Temi Odumosu, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. She is an art historian and curator with an interdisciplinary approach to visual culture, information technology, artistic practice, and living archives. Her work interrogates the visual politics and legacies of colonialism, activates collections as sites of memory and conscience, and she collaborates with contemporary artists, designers, and curators to communicate unfinished histories more sensitively. Her current research and curation attends to Black archives and the question of well being, in particular considering the ethics of digitization and public display. Odumosu is author of the award-winning, Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes White Humour (2017) as well as journal articles, art essays, and book chapters in art history, anthropology, museum studies, digital humanities, cultural studies, and Scandinavian studies. She has curated major exhibitions centered on Afro-Diasporic histories and speculative futures in Sweden, Denmark, and the UK. Odumosu is a research partner and advisor within several interdisciplinary communities, including the Digital Benin project; Flickr Foundation; and the Center for Advances in Libraries, Archives and Museums at UW iSchool. She is also an advisory board member for the Slavery North Initiative at UMass Amherst. Odumosu holds a Ph.D. and Masters of Philosophy in Art History from the University of Cambridge, King’s College.
