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Specialization:
Decolonization; Colonization; Afro-American Visual Culture; Latin American Racialization; Racial Identity Formation; Critical Theory; Museum Studies; Cultural Heritage
Education:
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
M.L.A. University of Pennsylvania
B.A. The Pennsylvania State University
Bio:
Brisa Smith Flores explores how visual culture impacts socio-racial identity formation and transnational solidarity movements across the African diaspora. She is interested in the ways that art and art spaces are active agents in the construction of political thought, societal norms, and individual perceptions of the self and others.
Smith Flores is currently working on her book manuscript entitled, “Visualizing Afro-Latinidad: Afro-Diasporic Agency in Representation and Visual Culture.” This manuscript explores questions of Afro-Diasporic identity, race and placemaking across the Americas, and the roll of art and art spaces in challenging colonial violence.
Smith Flores was a UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. She has also earned the Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship of American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. She has worked at notable institutions like the Dallas Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Getty Research Institute. She also produces a YouTube Channel to make higher education more accessible.