Kobena Mercer is a Professor or History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University. He previously taught at New York University and University of California at Santa Cruz. Mercer’s writes and teaches on the visual arts of the black diaspora, examining African American, Caribbean, and Black British artists in modern and contemporary art. His books include, Welcome to the Jungle (1994), and his work features in several interdisciplinary anthologies including Art and Its Histories (1998), The Visual Culture Reader (2001) and Theorizing Diaspora (2003). Mercer is the author of monographic studies on Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien, Renee Green, and Keith Piper, as well as historical studies of James VanDer Zee, Romare Bearden, and Adrian Piper. He is the editor of the Annotating Art’s Histories series, published by MIT and INIVA.He is currently working on an essay collection, Travel & See: Writings on Black Diaspora Art.