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Kristen Laciste

Assistant Professor, Historian of African Art and Visual Culture at the State University of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology.
Contemporary Art from Africa and the African Diaspora
Email: 
klaciste@ucsc.edu
Research Interests: 

The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons (La SAPE), Black Dandyism, Afrofuturism, Transatlantic Slavery and Slave Trade, Apartheid in South Africa, Museum Studies, British Victorianism

Selected Publications: 

New Media Review of To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes, ed. Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers and Deborah Willis.Visual Studies (2022).

“Writing with Others.” African Arts 55, no. 2 (2022).

“In Conversation with Erick Msumanje and Alexis Hithe.” Authored with Erick Msumanje and Alexis Hithe. Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (2018).

 

Selected Presentations: 

  “You Eat Money from La SAPE: Conversations with Women Sapeurs in Kinshasa Democratic Republic of Congo.” Presentation.” Presentation the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 6, 2020.

“Pragmatic Work: Women Sapeurs in Kinshasa Democratic Republic of Congo.” Presentation at the Getty Graduate Symposium, Los Angeles, February 1, 2020.

“Chronicle of a Death Retold: Yinka Shonibare’s Alternative Narrative of the Legacy of Horatio Nelson.” African Studies Association, Chicago, November 16-18, 2017.

"From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle." Early Modern Center, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), April 21-22, 2017.

Honors and Awards: 

2023

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Smarthistory

2022

UCSC Graduate Dean’s Research and Travel Grant

UCSC Visual Studies Research and Travel Grant

2021

UCSC Visual Studies Research and Travel Grant

UCSC Dissertation Quarter Fellowship (2 quarters)

UCSC Graduate Student Association Cultivation Grant

UCSC COVID Research Fellowship

2020

National Humanities Center Virtual Graduate Student Summer Residency Program

UCSC Visual Studies Research and Travel Grant

UCSC Graduate Dean’s Research and Travel Grant

2019

UCSC Visual Studies Research and Travel Grant                

2018

UCSC Graduate Student Association Research and Travel Grant  

UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship

2017

Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program Fellowship

UCSC Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence Award

2015

UCSC Regents Fellowship

Education and Training: 
Ph.D. in Visual Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
M.A. in Visual Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A. in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, Magna Cum Laude, Departmental Highest Honors
B.A. in Art, University of California, Los Angeles, Cum Laude