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Meet the Juror

Dr. Wendy Castenell is an Assistant Professor of African American Art in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Alabama. Her research interests include representations of race and ethnicity in American visual culture, portraiture, photography, early cinema, and turn-of-the-century spectacles.
 
Her first book, “Creole Identity in the Art of the American South: Louisiana from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction,” examines the ways in which portraiture was utilized by Louisiana’s caste of free people of color to create their collective identity and to secure their position amidst the shifting racial climate of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Louisiana. The book is forthcoming from Routledge. She has recently published an article from that research titled, “’The Louisiana Experiment’: Alcès Portraits and Afro-Creole Leadership during Reconstruction,” in the June 2020 edition of the online journal, Panorama.
 
Additional Resources:
University of Alabama faculty page