2020. "Miscegenation in Marble: John Bell's Octoroon" The Art Bulletin. Vol. 102, No. 2 pp. 64-99.
• 2017. Colouring the Caribbean: Race and the art of Agostino Brunias. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• 2017. “The Great Colonial Minstrel Show: Reconsidering Africa in the Art of Palmer Hayden,” Nka:Journal of Contemporary African Art, pp. 14-29.
• 2014. “Loner in the Dark: The Singular Vision of Norman Lewis and the Evidence of Things Unseen.” In Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis. Norman Kleeblatt, ed. New York: Jewish Museum/Yale University Press.
• 2013. “Reimagining Race, Class, and Identity in the New World.” In Behind Closed Doors: Power and Privilige at Home in Colonial Latin America. Richard Aste, ed. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum.