Arts Division
PhD Candidate
Graduate
Porter Faculty Services
Visual culture of Africa and its diasporas; French colonialism; memory and the archive(s) of slavery; performance; textiles, clothing and the body.
THI-Moving Image Lab Fellowship, 2024-202.
Multicampus Faculty Working Group Grant, UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), 2019-2020.
Funding for Research Cluster “Feminist Futures in the Indian Ocean,” UC Santa Cruz, The Humanities Institute, 2019-2020.
Visual Studies Travel & Research Grant, UC Santa Cruz, 2019.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Proposal Development, 2019.
"Collective Fabric," UC Art & Design Placemaking Initiative Award, University of California, 2019.
Graduate Student Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art & National Museum of Natural History (joint appointment), 2019.
Art Dean’s Fund for Excellence, UC Santa Cruz, 2018 & 2019.
Jack Handford Award, Costume Society of America, 2018.
Provost Scholarship, The New School, 2014-2016.
LL.M. Scholarship, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, 2012-2013.
Oct-Dec. 2023: Hysteria Kolectiva, curation of collective exhibition of contemporary Mexican art
Matamoros 404 Espacio Transdisciplinario (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Dec. 19th, 2020: Traigo Tu Noche en Mis Venas, art performance - Matamoros 404 Espacio Transdisciplinario (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Dec. 2020: Telar Colectivo, community weaving project and public art installation - Matamoros 404 Espacio Transdisciplinario (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Oct. 31st, 2020: Quemar los Orígenes, Estirar los Hilos de la Memoria, art performance - Pocoapoco Gallery (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Sept. 2019: Collective Fabric, community weaving project and public art installation supported by UC Placemaking Grant - UCSC Arts Division (Santa Cruz, USA)
“Imagining Colonial Motherhood: Métissage, Mother Nation, and Marian(ne) Apparitions in Houat’s Les Marrons (1844),” Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts 41, no. 5 (2024).
"Kaili Chun: The Native Artist as Storyteller and Steward of the Land and the Water," Pacific Arts, 22:1 (2022).
“White Shoals, White Shrouds: Reflections on the Ethics of Looking at Captive Bodies,” Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal, 1:3 (2020).
Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art’s special issue ‘Black Fashion: Art. Pleasure. Politics’ (review), International Journal of Fashion Studies, 4.2 (2017).
“Abuse,” “Bullying,” and “Fear,” in Victims of Style: Critical Cases on the Violence of Fashion, Co-authored with Busch et al., Selfpassage, 2015.
