Modern and Contemporary African & African Diasporic Art
Zamansele Nsele is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary African & African Diasporic Art. She is currently working on her first monograph, provisionally titled, “Reckoning with Post-Apartheid & Imperialist Nostalgias in Archival Art Practice in Africa”. In the monograph, Zamansele Nsele explores how nostalgia can generate visual epistemologies that sanitize, disavow, and aestheticize oppressive racial histories— despite nostalgia’s conventional significance as an affective structure that affirms Black social life. One of the central themes that is...
Todd Olson is the author of Poussin and France: Painting, Humanism and the Politics of Style (Yale University Press, 2002) and Caravaggio’s Pitiful Relics (Yale University Press, 2014). His fields of research and teaching include early modern Europe, colonial Latin America, and the trans-Atlantic world. His main areas of interest are class and sexuality in visual representation, transcultural materiality, history of art criticism and theory, and the politics of collecting. He has two books in progress: Survivals: The Migration and Transmission of Graphic Media in...
The Material Culture of the Ancient Mediterranean, Etruscan and Roman Art
Lisa C. Pieraccini works on the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean with special emphasis on ancient Italy. She taught and conducted research in Rome and southern Etruria for several years. Her interests in ancient Mediterranean art reflect global and cross disciplinary approaches to understanding the past. Issues related to decolonization and indigeneity as well as reception studies, digital humanities, cultural heritage and antiquity in film are just some of the subjects explored in her courses. Dr. Pieraccini has published a variety of articles and book chapters on a wide...
Trained in both history (Presidency College; Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) and art history (Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda; University of Minnesota), Sugata Ray’s research is on post-1400s art and architecture in South Asia with a focus on climate change and the environment, postcolonial geophilosophy, and posthumanist thought before colonial modernity. His first book Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–...
