Adrian Anagnost

Adrian Anagnost is an art historian whose work focuses on embodiment, race, and the built environment in the Atlantic World. Anagnost is currently Associate Professor of Art History in the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University, core faculty for Tulane’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and a member of Tulane’s Brazilian Studies group.

Anagnost, who holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, an MA from Columbia University, and a BA from Oberlin College, recently published the book Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil (Yale University Press, 2022). In fall 2022, Anagnost concluded a co-led Mellon Sawyer Seminar on comparative sites of memory in the Americas, considering forms of public commemoration and place-based historical memory in settler-colonial, formerly slavery-fueled societies.