is Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she founded and served as the first director of the Center for Visual Cultures. A historian, theorist, and practicing artist, she is the author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (2005), Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (2015), and the edited collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (2014). Recent essays and articles have appeared in Women and Performance, TDR, the Journal of Visual Culture, Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean, The Philosophical Salon, and Architecture is All Over. She is currently completing the two-book project Form at the Edges of Life.