International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am an assistant professor of African American and Black Diasporic art with a joint appointment in the Departments of African American Studies and Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Before I became an art historian, I was a registered nurse and I worked in geriatric care, neurosurgery and community health in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. I was born in Sri Lanka and grew up there as well as Australia and New Zealand. My work now focuses on the relationship of art, material culture and histories of race and empire. But I am also working on the relationship of art and health, particularly within the context of imperial projects.