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Adrian Anagnost is an Associate Professor of Art History specializing in Modern & Contemporary Latin American art at Tulane University’s Newcomb Art Department, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies. His research focuses on art and urbanism in the Americas, with emphasis on Brazil, the U.S., and Atlantic networks. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Chicago.
Key research themes include vernacular architecture, informality, race in Brazilian modernism, performance as historical commemoration, pandemic-era design, and West African architectural history. His monograph Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil (Yale UP, 2022) explores urban art in Brazil. Current projects examine militarized ecologies in Louisiana’s Mississippi River delta region.
Notable publications span journals like RACAR, Design Issues, and Bloomberg CityLab, alongside exhibitions such as Looters: Itinerant Images of West African Architecture. Awards include an ACLS Fellowship (2019–2020) and Mellon Foundation funding for transnational place-based histories.
Teaching encompasses global contemporary art, Latin American modernism, and public art history. Courses include Art in 20th-Century Latin America and Performance & the Body in Contemporary Art. He actively advises graduate research on socially engaged art, museum studies, and urbanism.
