PROF ERICA MOIAH JAMES

BA Honors Urban Studies (Architectural Design), Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (USA); MFA Painting, Midway Studios University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA); PhD Art History, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA).

Prof James is an Art Historian, Curator and Assistant Professor in Art History at the University of Miami (UM), Coral Gables, Florida (USA). Prior to this appointment, James was Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History of Art and the Department of African American Studies Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA), as well as the founding Director and Chief Curator of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas.

Prof James has served as a John Hope Franklin Fellow at Duke University; a Clark Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA); a post-doctoral teaching fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri (USA); and as a humanities fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale.

Prof James’s writing, research, teaching and curatorial work focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Global Caribbean, African and African American Diasporas. James has published widely, including ‘Charles White’s J’Accuse! and the Limits of Universal Blackness’, Archives of American Art Journal 55(2)(2016); ‘Every Nigger is a Star; Re-imaging Blackness from Post Civil Rights America to the Post-Independence Caribbean’, Black Camera 8(1) (2016); ‘Decolonizing Time: Nineteenth Century Haitian Portraiture and the Critique of Anachronism in Caribbean Art’, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 44 (2019); James was a contributing author to Ricardo Brey: Adrift (MER Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2019); and Juan Francisco Elso: Essays on América (El Museo del Barrio, 2023). Forthcoming publications include After Caliban: Caribbean Art in the Global Imaginary (Duke University Press).

Prof Erica Moiah James joined VIAD in 2019.