• Anna Arabindan-Kesson
• Associate professor of Black Diasporic Art
• Princeton University

Anna Arabindan-Kesson is Associate professor of Black Diasporic art, jointly appointed in the Departments of African American Studies and Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Anna focuses on the visual histories of race, empire, migration and medicine across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans in long 19th century along with their contemporary legacies. Her award-winning first book is Black Bodies White Gold: Art, Cotton and Commerce in the Atlantic World (Duke University Press, 2021). Two other books – one on 19th Century Black diaspora art, and another on plantations and medicine are under contract with Routledge and Duke University Press. She is a Fellow of the Society of The American Academy in Rome, a Senior Research Fellow of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the director of the digital humanities project Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism www.artandcolonialmedicine.com. A list of her projects can be found at www.annaarabindakesson.com