MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, Educator,
Curator & Author ofMarking Time - Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Dr. Nicole Fleetwood is an educator and author whose work explores Black cultural history, visual, media, and gender studies and mass incarceration. She earned her B.Phil from Miami University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Fleetwood is the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She has also been published in several scholarly journals, co/curated exhibitions on art and mass incarceration, and received prestigious grants and fellowships from the Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship, the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, and many more.