Speakers
- Jordan Mayfield
- Columbia University, Ph.D. Student
Jordan Mason Mayfield is an Art History Ph.D. student at Columbia University. She is an alumna of Wellesley College and received her Bachelor’s in Art History. Her research focuses on the intersections of spirituality, Black feminism, Queerness, and sexuality in contemporary Afro-Atlantic art. Jordan’s senior undergraduate thesis, “Divine Reflections: Embodying Erzulie, Yemaya and Black Womanhood,” examined the evocation of Afro-Atlantic female deities as archetypes of Black female identity in the works of Renee Stout and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons.