About

Received B.A. in Ethnic Arts from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA. Have taught at Columbia University and Rutgers University. Author of Homosexuality in Art (2002) and Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten (2006).

Research interests

The intersection of race, gender, and queer sexuality matters in the art of the 19th Century (European) and the art and visual culture of the black diaspora.

Teaching interests

19th-century art and visual culture
Contemporary Art of the Non-Western World
History of Design
Visual Culture of the Black Diaspora
Black, Queer, Feminist Film

Education

  • Ph D, Art HistoryUnversity of California, Los Angeles (1991)
    Esclave, Nègre, Noir: The Representation of Blacks in Late 18th- and 19th-Century French Art
  • MA, Art HistoryUnversity of California, Los Angeles (1986)
    Women, Children, and Ideology in the Works of William-Adolphe Bouguereau
  • BA, Ethnic Arts (World Arts and Cultures)Unversity of California, Los Angeles (1981)
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