Krista Thompson | |
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Title | Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor Professor in the Department of Art History |
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Institutions | Northwestern University |
Krista Thompson is an art historian. She serves as Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University.[1] Her work focuses on modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora, particularly the medium of photography.[1]
Thompson earned her PhD in 2002 from Emory University.[1]
In 2009 Thompson won the Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, recognizing "an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history."[2]