Bridget R. Cooks

Assistant Professor, Art History School of Humanities
Assistant Professor, African American Studies School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2001, Art History, Visual and Cultural Studies

338 Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 6850

Phone: (949) 824-1563
Email: b.cooks@uci.edu

Publications
“Interview: Sheila Pree Bright” Exposure, Fall 2008

“Pictures of Home: The Work of Sheila Pree Bright” Afterimage, September/October 2008.

"Permanent Collection: Increasing the Visibility of African American Art at a University Museum" Callaloo, 2008.

“Black Artists and Activism: Harlem on My Mind (1969)” American Studies 48:1, 2008.

“The Johnson Family: Visual Representations of African American Fairgoers, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893” Patterns of Prejudice, 41:5, 2007.

“Confronting Terrorism: Teaching the History of Lynching through Photography”. Pedagogy 7.1: January 2007.

Revised version reprinted in Teaching Race in the 21st Century: College Teachers Talk
About Their Fears, Risks, and Rewards, Editor, Lisa Guerrero (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008), forthcoming.

“Confronting Terrorism: Teaching the History of Lynching through Photography,” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Strange Fruit: Lynching, Visuality, Empire: Issue #21: Fall 2006.

“Pan-Africanism in African American Visual Arts: Where have we been? Where are we going?” The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics. Volume 2:2. July 2006.

“Adrienne Pao: Beyond the Paradise” Exposure. Spring 2006.

“Romare Bearden: On View” Studies in the History of Art: Romare Bearden, American Modernist. Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, (CASVA) Volume 71, XLVIII. National Gallery of Art, 2006.

“Museums” entry for the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (EAACH). December 2005.

“Lorna Simpson: The Portrait of Refusal” Fotophile 46. Winter 2004.

“Snapshots: Brief Takes on Rising Talents” International Review of African American Art 2003. Volume 19:2

"New/Now/Next: A Survey of Rising Talent” International Review of African American Art 2003. Volume 18:1

“The Black Female Body: A Photographic History” book review. African American Review. September/October, 2003. Volume 37:2.