Select Lectures & Presentations 

2023 Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboration — Critical Making & Social Justice Conference, Brooklyn, New York

"Dear Readers Beyond Bars: Explicit!”

2023 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY

“How Not to Reproduce the White Body Politic?: An Intersectional Analysis of Martha Rosler’s Vital Statics of A Citizen Simply Obtained”

2021 Master Series, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

“Reginald Gammon: Notes on Assembly”

2021 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY

“Securitizing American Sight –Crystal Z. Campbell’s Model Citizen: Here I Stand” 

2019 Association of the Study of Arts of the Present, College Park, MD

“Weaponizing & Witnessing Vulnerability: Antonio Salemme’s Negro Spiritual”

2019 Pratt Libraries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

“Learn Something New: A Panel on Research Practice Across the Disciplines”

2019 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY 

Chair: “Race, Vision, and Surveillance” panel

“Marisa Williamson’s Among ghosts and other unseen subjects: A portrait of Sally Hemings

2017 Southeastern College Art Conference, Columbus, OH

“Reframing Resistance & Surveillance: Lorraine O’Grady’s Art Is…”

2017 Newberry Library Seminar on American Art and Visual Culture Series, Newberry Library, IL

“Bringing the Movement Home: Kerry James Marshall’s Souvenir and Its Immanent Critique”

2017 National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, 40 Years after Combahee: Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movement for Black Lives, Baltimore, MD

“Fictions that Refract: Cheryl Dunye’s and Zoe Leonard’s Civil Rights Era Lesbian”

2016 Whitney Independent Study Program: Critical Studies Symposium

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

“Mine the Gaps: Subliminal Civil Rights Struggle in Lorraine O’Grady’s Art Is…”

2015      Black Metropolis Research Consortium Symposium, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL

“Mediating the Civil Rights Movement: Kerry James Marshall’s Souvenir Paintings & Chicago Journalism”

2015 Black Arts Initiative Conference: Black Arts United States: Institutions and Interventions, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

“Angela Libre: A Matrix of Mass Cultural Expression”

 2013 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

Sincerely Yours Curators’ Tour at Special Event

2012 Convergence: The Geo/Body Politics of Emancipation, Colloquium, Duke University, Durham NC

“Interrogating Fantasy: Cultural Logic and Belief in the Art of Tracey Rose”