Ariana Curtis is the first curator of Latinx Studies at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the current Director of Content for the Smithsonian’s Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past. As a Black Latina curator and researcher, she is committed to archiving the experiences of everyday Black people, particularly Black women, in Latin America, the U.S., and the Caribbean. In this presentation, Dr. Curtis will address the personal and professional impacts of her presence as a Black Latina anthropologist curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
All are welcome to register here for this online presentation via Zoom.
Co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience and the Department of Anthropology.