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Maya Harakawa is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the African Diaspora in North America, particularly examining racial politics and placemaking in the postwar period. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Center CUNY (2022) and has held fellowships at the David C. Driskell Center, Schomburg Center, ACLS, and Getty Research Center.
Her current projects include a book on 1960s Harlem and a monograph on artist Benny Andrews. Her work intersects with Black Studies to challenge art history's Eurocentric frameworks, emphasizing methodologies that confront systemic racism. She co-founded the BIPOC Reader, an anti-racist pedagogical resource, and actively participates in academic unions (e.g., Faculty for Palestine at U of T, former CUNY delegate).
- Key Research Themes: Black radicalism, spatial politics, decolonizing art history
- Recent Publications: After the Renaissance (2025), Through and Against Abstraction (2025)
- Awards: Getty Research Center Fellowship (202?), ACLS Fellowship (202?)
Her advocacy extends beyond academia through cello performances with the Toronto Community Orchestra and activism around public education, prison abolition, and climate justice. She resides in Toronto with her two cats, Sandy and Keanu.
