C.C. McKee

C.C. McKee is Assistant Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. They received a dual doctorate from Northwestern University and the École des Hautes-Études en Sciences Sociales in 2019 and were a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen from 2022-24. Their research focuses on the intersections of art, colonialism, and natural science in the modern Atlantic World (c. 1750-1950) with an emphasis on the Caribbean. McKee also maintains an active curatorial practice, writes art criticism, and researches the exploration of colonialism and slavery’s injurious ecological “afterlives” in contemporary Caribbean and African Diasporic art. Their writing has appeared (or will appear) in Art Journal, liquid blackness, Small Axe, CASVA Seminar Papers, Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, Art Forum, and Hyperallergic.