Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Anna Arabindan-Kesson is an Assistant Professor of African American and Black Diasporic art at Princeton University. She specialises in African American, Caribbean, and British Art, with an emphasis on histories of race, empire, and transatlantic visual culture. Her research focuses on processes of cultural exchange and geographical movement, underpinned by histories of colonialism, and the legacies of these encounters in contemporary art practice. Prior to her appointment at Princeton in 2015...See more

Anna Arabindan-Kesson is an Assistant Professor of African American and Black Diasporic art at Princeton University. She specialises in African American, Caribbean, and British Art, with an emphasis on histories of race, empire, and transatlantic visual culture. Her research focuses on processes of cultural exchange and geographical movement, underpinned by histories of colonialism, and the legacies of these encounters in contemporary art practice. Prior to her appointment at Princeton in 2015 she was Assistant Professor of American Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, and Teaching Fellow at Yale. She has presented papers on Pollard's work at conferences at Yale, University of Sydney, NYU, and University of Central Lancashire. See less