Monique Renee Scott

Monique Renee Scott serves as Associate Professor of History of Art and Director of Museum Studies at Bryn Mawr College, with affiliations in Africana Studies. She concurrently holds positions as Consulting Scholar for the Africa Section at the Penn Museum, Research Associate in Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, and member of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's African-American Collections Committee.

Dr. Scott earned her PhD in Anthropology from Yale University (2004) after a decade as head of cultural education at the American Museum of Natural History. Her research investigates how museum visitors interpret race and culture—particularly regarding African and diaspora representations—addressing colonial legacies in collections and anti-Black racism's institutional impacts. Recent work examines Philadelphia museums' historical African object displays.

Actively engaged in curation, Dr. Scott co-created the 2019 exhibition Colored People Time: Quotidian Pasts at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art and currently leads the Penn Museum's African galleries renovation. She advocates for critical race discourse through platforms including TEDxBrynMawrCollege and the American Anthropology Podcast.