Hilary Whitham Sánchez (PhD'21) is Assistant Professor of Art History at Purchase College SUNY

Hilary Whitham Sánchez (PhD'21) is Assistant Professor of Art History at Purchase College SUNY

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Hilary Whitham Sánchez joins the faculty as assistant professor of art history. Dr. Sánchez is an art historian, curator, and educator specializing in Afro-Atlantic material cultures. She holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and her work has been supported by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Mellon Foundation.

In 2015, Dr. Sánchez co-founded the nationally recognized Incubation Series, a Philadelphia-based contemporary curatorial training program. Her criticism has been published in ArtMargins and Title magazine. She is project co-lead, with Dr. Synatra Smith, for Philly Necro-Futures, an initiative combining art historical research with open access digital presentation of sub-Saharan African artworks in Philadelphia area collections. She is currently at work on her first book project, provisionally titled From Dada to Decolonization: The Idea of Africa and the Radical Past of Modernist Art.

“I am delighted to be joining the Purchase College intellectual community. The Art History department’s commitment to interrogating how we select our objects of study and craft our methods of inquiry resonates deeply with my teaching and research on the intellectual and material networks of exchange in Afro-Atlantic worlds. I’m also eager to work with colleagues at the Neuberger Museum of Art to reconceptualize the presentation of the notable African art collections.”