Associate Professor, Art History
Associate Professor, American Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
• Accepting Ph.D. students
American art and visual culture, photography and race/racial difference, the Harlem/Negro Renaissance and WPA art; satire, caricature, stereotype, and appropriation in art and visual culture
Current projects
“Farm Security Administration Photography and Black Modernism” Source: Notes in the History of Art (Fall 2026)
“Narratives of Black Atlanta and Black Capitalism in Emma Amos’s Odyssey (1988)” in Rachel Stephens, ed., Reading Southern Art (University of Arkansas Press)
“Joyce J. Scott’s Dissolving Memorial to Harriet Tubman” in Edward Chambers, ed., Practices in African American Art (Routledge, 2027)
“Hidden Photographs in Romare Bearden’s Early Work” (under review)
“Photographic Details: Source and Process in Black Modernism” (book in progress)
“‘Comedy, Pathos, Delight, and Horror:’ Satire in the Work of Joyce J. Scott” Woman’s Art Journal 45, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2024): 15-25.
“Notes from a Scholar: Jacob Lawrence’s Christmas in Harlem (1937),” New York: Schoelkopf Gallery, 2024.
“Emma Amos’s Foundations in London” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2022, no. 50 (May 2022): 116-131.
“Photographic Disruption in the Work of Emma Amos” in Shawnya L. Harris, ed., Emma Amos: Color Odyssey (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, 2021), 63-73.
“The Enduring Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance” in Edward Chambers, ed., Routledge Companion to African American Art (New York: Routledge, 2019), 27-40.
Interview: “‘I Wish to Reveal’: A Conversation with Joyce J. Scott,” online exhibition catalogue, “Fragments of a Crucifixion,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, May 2019, https://mcachicago.org/publications/websites/fragments-of-a-crucifixion#jjs_pw
“Love and Theft in the Art of Emma Amos,” Archives of American Art Journal 55, no. 2 (Fall 2016): 46-65.
“Caricature and the New Negro in the Work of Archibald Motley, Jr. and Palmer Hayden” Art Bulletin 91, no. 3 (September 2009): 343-365.
Research Fellowship, College of Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI), Indiana University, Fall 2025
Writing and Publishing Seminar and Grant, Photography Network, Summer 2025
Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University, Spring 2019, Spring 2023, Spring 2025
Conference Grant, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Indiana University, Fall 2024
Dean’s Department Hero Award, Department of American Studies, Indiana University, Summer 2024
College of Arts and Sciences Career Connections Fellowship Program, Indiana University, Fall 2023
Lilly Foundation Award, Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Inc. Grant, IU’s Platform Arts and Humanities Laboratory Award, IU’s Institute for Advanced Study Collaborative Research Award, and Indiana University’s Arts and Humanities Council Grant, for exhibition “Unmasked: The Anti-Lynching Exhibits of 1935 and Methods of Public Community Remembrance,” with Drs. Alex Lichtenstein and Rasul Mowatt, 2022-2025
Research Travel Grant, College Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI), Indiana University, 2022-2023
Institute for Advanced Study, Bloomington Symposia on Migration, Indiana University, 2021-2022
Institute for Advanced Study, Recently Tenured Faculty Working Group, Indiana University, 2021-2022
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Summer 2021
The College of Arts