Art history Ph.D. candidate Lynne Lee has been awarded the 2022-23 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Fellowship!
Lynne is one of two graduate students receiving the competitive fellowship awarded by the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) and the Departments of Anthropology and History as part of the 2022-2023 Mellon Sawyer Seminar entitled “Diasporic Cultures of Slavery: Engaging Disciplines, Engaging Communities.”
The seminar will “foster innovative approaches to diaspora cultures of slavery with attention to community engagement, physical spaces, and the materiality of social worlds in Texas, Ghana, Brazil and Jamaica. The seminar will explore the ways that scholarly engagement with the physical spaces of social, cultural, and political and economic performance can help us gain a better sense of how radicalization and its enactment(s) have shaped and have been shaped by the material content of African and African American social worlds. It will focus on the way that material worlds of historical African and African Diaspora communities have enduring meaning and power in the contemporary world.”
Lynne specializes in Afro-Brazilian modernism and its transatlantic network. More broadly, she is interested in Afro-Latin American art and the historiography of the reception of African art in Europe and the Americas.