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Portrait of Shelby Sinclair

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Shelby Sinclair

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and History at the University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

Shelby Sinclair is a historian of the 19th and 20th century United States and Caribbean. She specializes in histories of the U.S. empire, military occupation, gender, and visual culture in the Caribbean and its diasporas. Her current book project explores Haitian women’s lives and labors during the 19-year U.S. military occupation of Haiti (1915–1934). (Photo Credit: Raisa Chowdhury).

Event

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Widline Cadet: Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance) Conversation

Contemporary Arts Center

Kristen Gaylord and Shelby Sinclair

Opening Program · biennial program · talk

Details

Conversation with Widline Cadet: Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance) Curator Kristen Gaylord, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; and Shelby Sinclair, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and History at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Communication A ccess Realtime Translation (CART) is provided

Artists: Widline Cadet

Cost: Free to Biennial Pass Holders

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