Speakers
- Emilie Boone
- Metropolitan Museum of Art/CUNY New York City College of Technology
Emilie C. Boone is an Assistant Professor of Art History at CUNY New York City College of Technology. As the 2018-2019 Chester Dale Fellow in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she is advancing her book project on the photographs of James Van Der Zee. Her research focuses on the art and photography of the African Diaspora, with particular interests in the photography of the United States and the Caribbean. Boone’s appointment at CUNY New York City College of Technology followed a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Williams College Museum of Art and the completion of her PhD in Northwestern University’s Department of Art History and Master’s in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis.