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
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Ph D, Art History
— Unversity of California, Los Angeles (1991) Esclave, Nègre, Noir: The Representation of Blacks in Late 18th- and 19th-Century French Art
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MA, Art History
— Unversity of California, Los Angeles (1986) Women, Children, and Ideology in the Works of William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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BA, Ethnic Arts (World Arts and Cultures)
— Unversity of California, Los Angeles (1981) N/A
Publications
- A Second Renaissance: Essex Hemphill and the Bridging of Black Gay Identities 2025
- Menace at the Portal: Masculine Desire and the Homoerotics of Orientalism 2016
- Sculpting African Nouveau: Primitivism, Ethnography, and Afro-Kitsch in the Works of Woodrow Nash 2016
- The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art
Presentations
- Queer Links: Art, Gay Networks, and Interracial Sociability in the Harlem Renaissance 2025
- Queer Links: Art, Gay Networks, and Interracial Sociability in the Harlem Renaissance 2025
- Leadership in Higher Education: Past, Present, and Future 2021
Grants and Contracts
- Getty Research Institute/African American Art History Initiative
Courses Taught
- Enlightenment to Modernism