Speakers
- Cheryl Finley
- Cornell University
Trained in the History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University, Cheryl Finley is Associate Professor and Director of Visual Studies in the Department of the History of Art at Cornell University. Her current project, Re-Imagining the Grand Tour: Routes/Roots of Contemporary African Diaspora Art, examines the global art economy, focusing upon artists, museums, pedagogy, biennials and tourism. A longtime scholar of travel, tourism and migration, Dr. Finley is also engaged in the collaborative project Visualizing Travel, Gendering the African Diaspora with Leigh Raiford (UC Berkeley) and Heike Raphael-Hernandez (U. Wurtzburg) funded by the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. Finley’s research has been supported by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the Ford Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.