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Research Interests
Professor Thompson researches and teaches modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora and the Caribbean, with an emphasis on photography.
Education/Academic qualification
Culture, History, Theory, PhD, Emory University
… → 2002
Art History, MA, Emory University
… → 1999
Art History, BA, McGill University
… → 1995
Research interests keywords
- Africa diaspora
- Colonial Bahamas
- Photography
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Grants
- 3 Finished
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CIC-Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow
Thompson, K. A. (PD/PI)
9/1/13 → 8/31/14
Project: Research project
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Kaplan Center Initiatives II - Area III - Out of Sight: New World Slavery and the Visual Imagination
Thompson, K. A. (PD/PI) & Foeller-Pituch, E. (Co-PD/PI)
8/1/05 → 7/31/08
Project: Research project
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Kaplan Center Initiatives II - Area III - Out of Sight: New World Slavery and the Visual Imagination
Thompson, K. A. (PD/PI) & Foeller-Pituch, E. (Co-PD/PI)
8/1/05 → 7/31/08
Project: Research project
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Castleton Gardens, 1908
Thompson, K. A., 2018, Victorian Jamaica. Barringer , T. (ed.). Duke University Press Books, p. 115Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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“I WAS HERE BUT I DISAPEAR”: Ivanhoe “Rhygin” martin and photographic disappearance in Jamaica
Thompson, K. A., Apr 3 2018, In: Art Journal. 77, 2, p. 80-99 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Scopus citations -
Afrotropes: A User's Guide
Copeland, H. & Thompson, K., Oct 2 2017, In: Art Journal. 76, 3-4, p. 7-9 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
4 Scopus citations -
The Black Body as Photographic Image: Video Light in Postcolonial Jamaica
Thompson, K. A., 2017, Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture. Raiford, L. & Raphael, H. (eds.). University of Washington PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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En Mas: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean
Tancons, C. (Editor) & Thompson, K. A., 2016, New Orleans, LA: Independent Curators International and Contemporary Art Center. 230 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book