contributors VANESSA AGARD-JONES is an Society, Current Anthropology, and other NijAH CuNNiNGHAm specializes NADIA ELLIS is an associate assistant professor of Anthropology at journals and collections. He is currently in African American and African diasporic professor of English at the University Columbia University, where she serves completing a new book, “There’s a literature and his fields of interest include of California, Berkeley. She specializes on the Executive Council of the Institute discoball Between US: Ethnography of an black studies, performance studies, in African diasporic, Caribbean, and for Research on Women, Gender, and Idea” and beginning research on a third visual culture, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial literatures and cultures. Her Sexuality and is affiliated with the Institute monograph, “Structural Adjustments: postcolonial criticism. Titled “Quiet dawn: book, Territories of the Soul: Queered for Research in African American Studies. Black Survival in the 1980s.” Time, Aesthetics, and the Afterlives of Belonging in the Black Diaspora (2015) She earned her PhD from the joint Black Radicalism,” his current book explores structures of black belonging program in Anthropology and French EWAN AtkINSON was born in project reconsiders the material legacies at the intersection of queer utopianism Studies at New York University and held Barbados in 1975. He received a BFA from of the revolutionary past by exploring and diasporic aesthetics. Published and a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia’s the Atlanta College of Art and an MA in questions of embodied performance, forthcoming essays are on such topics Society of Fellows in the Humanities. She cultural studies from the University of the temporality, and the archive as they relate as sexuality and the archive in postwar is currently writing a book, provisionally West Indies, Cave Hill. He has exhibited to the 1960s. He is currently a Cotsen London, electronic musics and political titled “Body Burdens: Toxic Endurance in regional and international exhibitions, fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows. disaster in Kingston and New Orleans, and decolonial desire in the French including Infinite Islands, at the Brooklyn He is also the coordinator at the Small and performance cultures in contemporary Atlantic,” about the entwining of sexual Museum, New York (2007); the 2010 Axe Project. and in Emancipation-era Jamaica. She and environmental politics in Martinique. Liverpool Biennial; and Wrestling with the teaches classes on postcolonial literature and the city, black diasporic culture, queer Image: Caribbean Interventions, at the Art JEAN-ULRICK DÉsert is a theory, and US immigrant literature. JAFARI S. ALLEN is director of Museum of the Americas, Washington, dC Haitian-born, Berlin-based visual artist. Africana Studies, at the University of (2011). For the past seven years, his work His artworks vary in scale and medium. Miami, where he is also Associate has revolved around a fictional community Well known for his Negerhosen2000 (2003) TERRI FRANCIS is director of the Professor of Anthropology. Allen is the and its residents—the Neighborhood and poetic Goddess Projects (2009–), Black Film Center/Archive and Associate author of ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Project—which explores the development his practice visualizes “conspicuous Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Black Self-Making in Cuba (2011), editor of narrative and character and the invisibility.” He has exhibited at the in The Media School at Indiana University. of “Black/Queer/diaspora,” a special production of meaning. Recent work has Brooklyn Museum, at the Walker Art Her forthcoming book Josephine Baker’s edition of GLQ:A Journal of Lesbian been primarily Web based, appearing Center, and in galleries and public spaces Oppositional Burlesque (Indiana University and Gay Studies; and a number of other in the form of a serialized visual blog in the United States and elsewhere. He is Press) reframes the Parisian entertainer publications in, for example, Small (theneighbourhoodreport.tumblr.com). He a graduate of Cooper Union and Columbia as a pioneer of African American cinema. Axe, American Ethnologist, Cultural is the coordinator of the BFA in studio art University. He represented Haiti and She argues that through a tactic of Anthropology, Souls: A Critical Journal of at Barbados Community College, where Germany at the 10th Havana Biennale “oppositional burlesque” Baker performed Black Politics, Culture, and he cofounded the Punch Creative Arena, (2009) and was commissioned for BIAC, her fractured authorship through reflexive an initiative that aims to foster creative Martinique’s first biennial of contemporary and prismatic cinematic performances, action. art (2013–14). both onscreen and off-screen. Francis is 144 an Indiana University nominee for a 2018 coauthored with Monika Kin Gagnon and Caribbean cultures with an emphasis on Festival in Toronto (2014); and In Another National Endowment for the Arts Summer thirteen artists and curators. literature, visual and performance art, Place, and Here, at the Art Gallery of Stipend for her next book project, “Quilted gender and sexuality studies, and political Greater Victoria, British Columbia (2015). Films: African American Home Movies culture. Her book Masculinity after Trujillo: She is the cofounder of ARC magazine ANDIL GOSINE is an associate and Historical Memory, 1924–1975.” The Politics of Gender in Dominican and works as a full-time freelance graphic professor of cultural studies at the As a Film Quarterly contributing editor, Literature (2014) foregrounds the impact designer. Faculty of Environmental Studies, she published “Cosmologies of Black of U.S. imperialism on dominant notions York University, Toronto. His research Cultural Production: A Conversation with of Dominican masculinity and their has been published in many journals and ERiCA mOiAH jAmES is an Afrosurrealist Filmmaker Christopher reinterpretation by pivotal Dominican anthologies, including Sexualities, Topia, assistant professor in the Department Harris” in the summer 2016. writers, including Hilma Contreras, Marcio Art in America, Caribbean Review of of Art and Art History at the University Veloz Maggiolo, Rita Indiana Hernández, Gender Studies, and International of Miami. Before arriving at Miami, she and Junot Díaz. She is the editor of RiCHARD FuNG is a Trinidadian- Feminist Journal of Politics, and he is the served on the faculty of Yale University a Small Axe dossier dedicated to the born, Toronto-based video artist and author of the monographs Environmental and as founding director and chief curator work and legacy of José E. Muñoz and is cultural critic. Films such as Orientations: Justice and Racism in Canada (2008) of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas currently completing a monograph on Lesbian and Gay Asians (1984) and Dirty and Rescue, and Real Love: Same-Sex (NAGB). Recent articles include “Speaking queer Dominican literature, visual and Laundry (1996) deal with the intersection Desire in International Development in Tongues: Metapictures and the performance art. of race and queer sexualities. Others such (2015). His public artistic practice began discourse of Violence in Caribbean as My Mother’s Place (1990) and Sea in with the presentation of WARdROBES at Art” (Small Axe, 2012); “dreams of the Blood (2000) are auto-ethnographic the New York Fashion Institute of NADiA HuGGiNS is a self-taught Utopia: Sustaining Art Institutions in explorations of gender, race, sexuality, Technology in 2011 and the subsequently photographer from St. Vincent and the Transnational Caribbean” (Open and colonialism. Installation with F-16s, adapted performances (Made in Love); the Grenadines whose primary focus Arts, 2016); “Every Nigger is A Apache Helicopters, and Rock Doves Cutlass; Ohrni; Scrubs; and Rum and is documentary and conceptual Star (1974), Re-imaging Blackness (2003) and Jehad in Motion (2007) are Roti. His work has been exhibited at the photography of and about the Caribbean. from Post Civil Rights America to the documentary video installations on Israel/ Queen’s Museum, O’Born Contemporary, Her work has appeared in several Post Independence Caribbean” (Black Palestine, and Out of the Blue (1991) Gallery 511, and the Art Gallery Ontario. publications, including Pictures from Camera, 2016); “Crisis of Faith: Charles confronts racism and policing in Toronto. His forthcoming solo exhibition Coolie, Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary White’s J’Accuse! (1966) and the Limits His work is widely exhibited and collected Coolie, Viens will open across three gallery Caribbean Photography (2012) and See of Universal Blackness” (Archives of internationally and has been broadcast spaces in Toronto in March 2017. Me Here: A Survey of Contemporary American Art Journal, 2016). Recent in Canada, the United States, and the Self-Portraits from the Caribbean (2014). curatorial projects include Reincarnation, Caribbean. His publications include the She has exhibited work in a number a fifty-year retrospective of the work of R. mAjA HORN is an associate professor much-anthologized 1991 essay “Looking of exhibitions, including Wrestling with Brent Malone (NAGB, 2015), in the department of Spanish and Latin for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay the Image: Caribbean Interventions, in American Cultures at Barnard College. Video Porn” and Thirteen Conversations Washington, dC (2011); Pictures from Her research focuses on Hispanophone on Art and Cultural Race Politics (2002),