Jacqueline Francis, PhD, is an art historian specializing in U.S. art of the twentieth century and contemporary African Diaspora art. Her articles and reviews have been published in Radical History Review, American Art, Third Text, and other scholarly journals. Her book, Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America, is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press. She is a co-editor of Romare Bearden: American Modernist, an anthology forthcoming from Yale University Press. She serves on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association, an international organization serving students and professionals working in the visual arts.

She has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Michigan, San Francisco State University, and Stanford University.

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Senior Lecturer, Visual and Critical Studies

BA, Dartmouth College; MA, University of Wisconsin; PhD, Emory University.

Contact: jfrancis@cca.edu