Jaques Ranciére (2009b) argues that if there is a political question in contemporary art, ‘…it will be grasped through the analysis of the metamorphoses of the political ‘third’, the politics founded on the play of exchanges and displacements between the art world and that of no…
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There has been a relatively recent rehabilitation of the visual in the study of Jewish culture, mostly in terms of the study of images and attitudes towards them. This thesis extends the recognition of the importance of visuality in Jewish studies by treating vision itself as a …
My dissertation explores the changing status of objects and architecture in Mali through an examination of three case studies: the traditional sculpture of the Bamana Jo society, the Musée National du Mali, and the historic site of Hamdallaye, the 19th century capital of the Isl…
In Labor, Race & Visuality in Argentina’s Sugar Industry 1868-1904 I examine the relationship between racialization and mechanization in the growing sugar industry in Argentina’s northern province of Tucuman in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I argue that the …
This dissertation examines the relationality of dispossession, racialization, and migration in Detroit, connecting the neoliberal rationality of (re)development to its foundations in Indigenous dispossession and racialized labor. "(Sī'tĭng) Detroit" understands Detroit as a bord…