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”