Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Speakers

  • Anna Arabindan-Kesson
  • Princeton University, Assistant Professor

Anna Arabindan-Kesson is an assistant professor of Black Diasporic art with an appointment in the Departments of African American Studies and Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Born in Sri Lanka, and formerly a registered nurse, she lived and worked in Australia, NZ, West Africa and London before completing a PhD at Yale University in African American Studies and the History of Art. Her first book, under contract with Duke University Press is called Black Bodies White Gold: Art, Cotton and Commerce in the Atlantic World.