Jacqueline Francis

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 also is an editor of American Collection: Selected Works from the Norton Gallery of Art (1995) and the African-American National Biography (2007).

In recent years, she has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin (“What Is African Diaspora Art History to Me?”), Howard University (” ‘We Can Afford the Truth’: Towards a Critical Race Art History”), the University of Delaware Museums (“Picturing Power: Jacob Lawrence, Laylah Ali, Kojo Griffin”), and the National Gallery of Art (“Collecting African-American Art: An Overview”).

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.

Senior Lecturer, Visual and Critical Studies

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

Contact: jfrancis@cca.edu