Dr. Kelli Morgan

Originally from Detroit, MI., Dr. Kelli Morgan earned her doctorate in Afro-American Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Public History – Museum Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). A critical race cultural historian, Morgan specializes in American art and visual culture. Her interdisciplinary research and curatorial work examines and theorizes the ways in which American artists, art objects, art history, and art institutions both challenge and reify the systemic mechanisms of anti-Blackness in the United States.