Bridget R. CooksAssistant Professor, Art History Assistant Professor, African American Studies |
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Bridget R. Cooks joins the faculty at UCI with a joint appointment in the Department of Art History and African American Studies. Cooks' research focuses on African American art and culture, Black visual culture, museum criticism, film, feminist theory and post-colonial theory. In 2001 she earned her doctorate degree in the Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester. She has received a number of awards, grants and fellowships for her work including the prestigious Henry Luce Dissertation Fellowship in American Art in 2000. She has also curated several exhibitions of African American art at the de Saisset Museum. Prior to her appointment at UCI, she taught in the Department of Art and Art History and the Ethnic Studies program at Santa Clara University. She also served as museum educator for the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Some of her recent publications can be found in American Studies, Afterimage, Exposure, The International Review of American Art, African American Review, Studies (Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.), Pedagogy, and the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics. She is currently completing her first manuscript entitled, "Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum" |
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“Interview: Sheila Pree Bright” Exposure, Fall 2008 “Pictures of Home: The Work of Sheila Pree Bright” Afterimage, September/October 2008. |
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"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. |
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| Last updated | 04/29/2009 | |